Re: Problems I have with 1.999...=2

On 10 May 2005 12:52:56 -0700, Hero wrote:
> I accept Your logical statements, so accepting defeat.
> But still i have objections to Your claim:
>>Surreal numbers and infinitesimals are not outside standard logic(end
> citation),
> as Proginoskes is constructing them out of the property of the elements
> of the empty set.

He is constructing them from the empty set (not from the elements of the
empty set, since it doesn't have elements). Doesn't that construction
convince you that the surreals are not outside standard logic? Suppose
he couldn't construct them? Wouldn't *that* show that they are outside
standard logic?


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