Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!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 non-existence of "dark numbers" Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 23:21:30 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <887b3762-34e3-400b-b234-f09ca9547266@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 23:21:30 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6f9f26c81ac23d253c44dec1578e707c"; logging-data="1849289"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+jyaN0o8jkiDP3AQvOXe0HCddeyMuWjvk=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZJjfV4R6FqsWlijcQFRwwzbGUos= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2987 On 19.03.2025 21:15, joes wrote: > Am Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:30:27 +0100 schrieb WM: >> I use Cantor's ℕ which is larger than all its inductive subsets. > It can't be larger. It contains nothing apart from the inductive set. Cantor thought so too, but both of you are in error. Proof: UF = ℕ ==> Ø = ℕ. > >>>> Obviously >>> Please prove that it is obvious. >> >> For Cantor's ℕ we have: >> |ℕ \ {1}| = ℵo |ℕ \ {1, 2, 3, ..., n}| = ℵo ==> >> |ℕ \ {1, 2, 3, ..., n+1}| = ℵo >> >> All FISONs fail to empty ℕ when applied one after the other. > Awful wording. Correct description of mathematical facts.> >> All FISONs fail to empty ℕ when applied at once, because mathematics is >> not time-dependent. > Only you haven't "applied" all of them. When applied one after the other, all FISONs fail. Therefore they also fail when being applied at once. > That would be > N \ {1, 2, 3, ...} You cannot believe in mathematics? Then try another occupation. Regards, WM