Quote: there are many ways to define numbers as sets; each defines relations differently; so number is not a particular set

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Since for [Ernie and Johnny] 1 was the unit set … [0], [0,[0]] … [0,[0] … [0,[0] … ] … ] … for Ernie and (ii) [0], [[0]] … [[[0] … ] … ] … for Johnny. … [p. 279] If the conclusions of the previous section … by his father which set the set of … number 3. … But the sets were different in each case. … … the fact that they disagree on which particular … … [p. 284] If numbers are sets, then they must … really one set rather than another, it must … an unknowable truth is hardly tenable. But there … account of these matters, one will do as …   Google-1   Google-2

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