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From: FromTheRafters <FTR@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary)
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 06:21:20 -0500
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Moebius wrote :
> Am 03.01.2025 um 02:37 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson:
>> On 1/2/2025 5:43 AM, FromTheRafters wrote:
>>> WM used his keyboard to write :
>>>> On 01.01.2025 15:47, FromTheRafters wrote:
>>>>> WM wrote :
>>>>
>>>>>> The [set] of [...] natural numbers [...] is closed under 
>>>>>> multiplication. (WM)
>
> Indeed!
>
> For all n,m e IN: n*m e IN.
>
> Mückenheim is the master!
>
>>>>> How can that be? (From the After)
>
> Well, it's a simple fact which can be proved (based on the Peano Axioms and 
> the definition of * on IN).

I'm aware of that fact, but WM's "definable" naturals are supposedly a 
finite subset of the naturals -- which are not an infinite set, which 
makes either his statement wrong or his notion of growing finite 
subsets wrong.

> Nonsense.
>
>>> Easy, he stood on a chair. (From the After)
>
> He? WM?
>
>> lol! ;^)
>
> Sorry, but I'm lost.

A punchline from an old non-joke.

'Did you hear about the man who could lick his own forehead?'
'No, how is that even possible?'
'Easy, he stood on a chair.'

Basically, it was just nonsense meaning his response was 
non-responsive.