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From: WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de>
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: The non-existence of "dark numbers"
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:50:08 +0100
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On 21.03.2025 21:41, FromTheRafters wrote:
> WM pretended :
>> On 21.03.2025 18:39, Jim Burns wrote:
>>> On 3/21/2025 3:50 AM, WM wrote:
>>>> On 20.03.2025 23:25, Jim Burns wrote:
>>>
>>>>> For sets not.having a WM.size,
>>>>> Bob vanishing isn't a size.change.
>>>>
>>>> Only if reducing isn't reducing.
>>>
>>> What you (WM) think is reducing
>>> isn't reducing.
>>
>> You confuse the clear fact that in the reality of sets vanishing means 
>> reducing with the foolish claim that cardinality was a meaningful notion.
>>
>> Learn that even Cantor has accepted that the positive numbers have 
>> more reality than the even positive numbers. He said that is not in 
>> conflict with the identical cardinality of both sets. And he was 
>> right! "Counable" is simply another name for potential infinity.
>>
>> Therefore vanishing odd numbers means reducing the reality of the set.
>>
>> Therefore the sentence "What you (WM) think is reducing isn't 
>> reducing" exhibits you as a snooty dilettante who cannot distinguish 
>> between cardinality and reality.
> 
> What does reality have to do with it?

Reality describes that fact that proper subsets have fewer elements than 
sets. Cardinality describes the fact that potential infinity never can 
be finished.

Regards, WM