Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Damon Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary, effectively) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 07:47:31 -0500 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <171d790a8a99fa28e5b849e2726d1c9c0f93d932@i2pn2.org> References: <3d2fe306aa299bc78e94c14dadd21645d8db9829@i2pn2.org> <2163aa0c0efba66c813e8ebda5ef5ece6d19ea34@i2pn2.org> <4d797c9134ea480aa4976cf866cacaede8d309bd@i2pn2.org> <1e8ebc58a12fd659e38d0b9f0ff6fc0194f933be@i2pn2.org> <9a25e92033e0a4d24e9c27df0de95d8b033d0862@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 12:47:32 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2128180"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="diqKR1lalukngNWEqoq9/uFtbkm5U+w3w6FQ0yesrXg"; User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2772 Lines: 22 On 1/5/25 5:31 AM, WM wrote: > On 04.01.2025 11:59, joes wrote: >> Am Sat, 04 Jan 2025 09:52:08 +0100 schrieb WM: >>> On 04.01.2025 05:06, Richard Damon wrote: >>>> On 1/3/25 12:15 PM, WM wrote: >>> >>>>> Every union of FISONs which stay below a certain threshold stays below >>>>> that threshold. >>>> Every union of a finite number of FISONs is just an admssion that you >>>> can't do the actual union of *ALL* FISONs. >>> For all FISONs:|ℕ \ {1, 2, 3, ..., n}| = ℵo. >> But not for the union. > > What should make the union larger than all FISONs? > > Every union of FISONs which stay below a certain threshold stays belown > that threshold. > > Regards, WM > Because you never actually USED *ALL* FISONs, and don't understand the power that infinite sets have, because you are just proving your stupidity.