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From: Moebius <invalid@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The reality of sets, on a scale of 1 to 10
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:13:05 +0100
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Am 22.03.2025 um 21:07 schrieb Moebius:
> Am 22.03.2025 um 09:34 schrieb Ralf Bader:
>> On 03/21/2025 11:15 PM, Moebius wrote:
>>> Am 21.03.2025 um 22:25 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
>>
>>>> What was the context of this quote?  Was it a letter to a fellow
>>>> mathematician, or a in a published work, or what?
>>>
>>> I really don't know (can't tell).
>>
>> It is from
>> 4. Mitteilungen zur Lehre vom Transfiniten. VIII Nr. 7/8. 417
>> (the header of page 417 in his Gesammelte Abhandlungen)
> 
>> Where did you take this quote from?

You can find it here:
https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN237853094?tify=%7B%22pages%22%3A%5B429%5D%2C%22pan%22%3A%7B%22x%22%3A0.491%2C%22y%22%3A0.708%7D%2C%22view%22%3A%22info%22%2C%22zoom%22%3A0.454%7D

> IIRC, I've once seen it in one of WM's posts.
> 
> I guess, one of these is the original source:
> 
> Mitteilungen zur Lehre vom Transfiniten. 1. Zeitschrift für Philosophie 
> und philosophische Kritik 91 (1887), S. 81 − 125 und 252 − 270.
> 
> Mitteilungen zur Lehre vom Transfiniten. 2. Zeitschrift für Philosophie 
> und philosophische Kritik 92 (1888), S. 240 − 265.
> 
> Nuff said (concerning the context). :-P