Re: what makes it true?

Torkel Franzen wrote:
> Timothy Little <tim-usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> "The" natural numbers being defined as...?
>
> 0,1,2, and so on.

I'd consider transfinite induction to be a perfectly reasonable "and
so on" in some contexts, but I doubt that's what you meant. Care to
narrow it down a bit more?


- Tim
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