top | item 45068086 (no title) blueplanet200 | 6 months ago >I'm an enthusiastic Cantor skepticA skeptic in what way? He said a lot. discuss order hn newest andrewla|6 months ago Here I'm referring to the cloud of things that Hilbert called "Cantor's Paradise". Basically everything around the notion of cardinality of infinities. blueplanet200|6 months ago Please say more, I don't see how you can be _skeptical_ of those ideas.Math is math, if you start with ZFC axioms you get uncountable infinites.Maybe you don't start with those axioms. But that has nothing to do with truth, it's just a different mathematical setting. load replies (3)
andrewla|6 months ago Here I'm referring to the cloud of things that Hilbert called "Cantor's Paradise". Basically everything around the notion of cardinality of infinities. blueplanet200|6 months ago Please say more, I don't see how you can be _skeptical_ of those ideas.Math is math, if you start with ZFC axioms you get uncountable infinites.Maybe you don't start with those axioms. But that has nothing to do with truth, it's just a different mathematical setting. load replies (3)
blueplanet200|6 months ago Please say more, I don't see how you can be _skeptical_ of those ideas.Math is math, if you start with ZFC axioms you get uncountable infinites.Maybe you don't start with those axioms. But that has nothing to do with truth, it's just a different mathematical setting. load replies (3)
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blueplanet200|6 months ago
Math is math, if you start with ZFC axioms you get uncountable infinites.
Maybe you don't start with those axioms. But that has nothing to do with truth, it's just a different mathematical setting.