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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Cantor was wrong about cardinality --- Reals are defined inconsistently (some concurrence).
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:13:27 -0700
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peteolcott <Here@Home> writes:
> On 9/17/2019 2:22 AM, Zelos Malum wrote:
>>> If we can envision a single point difference between two intervals then
>> we only need to carry this same reasoning through to the subsequent
>> single point difference between two intervals to establish the basis
>> for the infinitesimal number system.
>> 
>> No you cannot, because you have not established any "value" to these,
>> and what it even means.
>
> Both Mike Terry and Keith Thompson already agree on how this applies
> to the difference between [A,B] and (A,B]. Keith Thompson then goes
> on to fill in most of the rest of the details of how this is extended
> to subsequent points in his 16/09/2019 23:46 post.

Do not mistake my statement for agreement with you.

[...]
>> Considering the incoherent nonsense you spew here, I woudln't hold my
>> braeth if I was you.
>
> Two other people already agree that it is not incoherent nonsense.

Do not make claims about what you think I believe.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Will write code for food.
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */