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- From: columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: The thread that wouldn't die (was:You know, the integers)
- Date: 27 Aug 92 11:49:30
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- In-reply-to: torkel@sics.se's message of Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:11:49 GMT
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- As Torkel Franzen explains, if one is willing to use the phrase "the formal
- system PA" without blushing, one shouldn't gag at "the integers". (Note
- that one might accept "the integers" without qualms and still feel nauseous
- at "the universe of sets".)
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- To clarify this point, I offer the following variation on PA:
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- 1. There exists a first post in this thread.
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- 2. For any post in this thread, there is a reply to it.
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- I believe (2); I'm not so sure about (1).
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