Re: Uncountable sets
- From: The World Wide Wade <aderamey.addw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:15:07 -0700
In article <1185079000.688698.217340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Proginoskes <CCHeckman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 21, 10:18 pm, S J Kissane <skiss...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi
My intuition says that uncountable sets do not exist. I have no
problem with the existence of aleph-null; I just have a problem with
the existence of anything bigger. Is there a name for this intuition?
Yes, around here it's called "being an anti-Cantor crank".
Many "anti-Cantor" mathematicians - and certainly they are not all
cranks - allow for the existence of uncountable sets.
.
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