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From: WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de>
Newsgroups: sci.logic
Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:04:22 +0100
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On 22.12.2024 13:28, Richard Damon wrote:
> On 12/21/24 4:40 PM, WM wrote:

>> The reason is that after every visible unit fraction there are more 
>> visible unit fractions created. That is potential infinity. You can't 
>> understand that matter.
> 
> No, they are not "created" they have always been there, they just 
> haven't been enumerated/discovered yet.

Why haven't they?
>>> The numbers didn't just show up, they were always there and we didn't 
>>> do anything that prohibited it from stopping at any of them.
>>
>> They were dark.
> 
> No, you just didn't see them because your logic closes its eyes and lies 
> to you.

Then show me a unit fraction that you see for the first time when going 
from 0 to 1 which has no smaller unit fractions that you hadn't 
discovered before.

Regards, WM