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Re: How big is infinity?

Subject: Re: How big is infinity?
From: Virgil
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:04:41 -0600
Newsgroups: sci.logic, sci.math
In article <b97cf25cr4d216hmcek99c2s27r0l41j83@xxxxxxx>,
 Lester Zick <dontbother@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:21:31 -0600, Virgil <virgil@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 

> True/false apply to predicates in relation to one another. In other
> words your facile assumption that definitions are neither true nor
> false is false.


Zick must prove that claim by presenting an example each of a "true 
definition" and a "false definition"  in mathematics to illustrate the 
difference, as there are no mathematical definitions that I have ever 
seen are not reducible to the form "let 'A' represent 'B' ", which 
partakes of  neither truth nor falsity.
> 
> >When Zick requires such forms to be either true or false, he is asking 
> >for the impossible.
> 
> Why not? From what I've heard it just takes a little longer.
 
Show me. A "false" definition must imply something contrary to fact, but 
definitions imply nothing, they merely abbreviate.

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