Re: Cantor Confusion

In article <vOjTg.25590$QT.1504@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Poker Joker" <Poker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Alan Morgan" <amorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:efkegr$6d9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

if its true for ANY list, then it must be
true for a specific list. So if considering a single specific list
shows a flaw, then looking at ANY (ALL of them) list doesn't
help.

But if it's true for ANY list then it must be true for a specific
list. So if considering a single specific list shows a flaw then
perhaps that list doesn't really exist.

That's true, but that's not the entire story.

It is in mathematics. Once a proof for any list is established, it
covers every list.

Suppose I claim that I have a list that contains all the reals.

Such claims, without supporting proofs, are to worth the electrons Joker
used to post them.

You claim you can take that list and construct a real not
on the list. You procede to show the construction. I would
claim that your construction is flawed

Again, such claims, as that of having a list of all reals, are worthless
without evidence, and Joker has shown that his word is damned poor
evidence.
.

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