Re: what makes it true?

From: grubb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Daniel Grubb)
Date: 8 Sep 2005 14:00:33 GMT

>> "The" natural numbers being defined as...?

> 0,1,2, and so on.

Outside of *some* formal system, I don't know what 'and so on'
means. Could you elucidate?

--Dan Grubb
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