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- From: holmes@opal.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes)
- Subject: Re: Set Theory and Theology
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:44:35 GMT
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- In article <BuBCCp.6wJ@unx.sas.com> sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Sep8.204819.316@guinness.idbsu.edu>, holmes@opal.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes) writes:
- >|>
- >|>
- >|> Please note that the existence of the set of all natural numbers is
- > ^^^
- >|> sanctioned by one of the Fathers of the Church. Note the use of
- >
- >This is not obvious. I am suspicious of the translation, you clever
- >promulgator of Platonism.
- >
- >|> Every number is defined by its own unique character, so that no number
- >|> is equal to any other. They are all unequal to one another and
- >|> different, and the individual numbers are finite, but as a class they
- > ^^^^^
- >Class? Do you have the Latin here?
- >
- >|> Never let us doubt, then, that every number is known to him 'whose
- >|> understanding cannot be numbered'. Although the infinite series of
- >
- >Of course, this doesn't require there to be a set of same.
- >--
- >Gary H. Merrill [Principal Systems Developer, C Compiler Development]
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- >sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com ... !mcnc!sas!sasghm
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- St. Augustine does not refer directly to the existence of the set of
- natural numbers, but refer to the last paragraph of the quote, which
- you did not include, where he points out that the infinity of natural
- numbers is "finite" to God. This certainly seems to support the
- existence of "omega".
- --
- The opinions expressed | --Sincerely,
- above are not the "official" | M. Randall Holmes
- opinions of any person | Math. Dept., Boise State Univ.
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