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To: Doctor Stochastic
Yes, I take an extreme Platonist position. We do not "construct" the primes - we discover them. Or did the number "29" not exist until the first human counted past 28?
117 posted on 04/02/2002 11:05:43 PM PST by John Locke
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To: John Locke
Well then, speaking as an Extreme Platonist can you tell if the real line well-ordered? Or equivalently, are there infinite sets so big that one cannot tell if one is larger than another? Or equvalently, does there exist an unmeasurable set of real numbers (outer measure 1 and inner measure 0 for example.)

These are serious questions for the Platonist position.

120 posted on 04/03/2002 6:11:08 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic
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