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From: ROSSERJB-AT-jmu.edu
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 17:39:38 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: ..cat


     The intuitiionist argument (see Brouwer) is that
just writing 1, 2, 3, ... or an 8 on its side is not a
complete description.  These are labels, or indicators,
but not complete descriptions.  In fact they argue that
finite mentalities cannot "fully describe" infinity by
any means.  Of course intuitionism is a minority view
among mathematicians.
Barkley Rosser


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