Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FromTheRafters Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary) Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:01:16 -0500 Organization: Peripheral Visions Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <98519289-0542-40ce-886e-b50b401ef8cf@att.net> <8e95dfce-05e7-4d31-b8f0-43bede36dc9b@att.net> <53d93728-3442-4198-be92-5c9abe8a0a72@att.net> <9c18a839-9ab4-4778-84f2-481c77444254@att.net> <8ef20494f573dc131234363177017bf9d6b647ee@i2pn2.org> <66868399-5c4b-4816-9a0c-369aaa824553@att.net> <4iKdnULFG5CGGOH6nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@giganews.com> Reply-To: erratic.howard@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:01:20 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="df955ad94a3e4de7fcea6199322f49c9"; logging-data="2492728"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/CT/29N/LqHVGMGm8w6HWLNajc1WHAnx4=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:4Bi65wT130cNOr9qIsZyLIbvbUQ= X-ICQ: 1701145376 X-Newsreader: MesNews/1.08.06.00-gb WM formulated the question : > On 07.01.2025 14:49, FromTheRafters wrote: >> WM was thinking very hard : >>> On 07.01.2025 02:36, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>>> On 01/06/2025 02:43 PM, Jim Burns wrote: >>> >>>>> It would be great if you (WM) did NOT >>>>> find lemma 1 weird, >>>>> but it is what it is. >>> >>> It is not weird. But your conclusions are weird. >>> >>>> The inductive set being covered by >>>> initial segments is an _axiom_ of ZF. >>> >>> And the existence of the set ℕ is also an axiom of ZF. >> >> Which axiom? > > The axiom of infinite set. The elements of the infinite set have been > designed after Dedekind as Zermelo, the creator of the axiom himself > confesses. Its elements can be called cardinal numbers. No, that set is a superset and the naturals need to be extracted from it.