Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!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 Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:50:22 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 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: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:50:24 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8cb16b437f3efafb0eb1892e9ae812c7"; logging-data="1157989"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/qMkKOjz+6srYCAeZsERZ0nES7qN/yrJQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:LdG+8P841UkkTLYq2MCI+XscmKw= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2262 On 16.12.2024 10:43, Mikko wrote: > On 2024-12-15 11:05:48 +0000, WM said: > >> 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. > > There is no time in mathematics. Nothing happens. In particular, nothing > comes into being. Then your sentence "Yes, but not before another interval hits the cursor." is false. Regards, WM >