Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!news.building-m.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: WM Newsgroups: sci.logic Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:15:38 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <6d0d8060-fb60-4da6-bcdb-adc13a6179b0@att.net> <93c53518-55f8-4dca-aa3c-3e79ef268963@att.net> <9e03d68c-ae1e-4e2f-8004-55e6f89adb98@att.net> <96af151c-285d-4161-842a-63019cac9699@att.net> <09f8a86f-3f75-4af8-a190-0def76c1ab82@att.net> <68dc9b71-cf5d-4614-94e2-8a616e722a63@att.net> <67d9867b-2614-4475-975c-938bafca5c00@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:15:39 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="36e848b1ea84f533807175e4aa00d478"; logging-data="3768463"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18sGy/ZeWUlY4bGzX6v8IQIdFzQHsky35U=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:GEfAKwLv3KWSuWw+V1mUhufyNC4= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2555 On 26.11.2024 19:49, Jim Burns wrote: > There are no last end.segments of ℕᶠⁱⁿ > There are no finitely.sized end segments of ℕᶠⁱⁿ > There are no finite cardinals common to >  each end.segment of ℕᶠⁱⁿ That is a contradiction. If there are no common numbers, then all numbers must have been lost. But then no numbers are remaining. Then there are finite endsegments because ∀k ∈ ℕ: |E(k+1)| = |E(k)| - 1. Regards, WM