Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: sci.logic,sci.math Subject: Re: Replacement of Cardinality Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:15:35 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <6c471296-90b8-4cf7-bc9b-480bd34ef190@att.net> <1f25a3d6-7b0e-476d-aa99-ecb003cf763f@att.net> <75e2ce0e-7df8-4266-968b-9c58e4140b03@att.net> <35d8c0a1-dab3-4c15-8f24-068e8200cb07@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 21:15:35 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4a84523421f9ce4759d9517bc1f63aca"; logging-data="49329"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/xavencilXffeIEJF2fzK7VFOJyADPtTk=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:W2SOh6dtgzeSoqkTyKamTFryUq4= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2276 On 8/13/2024 12:10 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: > On 8/13/2024 7:17 AM, WM wrote: >> Le 12/08/2024 à 19:23, Richard Damon a écrit : >>> On 8/12/24 9:50 AM, WM wrote: >> >>>>> What causes an exception: nₓ ∈ ℕ: >>>>> ⅟nₓ > 0 without ⅟(nₓ+1) > 0 ? >>>> >>>> The end of the positive axis. >>> >>> Which, by the definition of the Natural Numbers, doesn't exist. >> >> The end of the positive axis exists. > > Nope. Just like there is no end to the negative x axis. Oh, there is no > end to the y axis as well. The z axis, the w axis, on and on wrt n-ary > axes... :^) > Well, let me add a correction: (...)<--(-1)<--(-0+)-->(+1)-->(...) So, there is an "end" wrt the transition from positive to negative at zero. Sorry about that.