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From: Archimedes Plutonium on 9 Jan 2010 01:49 AP wrote: > > Second Contradiction is that Peano and followers then insist the set > formed by all the Natural > Numbers is an Infinite Set of numbers. But how can they be an infinite > set when Peano > and followers claim every Peano Natural Number is a "finite-number." > No infinite set is possible in which every element of the set is a > finite specimen. This process of correcting the Peano Axioms has taken me about 20 years, so this is not a superficial jaunt for me. What Peano Axioms produce is this set: {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ...} where each element or member is a finite number and where the three-dot ellipsis indicates -- out to infinity. So the contradiction is that how can you have a infinite set when every one of its elements is a finite-number. And Peano and his followers would say the endless adding of 1, means the set must be infinite, even though each element is finite. So here is what AP says happens when you endlessly add 1 as a Successor axiom that the set produced is not the above set, but this set: {0, 000...001, 000...002, 000...003, ... , 999...997, 999...998, 999...999 } Now Peano and followers never defined finite nor infinite and expected everyone to come into mathematics brandishing their own notions about what is finite and what is infinite. And they are told that every Peano Natural Number is a finite number. So what I did was precisely define Finite as that of 10^500 and beyond is the Infinite. That is clear and precise of a definition. Peano could have done the very same, by picking a huge number and declaring it as finite and the rest as infinite. In fact, if you give it some thought, that is the only way to precisely define Finite versus Infinite. Only I did not pick 10^500 arbitrarily. I picked that number as the largest Planck Unit in Physics. Because there is no more physics going on beyond that number since we can never do any experiments beyond that number. So where Physics gives out, math, being a subset of physics gives out. But back to the discussion. You see, my set of AP-Natural Numbers is identical to Peano Natural Numbers, except the fact that I included the numbers that go to infinity. I included the Infinite Integers since the endless adding of 1 yields or creates or produces infinite-integers. Peano and his followers never seemed to grasp the idea that a Success axiom is going to go beyond "finite" and yield numbers that are themselves infinite- numbers. So that Peano and his followers who never defined Finite nor Infinite, have imposed upon everyone to dictate that his numbers are all "finite" yet Peano never defines finite and then dictate that his set must be infinite whilst containing only finite numbers. You see, my set is Infinite because obviously it contains infinite numbers as members of the set. But examining Peano's Natural Numbers set all of its members are dictated as being finite-numbers. Now we all know that in mathematics when you add two finite numbers together the answer is never an infinite number. The answer to adding two finite numbers is always another finite number. So in the Peano Natural Numbers set as illustrated above, we can add pairwise every two of those numbers until we end up with just one gigantic number. Is it finite or is it infinite? Well, according to Peano and his followers the theorem that addition of every two finite numbers ends up as a finite number, means that the Peano Natural Numbers when added up is a gigantic Finite Number. And thus the Peano Natural Numbers does not form an infinite set, but is a finite set, since every one of its members is alleged or dictated to be finite. So there is one contradiction exposed of the Peano Axioms. It is caused by the fact that Peano and followers never defined with precision what they meant by a number as being finite nor did they bother with well-defining infinite. This lack of definition of finite versus infinite, means the Peano Axioms are a gaggle of inconsistency. Any Axiom system that has a Successor Function of endless adding of 1 has a infinite set produced immediately. For the life of me, I cannot understand why Peano and his followers needed, demanded and dictated that their numbers had to be all "finite numbers", like some Freudian complex that they wanted and insisted each Natural Number to be finite. So they needed the Successor Axiom, but they wanted also the dictation that every number is finite. Well you just cannot have those two conditions: (i) every Natural Number is finite number (ii) have a Successor Axiom So any axiom system that has (i) and (ii) is immediately a contradictory and inconsistent system. The two just simply tear each other apart. So although Peano and his followers were all fooled and lulled into foolishness, the foolishness is easy to see, in that you focus on the endless adding of 1 so that 678 goes to 679 and on and on, we can easily be fooled and lulled into thinking that every one of those numbers is a finite-number yet the entire set formed is infinite. So Peano and his followers were fooled for 150 years. And the Correction is so simple. That the Successor does not give the Peano set shown above but yields that set of this: {0, 1, 2, 3, ..., 999...998, 999...999} That set is an infinite set and it is this type of format that yields divergence to infinity or convergence to a finite number in series or sequence mathematics. In math, if I were to ask you what does 1+1+1+1+... yield? You would say it diverges to infinity for it is like the Successor axiom only it is a endless adding of 1. In fact that series is equal to 999...999. So all that Peano and followers needed to do was to define Finite precisely and they could have chosen 10^60000000000. And they would have realized that their Successor Axiom would go beyond their Finite definition. And thus, they would have correctly stated that their Natural Numbers formed an infinite set. But they would have also admitted that some of the members of the Natural Numbers are finite whereas the rest are infinite-numbers. Also, some of the blame for why Peano and followers went so far astray of mathematics can be blamed on the time period when Cantor was santering about with his phony mathematics of different types of infinity. The world has only one type of infinity and most of Cantor's arguments are severely flawed arguments such as the alleged uncountability of the Reals when in fact the cardinality of the Reals matches the cardinality of the Natural Numbers. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |