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- From: mccolm@darwin.math.usf.edu. (Gregory McColm)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: You know, the integers (was: Re: Stupid question about FLT)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.153555.1298@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
- Date: 24 Aug 92 15:35:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug16.172642.13398@sics.se> torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug11.190119.23518@ariel.ec.usf.edu> mccolm@darwin.math.usf.
- >edu. (Gregory McColm) writes:
- >
- > >From there, we get more problems. Suppose that you
- > >believe that the model of the integers exist. Is PA
- > >true on this model?
- >
- > What is PA? My explanation of the integers is simple: the integers
- >are 0, s(0), s(s(0)) and so on. Any obscurity or ambiguity that you
- >find in this explanation carries over to any explanation of what is
- >meant by "PA".
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-
- And what, precisely do you mean by "and so on"??? You may think
- that it is obvious what you mean, but a number of people, from
- Aristotle to Brouwer, have had doubts about the murkey depths of
- that "and so on".
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- Greg McColm | I see it, but I don't believe it.
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