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From: FromTheRafters <FTR@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions? (infinitary)
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 10:09:24 -0400
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joes wrote :
> Am Sat, 19 Oct 2024 11:24:54 +0200 schrieb WM:
>> On 18.10.2024 03:26, Richard Damon wrote:
>>> On 10/17/24 2:46 PM, WM wrote:
>>>> On 17.10.2024 02:18, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>> On 10/16/24 1:18 PM, WM wrote:
>
>>> It is proven that the set of Natural Numbers are closed under
>>> multiplication.
>> That is not the set but the potentially infinite collection of Peano
>> numbers.
> Same thing. The set of natural numbers is infinite, whether actual or
> potential. What is a "collection"?

It's one of his weasel words for insinuating 'potential infinity' where 
it does not belong.