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: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:58:51 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <0b8644b2-7027-420e-b187-8214daaf9e3b@att.net> Reply-To: invalid@example.invalid MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:58:52 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7abac922a83adfaffc5dae97430186bb"; logging-data="178268"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ib15Dr9Joa/Y78II4/5FW" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:u9DYDMUk3r+7rx8Nnz0n8UKUt/o= Content-Language: de-DE In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2147 Am 22.03.2025 um 15:44 schrieb Moebius: > Am 22.03.2025 um 15:04 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: >> WM wrote: > >>> It leaves the cardinality unchanged because this notion is tantamount >>> to potential infinity. >> >> You're stuck in the 1880s. > > Nope. Actually, his claim ist absurd nonsense. Es handelt sich bei WM um > einen aufmerksamkeitsheischenden, geisteskranker Spinner. Hint: (a) Sets have /cardinality/. (b) There are no "potentially infinity" sets. Either a set is infinite or not (i.e. finite).