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Re: [jboske] Transfinites



Robert LeChevalier scripsit:

> For uncountable extremely large finite, we have so'a, recalling that "so'i" 
> means "many", and so'e has to be enough larger as to make "many" seem too 
> small, and so'a larger still in the same sense.  All of the so'V words are 
> uncountable numbers with varying degrees of size attached, and the use of 
> so'u as a standard quantifier shows that they can convey some important senses.

This is a different sense of "uncountable" than we are using here.  Sets
are called *countable* if it is possible to put their members in 1-1
correspondence with the natural numbers or a subset of them; *uncountable*
otherwise.  All finite sets are countable; some infinite sets are countable,
some uncountable.

You are using "uncountable" in the sense of "vague".

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