Re: Cantorian pseudomathematics
Jesse F. Hughes wrote:
Anyway, I haven't seen Jaynes argue that countable sets are
illegitimate mathematical objects, but that doing probabilities on
infinite sets is tricky business.
Do you have any actual quote in which he says that infinite sets ought
to be banished from mathematics?
No. That's one step further. And _actual_ infinite sets, to be precise.
Han de Bruijn
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