Agent Smith recently posted — alan1000
Well, I think that there's something to Cantor's absolute infinity, and I've had splendid discussion about the topic here. And I've not been ban yet.We're committed finitists here. Heresies are not allowed. — Count Timothy von Icarus
Yet if there's a Continuum Hypothesis, we clearly don't understand everything about infinity. — ssu
That's one important factor, actually.. And when transfinite theory is incorporated into physics, practitioners take notice. I wonder if that has happened? — jgill
That we don't have any use for the larger infinities in physics, at least yet, makes it doubtful that the Cantorian idea of larger and larger infinities is valid. — ssu
That is the problem.Now, it appears like many people believe that the capacity to predict is the goal. — Metaphysician Undercover
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Are aleph-1 infinities useful in the sciences? Difficult question — alan1000
The validity of the aleph-1 or non-countable infinity is adequately demonstrated by Cantor's Diagonal Argument — alan1000
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