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JOG wrote:
> While I have your attention perhaps you might also clarify a
> distinction that I previously had:
>
> I was under the impression that - given that the extension of a
> predicate is the set of true propositions that can be formed by
> substituting a term for each of its free variables - a predicate
> /always/ has an extension. In contrast a set defined such as { m/n :
> m,n E Z & n!=0 } (rational numbers) is infinite and cannot be
> enumerated.
>
> Is this distinction incorrect?
Unless you mean something different by "enumerated", I have to note that the rationals are countably infinite. Received on Tue Sep 19 2006 - 21:56:36 CDT
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