Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: WM Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: The set of necessary FISONs Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2025 17:39:51 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <4d349964-211f-42f1-936f-81c22ae54cb5@att.net> <6e0c8ab2-402a-43a5-a348-0c727eae6a2e@att.net> <87e2e677c7802c9c17df6063f340cb5857d5700b@i2pn2.org> <680d4249c9bf1504231a53732ac5096184261495@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2025 17:39:53 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0b61c921f548c8a7036541134defb832"; logging-data="776498"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19zRYqaxTf5ZOCpJL/RAbCFGTNL2HZfXUo=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:O/jWXPGkhzXd9QJlVa11/iDkIHk= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2853 On 02.02.2025 14:47, joes wrote: > Am Sun, 02 Feb 2025 12:43:49 +0100 schrieb WM: >> On 02.02.2025 05:55, joes wrote: >>> Am Sat, 01 Feb 2025 19:23:29 +0100 schrieb WM: >> >>> Induction proves a sentence for every number, not for the set. >>> You cannot extend a sentence about numbers to sets. >> But to all numbers. > No, to *a* number, though which is arbitrary. Not to a *set* of numbers. Mathematical induction is a method for proving that a statement P(n) is true for every natural number n that is, that the infinitely many cases P(0),P(1),P(2),P(3),... all hold. [Wikipedia] >> Peano does not describe the set ℕ? > N is not a natural number. Not described by the Peano axioms? > >> Anyhow all natural numbers n and all A(n) are discarded. > No, there are more than any finite number. Name one? Regards, WM