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>>12657744
>>12657745
>>12657746

So what about an 'infinite set'? Well, to begin with, you should say precisely what the term means. Okay, if you don't, at least someone should. Putting an adjective in front of a noun does not in itself make a mathematical concept. Cantor declared that an 'infinite set' is a set which is not finite. Surely that is unsatisfactory, as Cantor no doubt suspected himself. It's like declaring that an 'all-seeing Leprechaun' is a Leprechaun which can see everything. Or an 'unstoppable mouse' is a mouse which cannot be stopped. These grammatical constructions do not create concepts, except perhaps in a literary or poetic sense.

So what about an ‘infinite set’? Well, to begin with, you should say precisely
what the term means. Okay, if you don’t, at least someone should. Putting
an adjective in front of a noun does not in itself make a mathematical concept.
Cantor declared that an ‘infinite set’ is a set which is not finite. Surely that
is unsatisfactory, as Cantor no doubt suspected himself. It’s like declaring that
an ‘all-seeing Leprechaun’ is a Leprechaun which can see everything. Or an
‘unstoppable mouse’ is a mouse which cannot be stopped. These grammatical
constructions do not create concepts, except perhaps in a literary or poetic
sense. It is not clear that there are any sets that are not finite, just as it is
not clear that there are any Leprechauns which can see everything, or that
there are mice that cannot be stopped. Certainly in science there is no reason
to suppose that ‘infinite sets’ exist. Are there an infinite number of quarks or
electrons in the universe? If physicists had to hazard a guess, I am confident the
majority would say: No. But even if there were an infinite number of electrons,
it is unreasonable to suppose that you can get an infinite number of them all
together as a single ‘data object’.

My results are in.
Also, verbal IQ and performal IQ scores?

>>8344468

>>8231053
>Solid evidence

>A handful of studies

And you're supposed to be a critical thinker?

Kek.