Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: WM Newsgroups: sci.logic Subject: Re: Simple enough for every reader? Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 20:46:02 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: <100fu9b$1oqf5$2@dont-email.me> References: <100a8ah$ekoh$1@dont-email.me> <878qmt1qz6.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <100dph6$17uss$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 20:46:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f03bf24ea76c7f186b2b0e62e98ef69b"; logging-data="1862117"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18qRStJvdzEd7s9RTcsgfIhsSxgqCZIb08=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:0Tmgri8npDFJC3y1pV/iG3M6RrU= In-Reply-To: <100dph6$17uss$1@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US On 19.05.2025 01:12, olcott wrote: > On 5/18/2025 5:41 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> WM writes: >> >>> Are you aware of the fact that in >>> >>> {1} >>> {1, 2} >>> {1, 2, 3} >>> ... >>> {1, 2, 3, ..., n} >>> ... >>> >>> up to every n infinitely many natural numbers of the whole set >>> >>> {1, 2, 3, ...} >>> >>> are missing? Infinitely many of them will never be mentioned >>> individually. They are dark. >> >> Presumably you are aware that for every n in ℕ, n will be mentioned in >> infinitely many such sets?  They are bathed in light. >> >> Do they still let you teach this stuff? >> > > Clearly you do not understand that any > action that takes an infinite amount of > time will never be completed. There is > always some n in ℕ that no one ever > got around to mentioning. Correct. And simple. Regards, WM >