Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: WM Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions? Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 11:33:02 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <283c426f-ab1c-4ef0-a06c-1bf7d28a2cfa@att.net> <6b50a171-8127-4ce6-9bd3-2dc213638e9b@att.net> <519db81b-4a4d-417d-8cd2-7fef5a342efd@att.net> <6704347e-2f99-40f2-887f-de93f6fdd659@tha.de> <8b3e744d-3419-40c3-a7c6-fe59edd528a9@tha.de> <851e9929-8ab7-49d1-b478-e65c61fba2e3@att.net> <78a0f795-f1c0-4ba5-90f9-acf667968011@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 11:33:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f4b38fa814833d08fac49dd116a99714"; logging-data="193458"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/zE5uw3f0VZjVcpXP8U1kHUNDJBdGbxTo=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:kXdC1XN/066suWfJ0rQkUgxHpMQ= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3317 On 04.10.2024 10:11, joes wrote: > Am Thu, 03 Oct 2024 20:31:41 +0200 schrieb WM: >> On 02.10.2024 23:06, Jim Burns wrote: >>> On 10/2/2024 7:10 AM, WM wrote: >> >>> You (WM) believe in quantifier shifts, >>> the opposite of that. >> I believe that if every n that can be chosen has ℵ₀ successors, then all >> n that can be chosen have ℵ₀ successors. Proof by your inability to >> contradict this. > That is not the same thing, but an invalid deduction. It is fact. What you believe valid or invalid is not of interest to me. I know that all numbers which you can choose have ℵ₀ successors. Therefore the collection containing all numbers which you can choose has ℵ₀ successors. >>>> 1, 2, 3, ..., ω-2, ω-1, ω >>> ...is a _finite_ sequence. >>> As you have written it, >>> ω and each non.0 α < ω has a predecessor, >>> which makes ω finite. >> The predecessors in the dark realm cannot be known. You can subtract >> every natural number from ω without traversing the dark realm. You can >> add every natural number to every natural number without traversing the >> dark realm. That is the essence of infinity! > No, the infinity is at the end, not in the middle. A common misbelief about actual infinity based on potential infinity. Regards, WM