Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: joes Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:07:11 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <0b1bb1a1-40e3-464f-9e3d-a5ac22dfdc6f@tha.de> <95183b4d9c2e32651963bac79965313ad2bfe7e8@i2pn2.org> <33512b63716ac263c16b7d64cd1d77578c8aea9d@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:07:11 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3280967"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="nS1KMHaUuWOnF/ukOJzx6Ssd8y16q9UPs1GZ+I3D0CM"; User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Bytes: 2639 Lines: 17 Am Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:28:52 +0100 schrieb WM: > On 16.12.2024 11:23, Mikko wrote: >> On 2024-12-15 11:33:15 +0000, WM said: > >>> We cannot name dark numbers as individuals. >> We needn't. The axioms of natural numbers ensure that every natural >> number has a successor, > The set, i.e. all numbers together, has no successor. It is not even in a sequence. How does that matter? >> If that is not possible then there are no natural numbers. > That is not possible for an actually infinite set. It is only possible > for numbers coming into being. You misunderstood: Mikko was naming the axioms of the naturals. -- Am Sat, 20 Jul 2024 12:35:31 +0000 schrieb WM in sci.math: It is not guaranteed that n+1 exists for every n.