[Milton-L] milton's all
Carrol Cox
cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Sep 20 17:09:39 EDT 2007
Gregory Machacek wrote:
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> Of course, that then requires we imagine an infinitude (or at least an
> illimitude) within a larger infinitude. The mind boggles.
Well, that's how infinity got defined in the 19th c.: a class of which
the sub-classes were infinite -- e.g.,
1 2 3 4 5 6......
2 4 6 8 10 12......
3 6 9 12 15 18.......
4 8 12 16 20 24.......
5 10 15 20 25 30........
All series contain the same number of members. There are as many odd
numbers as there are odd numbers and even numbers combined.
Carrol Cox
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