Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Le 16-août-06, à 02:25, Brent Meeker a écrit : ... >>There I think I disagree. If there were no intelligent creatures like >>ourselves, the infinite set of integers would not "exist" (I don't >>think >>they exist like my coffee does anyway). There would be "xx" but no >>number 2 >>that was generated by a sucessor operation under Peano's axioms. > > > > > But "2" is just another notation for "xx".
No I meant "xx" as a specific instance, like "||" and "@@". "2" is a notation for the class of all pairs or some such abstraction. Brent Meeker --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
