Re: Galileo's Paradox

On 11/30/2006 1:32 PM, Bob Kolker wrote:
Eckard Blumschein wrote:


Uncountable means: Counting is impossible. This property obviously
belongs to fictitious elements of continuum. There is simply too much of
them. So counting is not feasible. As long as one looks at a finite,
just potentially infinite heap of single integers, one has to do with
individuals. The set of all integers is something else. It is a fiction.
It is to be thought constituted of an uncountable amount of
non-elementary elements. Well this looks nonsensical. There is indeed a
selfcontradiction within the notion of an infinite set.
Non-elementary means not having a distinct numerical address. Element
means "exactly defined by an impossible task".

Have you forgotten to take your meds again?

Element should read "element of IR"


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