Re: infinity

stephen@xxxxxxxxxx said:
> Tony Orlow (aeo6) <aeo6@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > stephen@xxxxxxxxxx said:
> >> If you are content to call a set that never ends finite, then
> >> your understanding of finite and infinite makes no sense to me.
> > If you are content to claim that adding 1 an infinite number of times yields a
> > finite sum,
>
> Well, I do not claim that. It is only your hopeless obsession
> with largest elements that makes you think anyone other than
> you has claimed that.
>
> But you do claim that unending sets are finite. I think
> that finishes this.
>
> Stephen
>
Because you claim that values that increase without bound are all finite. That
is the root issue here, remember?
--
Smiles,

Tony
.

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