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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: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:36:30 +0100
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On 26.03.2025 01:14, Moebius wrote:
> Am 26.03.2025 um 01:06 schrieb Moebius:
>> Am 26.03.2025 um 00:39 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
>>> WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de> wrote:
>>
>>> What everybody else refers to as infinte, you seem to want to call
>>> "potentially infinite".
>>
>> Actually, it's rather the other way round. WM has a tendency to call 
>> things "potentially infinite" which everyone else would call "finite".
> 
> It seems that he recently recognised this himself, leading to the absurd
> phrase
> 
>                     potentially (in-)finite <so-and-so>  (WM)

No! The correct phrase is (potentially in-)finite.
> (You won't find such a the notion ANYWHERE ... else.)

yet.

Regards, WM