Re: Foundations Of Mathematics Abscondita

Jon Awbrey <[email protected]>
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FOMA.  Note 8 : PoV on Ultrafinitism

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Re: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2009-February/013395.html

This sounds like the Heap (or Sorites) Paradox.
C.S. Peirce is noted for distinguishing "vague"
and "general" statements and giving definitions
of them in terms of their exemptions from basic
Aristotelian laws.

Jon Awbrey

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