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 --- from list marxism2-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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