Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: WM Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: 2N=E Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:24:08 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 61 Message-ID: References: <29ce40e9-f18a-44d4-84d9-23e587cf9dea@att.net> <2b6f9104-a927-49ee-9cf0-6ee3f82edc23@att.net> <22f95ff7-c361-4d8a-943c-1df76abb98cc@att.net> <9c55eda1-bb24-44ae-9158-2a3b354170cd@att.net> <4ce512c0-8196-4923-9a6b-359c25fdfa3a@att.net> <8418a2e3-bba2-43b4-8c77-3e947a270476@att.net> <6c56b6df33cedd35cac468735501d2d89ad19048@i2pn2.org> <9e98e573c0368690d336299ab78121c3240aa8e7@i2pn2.org> <351593f2-200c-4df5-a93f-9362b8b2bf91@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:24:09 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="36900b51e1cfb43ad4bea59386c6c58b"; logging-data="1692201"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+qHuYgRJdoX7yqT2n6YH/iqWA7RuvYyns=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:VVSvdcuIbKSAtZ9BN5AoWIrjm4Y= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <351593f2-200c-4df5-a93f-9362b8b2bf91@att.net> Bytes: 3495 On 22.10.2024 19:24, Jim Burns wrote: > On 10/22/2024 10:11 AM, WM wrote: >>> The numbers ARE fixed, >>> there are just inf. many of them. >> >> All of them are multiplied by 2. >> >>> The larger numbers have already all been "created". >> >> Not before multiplying them. > > "Creation" of these numbers > is confusingly imagined to be > creation of these numbers. These numbers did not belong to the set when it was multiplied. > > These numbers are described by axioms. By axiom also all numbers of the set are present and available to be multiplied. > > Claims (axioms) are made which are true of > each of these numbers, which can be multiplied. > No number starts or stops > being described by those axioms. The set is complete when its numbers are multiplied. > In that sense, > no number starts or stops > existing. > No number enters or exits > the domain of discourse those axioms describe. All numbers which are described are in the set when being multiplied. > > In this discussion, > the numbers being.described.by.those.axioms > == the numbers existing > include, for each such number, double that number. Of course. But all these are multiplied. > > The numbers and their doubles > always were/will.be being.described.by.those.axioms > always were/will.be existing. They are existing when multiplied. > > We cannot perform supertasks like > counting infinitely.many. But we can use all existing numbers, for instance for mappings. Regards, WM