Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!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) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:07:03 -0500 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <5d44fdbc894a42bcf56d5ffea203f70be805686a@i2pn2.org> References: <494bfd3b-3c70-4d8d-9c70-ce917c15fc22@att.net> <72142d82-0d71-460a-a1be-cadadf78c048@att.net> <812e64b1-c85c-48ac-a58c-e8955bc02f8c@att.net> <22b74adc-bf38-4aa4-a44f-622f0a2a5c41@att.net> <77a1069f5c5b8f95927ed9a33ecc6374c9d0a2dd@i2pn2.org> <20e517f6-d709-46fd-83f8-04c6b4fe9f59@tha.de> <4679319ea238a03fb042ae0c4de078c1a310c8a5@i2pn2.org> <320edbb95673eb535f81c16a471811fef7d0f752@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:07:04 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="327958"; 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: 3736 Lines: 54 On 1/20/25 7:33 AM, WM wrote: > On 19.01.2025 14:29, FromTheRafters wrote: >> WM formulated the question : >>> On 19.01.2025 11:42, FromTheRafters wrote: >>>> WM presented the following explanation : >>>>> On 18.01.2025 12:03, joes wrote: >>>>>> Am Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:56:13 +0100 schrieb WM: >>>>> >>>>>>> Correct. If infinity is potential. set theory is wrong. >>>>>> And that is why set theory doesn't talk about "potential infinity". >>>>> >>>>> Nevertheless it uses potential infinity. >>>> >>>> No, it doesn't. >>> >>> Use all natnumbers individually such that none remains. Fail. >> >> This makes no sense. > > It is impossible. Because logic that insists on dealing with an INFINITE set one by one is illogical except for a being that is itself INFINITE and thus capable of INFINITE action. >> >>>>> All "bijections" yield the same cardinality because only the >>>>> potentially infinite parts of the sets are  applied. >>>> >>>> No, it is because these bijections show that some infinite sets' >>>> sizes can be shown to be equal even if no completed count exists. >>> >>> They appear equal because no completed count exists. >> >> No, they are the same size when it is shown there is at least one >> bijection. > > Every element of the bijection has almost all elements as successors. > Therefore the bijection is none. Nope, the logic that can't see the completion at infinity is broken. > >>> All natnumbers in bijections have ℵ₀ not applied successors. >>> ∀n ∈ ℕ_def: |ℕ \ {1, 2, 3, ..., n}| = ℵo >>> Only potential infinity is applied. >> >> You mean that only finite sets are involved. > > Of course Infinitely many successors prevent that their predecessors are > infinitely many. > > Regards, WM >