Sujet : Re: Contradiction of bijections as a measure for infinite sets
De : ross.a.finlayson (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Ross Finlayson)
Groupes : sci.mathDate : 04. Apr 2024, 03:13:07
Autres entêtes
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On 04/03/2024 06:13 AM, Jim Burns wrote:
On 4/2/2024 11:52 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
On 04/02/2024 04:25 PM, Jim Burns wrote:
On 4/2/2024 6:06 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
On 04/02/2024 02:40 PM, Jim Burns wrote:
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My exploration of Unicode is a little treat
I give myself for having to repeat the same thing
over and over and over.
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Doesn't it repeat itself,
and we just echo it?
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Speech with no speaker?
Not a thing I've seen around here, at least.
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Perhaps that is the target which ChatGPT and such as
are aiming at. I ask you to take me at my word
when I claim to be a Natural.Intelligence,
something between a chimp and an angel.
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Yeah, we know you're sort of genius.
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To clarify,
I am claiming that I'm a human being.
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I am sort.of.a.genius compared to the most recent
version of Hasbro Build.A.Brain and its ilk.
I'm confident that you are too.
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It will be interesting to find out
how long that will stay true.
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Yet, are you a platonist?
A mathematical platonist?
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I think this covers it:
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| Most writers on the subject seem to agree that
| the typical working mathematician is
| a Platonist on weekdays and
| a formalist on Sundays.
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— Philip J. Davis
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It would be an impressive exaggeration to call me
"a working mathematician", but
I can mathematick, I have, and I will.
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When I mathematick,
real numbers exist. Full stop.
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When I want an answer, it's easier to think about
teeny.tiny.dot.real.numbers ...somewhere ...somehow.
Existing Platonically.
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However,
when I want to give a reason to mathematick,
"Look at these formulas" just seems to me
way more effective than
"Somewhere... somehow... there are teeny.tiny.dots".
And that's formalist.
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I think you've mostly seen formalist.me.
Mostly, I've been doing
Sunday.style big.picture stuff.
Hand me a different problem, and
you'll discover a different me.
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About the di-aletheic, ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbyFehrthIQ&list=PLb7rLSBiE7F4eHy5vT61UYFR7_BIhwcOY&index=23&t=1305About statements and fact and retraction, ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tODnCZvVtLg&list=PLb7rLSBiE7F4eHy5vT61UYFR7_BIhwcOY&index=15Iota-values: the word "iota" means "smallest non-zero value".
Real-values: all the values between negative infinity and infinity.
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