Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Moebius Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: The reality of sets, on a scale of 1 to 10 [Was: The non-existence of "dark numbers"] Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 01:06:42 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 8 Message-ID: References: <9e0c7e728f7de44e13450d7401fe65d36c5638f3@i2pn2.org> Reply-To: invalid@example.invalid MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 01:06:43 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="747e250df82755ae28beac46e5ac4119"; logging-data="492897"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+5gjK88AeTLxRTUGk/QveC" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:qh7lZOjp6Eu0zM67I6ZW0heSdqk= Content-Language: de-DE In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1876 Am 26.03.2025 um 00:39 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > WM wrote: > What everybody else refers to as infinte, you seem to want to call > "potentially infinite". Actually, it's rather the other way round. WM has a tendency to call things "potentially infinite" which everyone else would call "finite".