Re: Relative Cardinality



Virgil wrote:
> In article <85pstqcwtx.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Virgil <ITSnetNOTcom#virgil@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > All numbers are ideas, it is just that mathematics calls more ideas
> > > numbers than WM does.
> >
> > Actually, it doesn't. The numbers that mathematics can call by name
> > (namely computable numbers) are countable. The unnamed numbers make
> > up the dark matter in the mathematicians' universe: when they gang up
> > together, they have weight and measure.
>
> Let me rephrase it:
>
> Mathematicians call a lot of things numbers that WM doesn't

, because they are not numbers, because they cannot be compared by
magnitude (at least, when compared, they do not supply a result).

Regards, WM

.

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