Show us how Gene's argument fails. -- Gene
________________________________ From: Charles Greathouse <charles.greathouse@case.edu> To: Eugene Salamin <gene_salamin@yahoo.com>; math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2014 12:28 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] Numbers Aplenty
The website looks great!
All natural numbers are interesting because, if there were an uninteresting number, there would be a smallest one, and that number would be interesting by virtue of being the smallest uninteresting number.
(Easy) exercise: Show how Gene's argument fails in first-order logic. (Hint: Russell.)
Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Eugene Salamin <gene_salamin@yahoo.com> wrote:
All natural numbers are interesting because, if there were an uninteresting number, there would be a smallest one, and that number would be interesting by virtue of being the smallest uninteresting number.
-- Gene