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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Subject: Re: You know, the integers (was: Re: Stupid question about FLT)
- In-Reply-To: djvelleman@amherst.edu's message of Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:01:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.153857.26781@sics.se>
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- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
- References: <1992Jul21.132554.152734@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- <1992Jul21.150931.22637@sics.se> <1992Jul22.100121.1@amherst.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:38:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.100121.1@amherst.edu> djvelleman@amherst.edu writes:
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- >I find the cumulative hierarch of sets very *unclear*--especially in
- >comparison to the integers. My reaction to the statement, "You know, THE
- >INTEGERS" would be "Oh yes, of course, I know those." I'm afraid my
- >reaction to "You know, THE SETS" is "No, I don't know them.
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- Certainly the cumulative hierarchy of sets is unclear if you compare it with
- the integers! Who ever claimed otherwise? But the answer to the question
- "what sets?" which I mentioned was not "you know, THE SETS", but the
- very different answer given by Zermelo.
-