Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Damon Newsgroups: sci.logic Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 07:52:16 -0500 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <539edbdf516d69a3f1207687b802be7a86bd3b48@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 12:52:16 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2973922"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="diqKR1lalukngNWEqoq9/uFtbkm5U+w3w6FQ0yesrXg"; User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2037 Lines: 23 On 12/15/24 6:05 AM, WM wrote: > On 15.12.2024 11:49, Mikko wrote: >> On 2024-12-14 15:46:04 +0000, WM said: >> >>> On 14.12.2024 12:06, joes wrote: > >>>> They are ALREADY there. >>> >>> Therefore they cannot appear after the cursor has passed their >>> positions. Every interval and every end of an interval would be hit >>> by the cursor. >> >> Yes, but not before another interval hits the cursor. > > You believe that only afterwards the first interval comes into being? > That is not the infinity used in set theory. > > Regards, WM > There is no "next", only before or after in dense sets. Next is a property of directly indexed sets, like the naturals, which don't have a "last", even in complete actual infinity.