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Re: What is a set, philosophically
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Date: 
Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:53:47 GMT
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Dave Schuler wrote:

>    About a year or so ago I wrote a pseudo-serious, long-winded post on RTL on
> this very subject (for the terminally curious, I'll try and find it on
> DejaNews).

For the newbies, and those who don't recall trivia well, this was in
response to my posing a thought question. Dave's answer was well
written, I agreed with it then, and still do. Very worth rereading if
you're interested in the zen of sets.

Frank's reply, below, comes at this question from a different
perspective, and so I agree with it as well.


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  Re: What is a set, philosophically
 
(...) About a year or so ago I wrote a pseudo-serious, long-winded post on RTL on this very subject (for the terminally curious, I'll try and find it on DejaNews). In essence, the "setness" of a set is contained in its unique pieces, such as the (...) (27 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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