How real are real numbers? (2004)

Re:How real are real numbers? (2004) by stcredzero on Monday April 10, 2017 @07:07PM (#14083355)

I think Borel has confused names with things.

Pedantic positivist?

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Re:How real are real numbers? (2004) by TheOtherHobbes on Monday April 10, 2017 @07:48PM (#14083599)

Or simply a pragmatist.

Reals are a useful sensory abstraction. Countability is another sensory abstraction, although for most people it's a rather less useful one.

There's no particular obligation for sensory abstractions to be logically watertight - if only because logic is an abstraction itself.

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