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Re: An uncountable countable set

Subject: Re: An uncountable countable set
From: Lester Zick
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:09:06 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.math
On 30 Oct 2006 16:52:02 -0800, "MoeBlee" <jazzmobe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Tony Orlow wrote:
>> stephen@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> > The point is, there are different types of numbers, and statements
>> > that are true of one type of number need not be true of other
>> > types of numbers.
>
>> Well, then, you must be of the opinion that set theory is NOT the
>> foundation for all mathematics, but only some particular system of
>> numbers and ideas: a theory. That's good.
>
>Whether he thinks set theory is or is not a foundation, it doesn't
>follow that he should not think it is a foundation simply because there
>are different kinds of numbers.

Huh? Maybe you could run that by us again, Moe.

~v~~

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