@St_Rev I wonder if there's something about complete cognitive absorption that had made math such a powerful ritual community at times
@St_Rev asking questions like “so what is a real number” actually provoked visceral anxiety and therefore the angry response I got.
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@St_Rev because in fact you can’t get real numbers without actual infinities (Dedekind cuts or Cauchy sequences) and those were triggers -
@St_Rev Apparently constructivists tried to find ways to do analysis without any hidden actual infinities, but it was an abject failure. - 12 more replies
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