Re: infinity


W. Dale Hall wrote:
> 2. http://www.math.psu.edu/melvin/logic/node12.html
>
> which says:
>
> # Any property which belongs to 1 and also to the successor of
> any number which has it belongs to all numbers.
>
> The author expands on this, a bit clumsily:
>
> Peano is using here a somewhat antiquated language about
> properties. We translate his word property to mean set and
> we say that a number belongs to a set rather than a set
> belonging to a number.
>

That's an interesting twist.

Cheers - Chas

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