File spoon-archives/marxism2.archive/marxism2_1996/96-07-10.220, message 109


Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 16:04:10 -0500
From: rahul-AT-peaches.ph.utexas.edu (Rahul Mahajan)
Subject: Re: ..cat


>Of course
>one may not be able to "fully describe" it, even with equations,
>e.g. the Mandelbrot Set with its infinitesimal detail, but then
>the inability to "fully describe" infinity is what led to intuitionism.
>Barkley Rosser

I just noticed this. Why do you think there's an inability to fully
describe infinity? It's not difficult at all, at least if you're talking
about the pedestrian, quotidian infinities we normally deal with.

Rahul




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