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On 30 Aug 2006 16:19:28 -0700, "David R Tribble" <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>Lester Zick wrote:
>>> Mechanically "infinity" just refers to the number of infinitessimals.
>>> What I believe modern mathematikers but nobody else in his right mind
>>> would refer to as the cardinality of infinitessimals.
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>David R Tribble wrote:
>>> Depends on how you define those infinitesimals, doesn't it?
>>> [...]
>>> But obviously, these different infinitesimal sets
>>> have different cardinalities.
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>Lester Zick wrote:
>> And I'm trying to answer the question raised by this thread and you're
>> trying not to.
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>The question is ill-formed.
Thanks for the information. Seems pretty well formed to me because I
can answer it. And maybe the reason it seems ill formed to you is that
you can't.
> What does "infinity" mean? In what
>mathematical theory is the question being posed?
Wouldn't you first like to know what the definition of "is" is? Who
normally does your thinking for you?
~v~~
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