On Sunday, 7 November 2021 at 17:45:28 UTC-4, WM wrote:
> Gus Gassmann schrieb am Sonntag, 7. November 2021 um 22:21:25 UTC+1:
> > On Sunday, 7 November 2021 at 15:24:20 UTC-4, WM wrote:
> > > Gus Gassmann schrieb am Sonntag, 7. November 2021 um 14:04:27 UTC+1:
> > > > On Sunday, 7 November 2021 at 07:56:59 UTC-4, WM wrote:
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> > > > > What is left-hand side next to omega on the ordinal line?
> > > > This is totally unclear. "Left-hand side" refers to driving rules, or perhaps to equations, but not to ordinal lines.
> > > The ordinal line like the real line shows increasing values from left to right.
> > So what, sirra, is the left-hand side of the ordinal line? I'd say, there is no better description than 1 (or 0 if you prefer).
> The question is different from what you pretended to have understood: What is left-hand side next to omega on the ordinal line?
As I said: You do not know how to express yourself properly. However, the answer is equally easy: three dots ("...") or perhaps a squiggly or zigzagging line ("/\/\/\").
> > > > If you are asking what is the immediate predecessor of omega, the answer is: There is none. Omega does not have a predecessor, it is a "limit ordinal".
> > > Limits destroy set theory. If you cannot count all natural numbers then countability is nonsense. Therefore you have to count until only omega remains.
> > As usual you try to shoehorn a natural language interpretation onto the term "countable".
> No. ∀n ∈ ℕ is a clear and formal statement.
That is decidedly not what you wrote before. You nonsensically opined that "[i]f you cannot count all natural numbers then countability is nonsense".
> Cantor made very clear that a. this does not work and b. what needs to be used instead.
> Yes, he used natural language because he had no formal yet: "eine solche gegenseitig eindeutige und vollständige Korrespondenz hergestellt [...] irgendeine gegenseitig eindeutige und vollständige Zuordnung der beiden Mengen [...] auch eine gegenseitig eindeutige und vollständige Korrespondenz" [Cantor, p. 415] In case of enumerating this means all natnural numbers are required until omega.
> > I am not going to trot all of this out again here.
> You know that you are wrong.
I truly know no such thing. What I *DO* know is that you have not presented *ONE* coherent argument in this forum. Trying to simply deny this without actually presenting a coherent argument strikes me as self-defeating.
> > > If you collect only endsegments which do not have an empty intersection together (collect as long as the intersection is infinite, then stop) then you get
> > > |∩{E(k) : k ∈ ℕ_def}| = ℵ₀ .
> > You do not. You require a proof that ℕ_def is finite.
> No, I use what there is. ℕ_def is not finite but |ℕ_def| < ℵ₀ .
This is clearly about as daft as can be. There is no concept of "slightly infinite" or " almost infinite but not quite". (At least in ZFC there is not, but if you try to show ZFC inconsistent, you will have to prove two contradictory statements *WITHIN* ZFC. Since nothing you have done has come even close to showing even the most rudimentary understanding of the issues, I am not holding my breath that there will be anything substantive from you in the next, oh, omega years.)
> > You can't even supply that. (In fact, ℕ_def = ℕ and thus has cardinality ℵ₀.)
> Look, if you collect only those endsegments which give an infinite intersection, then the cardinality cannot be ℵ₀.
Granted, but that is not using the set ℕ_def. How hard can that be to comprehend?
> > >> Every end segment E(n) contains infinitely many natural numbers, but never n - 1.
> > The intersection of all end segments *CAN* be (and (*IS*) empty, even though each end segment has cardinality ℵ₀, inclusion monotony and all other smokescreens
> > Inclusion monotony is so straight and simple that it cannot be denunciated as wrong by fools of matheology.
The level of indentation is again wrong. This line is your crap. I can assure you that I would never use the word "denunciated". Cute portmanteau, but nonetheless ridiculous.
> > > What gives
> > > |∩{E(k) : k ∈ ℕ}| = 0 ?
> > This is a trivial consequence of the fact that ℕ has cardinality ℵ₀.
> You should try to understand! All definable numbers are lost but all endsegments with empty intersection contain infinitely many natnumbers. Which numbers remain when the intersection is empty?
Several things about this mishmash of ideas: First, nothing is ever "lost" from an intersection. Second, the intersection contains exactly those numbers that are contained in every end segment. Since there are infinitely many end segments E(n), and no end segment E(n+1) contains n, the intersection is empty. In other words, it does not contain anything, and in particular it doesn't contain numbers.