Re: Infinities

2017-09-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Sep 2017, at 13:47, David Nyman wrote: https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-measure-infinities-find-theyre-equal-20170912/ A rare progress on the continuum hypothesis (CH). Shelah is amazingly smart. There is that story that he arrived one week to early at a congress of

Re: A profound lack of profundity (and soon "the starting point")

2017-09-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Sep 2017, at 22:37, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​>​>>​​Yesterday the Moscow man we can see today, was the Helsinki man. ​>> ​​No. We agreed that "the Moscow man" means the man who saw Moscow, but yesterday nobody saw