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You tell me clearly, unambiguously ...

April 22 2005 at 5:28 PM
  (Login Wisdom7491)


Response to pedantic?

 

... what "innumerable" means, and I'll try to answer your question. (If "innumerable" means "denumerable", then you surely know what the answer is.)

If one is pedantic who pays close attention to the technical meanings of terms when they're being used in their technical senses, then I guess I'm pedantic. But of course logic and mathematics are not the only fields that exploit technical terms in their precise meanings. All or virtually all sciences do. And one would do well to follow the experts in their usage of those terms when they're being used technically...as I was every time I used the term "denumerable", because "infinite" is imprecise. [To say that a set has infinitely many members tells me no more about how many members the set has than it does to tell me that a set has finitely many members.] Surely you can't successfully use terms like "force", "mass", "energy", etc. in their everyday senses when doing or talking about physics.

 
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  1. Re: You tell me clearly, unambiguously ... - Al on Apr 23, 9:00 AM
    1. I'll take a guess. - Bill on Apr 23, 12:53 PM
      1. why guess? - Al on Apr 23, 5:12 PM
        1. Answer (again) - Bill on Apr 23, 6:39 PM
          1. Re: Answer (again) - Al on Apr 23, 7:09 PM
            1. This protracted discussion - Sue on Apr 24, 9:39 AM
              1. Thank you! - Bill on Apr 24, 12:41 PM
                1. You're welcome - Sue on Apr 24, 1:54 PM
            2. Another try...do pay atention! - Bill on Apr 24, 2:14 PM
              1.        explanation now grokked - Al on Apr 24, 9:49 PM
                1. "Oh, Good Grief!" (Charlie Brown) - Bill on Apr 25, 1:49 PM
                  1. Re: "Oh, Good Grief!" (Charlie Brown) - Al on Apr 25, 3:40 PM
                    1. Re: "Oh, Good Grief!" (Charlie Brown) - Bill on Apr 25, 8:37 PM
                      1. as everyone glazed over, Lucy pulled the ball away - Al on Apr 25, 9:08 PM
                        1. Permit me to edit slightly - Bill on Apr 26, 8:35 AM
                          1. okey doke - Al on Apr 26, 12:19 PM
            3. Conspicuous typo - Bill on Apr 24, 4:36 PM
     
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