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- Subject: Re: A Non-Cantorian Set Theory question
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.135256.14734@husc3.harvard.edu>
- From: kubo@widder.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo)
- Date: 14 Aug 92 13:52:55 EDT
- References: <1992Aug12.113415.1648@gacvx2.gac.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug12.113415.1648@gacvx2.gac.edu> kiran@gacvx2.gac.edu writes:
- >Since we know that non-Cantorian set theories are possible, is there a
- >one-dimensional shape which can be written some aleph times where that aleph is
- >between aleph-nought and _c_? If so, what would the shape be?
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- The proof that only countably many homeomorphic copies of a letter T
- can be placed on the plane can be done using only the intermediate
- value theorem, and the fact that the circle and the plane both have
- countable dense subsets. Except for the axiom of (countable?) choice
- for the intermediate value theorem, the proof could probably be carried
- out in ZF.
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- This doesn't rule out the possibility that a "long line" of unusual
- order-type could be written at most X times, where X is somewhere
- between countably and continuum many.
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- -tk
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