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From: Richard Damon <richard@damon-family.org>
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Subject: Re: how
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 22:08:39 -0400
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On 4/25/24 3:51 PM, WM wrote:
> Le 24/04/2024 à 20:08, FromTheRafters a écrit :
>> WM explained :
>>> Le 24/04/2024 à 12:49, FromTheRafters a écrit :
>>>> Richard Damon wrote :
>>>
>>>>> Of course, if you logic tries to make that transfinite value finite 
>>>>> because that is all it can handle, your system just blows up in 
>>>>> your face.
>>>>
>>>> IMO, it might be best not to think of it as a value at all.
>>>
>>> Cantor called it a number.
>>
>> A number representing an order type.
> 
> like 2 or 5.
> 
> Regards, WM

No, because 2 or 5 were FINITE numbers, not transfinite numbers.

Transfinite numbers act differently if they are ordinals or cardinal 
numbers, which your logic just doesn't understand.