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truckerbill 83 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The number line freaks me out (2016)

You are right because you can recursively add clauses. 'Buffalo buffalo...' or 'This was my dad's dad's dad's...' If you think you have a full set you can always add one more

sambapa 83 days ago [–]

You seem to misunderstand the concept of countable infinity

truckerbill 83 days ago | [–]

Haha oh you're right, was misframing in my head the word countable as meaning finite.

I even provide the definition of countable infinity in my counterargument without realising it, though maybe that too is a misunderstanding.

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