Re: [Mid] A brief tour of inifinity

In a message dated 6/13/99 2:55:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
charles@eecs.umich.edu writes:

<< http://www.slip.net/~kkeller/math/infinity/index.shtml >>

        I went there and found at least one addressable point in our
different views, which is contained in the following paragraph.:

<<Well, at some level it's not important. After all, if your house burned
down tomorrow, the cardinality of space won't help much. But to
mathematicians, the concept of different infinities is both strange and
enlightening, in that our ideas about the foundations of even a relatively
simple thing as numbers gets turned upside-down.>>

        The concept of different infinities may be where we get into
difficulty. We seem to have different concepts of infinity here. Therefore we
have erupted into a spate of sophistry which even Occam's Razor may not be
sharp enough to reveal the truth.

        I am prepared to continue with the discussion, however. :-) Sitting
at home in a wheelchair is more boring than our discussion has been (and less
enlightening).
BTW, I do see your point and always have, but do you see my point?

                                                                                
                                Andrew

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Received on Sun Jun 13 19:23:28 1999