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If you don’t know what introspection is, take plenty of selfies.
Then take a long, hard look at yourself.
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The page Understanding sets of decreasing intervals explains why certain definitions of sets of decreasing intervals are inherently contradictory unless limiting conditions are included, and the page Understanding Limits and Infinity explains how the correct application of limiting conditions can eliminate such contradictions. The paper PDF On Smith-Volterra-Cantor sets and their measure has additional material which gives a more formal version.
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After comments that my PDF paper on the flaw in Gödel’s incompleteness proof is too long, I have added a new section which gives a brief summary of the flaw, while the remainder of the paper details the confusion of levels of language. The paper can be seen at The Fundamental Flaw in Gödel’s Proof of his Incompleteness Theorem.
To understand the philosophy of set theory as it is today requires a knowledge of the history of the subject. One of the most influential works in this respect was Georg Cantor’s set of six papers published between 1879 and 1884 under the overall title of Über unendliche lineare Punktmannig-faltigkeiten, which were published between 1879 and 1884. I now have English translations of Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and the major part, Part 5 (Grundlagen). There is also a new English translation of Cantor’s “A Contribution to the Theory of Sets”.
A look at how the field of meta-mathematics developed from its early days, and how certain illogical and untenable assumptions have been made that fly in the face of the mathematical requirement for strict rigor.
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How to set up a system for easy insertion or changing of footnotes in a web-page, see Easy Footnotes for Web Pages.
After comments that my PDF paper on the flaw in Gödel’s incompleteness proof is too long, I have added a new section which gives a brief summary of the flaw, while the remainder of the paper details the confusion of levels of language. The paper can be seen at The Fundamental Flaw in Gödel’s Proof of his Incompleteness Theorem.
To understand the philosophy of set theory as it is today requires a knowledge of the history of the subject. One of the most influential works in this respect was Georg Cantor’s set of six papers published between 1879 and 1884 under the overall title of Über unendliche lineare Punktmannig-faltigkeiten, which were published between 1879 and 1884. I now have English translations of Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and the major part, Part 5 (Grundlagen). There is also a new English translation of Cantor’s “A Contribution to the Theory of Sets”.
A look at how the field of meta-mathematics developed from its early days, and how certain illogical and untenable assumptions have been made that fly in the face of the mathematical requirement for strict rigor.
The pages of this website are set up to give a good printed copy without extraneous material.
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Rationale: Every logical argument must be defined in some language, and every language has limitations. Attempting to construct a logical argument while ignoring how the limitations of language might affect that argument is a bizarre approach. The correct acknowledgment of the interactions of logic and language explains almost all of the paradoxes, and resolves almost all of the contradictions, conundrums, and contentious issues in modern philosophy and mathematics.
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