Post by Chris M. ThomassonPost by GanzhinterseherPost by SergioPost by Sergioalso, how dark are dark numbers ?
like "black" dark, or "brown" dark ? or darkish ?
better to call them "unseen numbers" ?
these are "undiscovered numbers" unseen by man.
(what about aliens? bet they havent "seen" most of them either, so an
infinity of "undiscovered" and/or "unseen numbers" will always remain.)
Every endsegment in
∩{E(1), E(2), E(3), ...} = { } (*)
can eject only one natnumber because of
∀k ∈ ℕ: E(k+1) = E(k) \ {k} .
But for all definable (i.e., not dark) endsegments we have
∀k ∈ ℕ: ∩{E(1), E(2), ..., E(k)} = E(k) /\ |E(k)| = ℵo .
If (*) is true, then also finite sets must have been passed between the infinite endsegments and the empty set.
Compare a long staircase. If the bottom is resached from above, then also the first stairs have been passed. This is a finite argument for a finite set and cannot be circumvented by infinity-blather.
But finite sets are not passed by definable endsegments.
Either there are dark natural numbers or there is no finished infinity and the set in (*) is never completely empty but only empty "up to every finite k".
There is no finished infinity, that's an oxymoron. Just like there is no
largest integer.
Must disagree, that "there's no finished infinity",
though of course "the unbounded" is not finished by
bounding.
Stephan Koerner wrote a book "The Philosophy of Mathematics,
An Introduction". It really picks up after LEJ Brouwer,
who coined intuitionism after constructivism (and it's a
constructivism, and for logicism).
"In speaking of a real number the classical analyst is
committed to the assumption that it is 'possible' to
pick out a subclass from the _actual_ totality of all
natural numbers. In speaking of all real numbers, he
is not only committed to assuming the actual totality
of all natural numbers but also the _greater actual_
infinite totality of all subclasses of this class.
The assumption of such totalities implied in speaking
of a real number, or even of all real numbers,
transcends the finite point of view and the
employment of finite methods."
Then, for integers and their properties,
and their resulting space and all the
properties of the space, has that integers
are as neatly point-like and infinitesimal
parts of the entire space, as they are wholes
to the infinitesimal parts of a number between
zero and one (all of them).