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From: WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de>
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: The reality of sets, on a scale of 1 to 10 [Was: The
 non-existence of "dark numbers"]
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:55:40 +0100
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On 23.03.2025 20:39, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> You did not, in your
> voluminous post, cite any indication of a _use_ of "potentially
> infinite", only some philosophising about it.

Have you not read Hilbert and Cantor? In analysis potential infinity and 
only it is used.

In fact all meaningful and correct applications of infinity in 
mathematics concern potential infinity, because actual infinity either 
is a chimera only or it is dark and therefore cannot be manipulated and 
applied in mathematics.

Regards, WM