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Article #158Re: Set Theory and Theology
From: Gary Merrill
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 13:34
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 13:34
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In article <1992Sep8.204819.316@guinness.idbsu.edu>, holmes@opal.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes) writes:
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|> Please note that the existence of the set of all natural numbers is
^^^
|> sanctioned by one of the Fathers of the Church. Note the use of
This is not obvious. I am suspicious of the translation, you clever
promulgator of Platonism.
|> Every number is defined by its own unique character, so that no number
|> is equal to any other. They are all unequal to one another and
|> different, and the individual numbers are finite, but as a class they
^^^^^
Class? Do you have the Latin here?
|> Never let us doubt, then, that every number is known to him 'whose
|> understanding cannot be numbered'. Although the infinite series of
Of course, this doesn't require there to be a set of same.
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