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abnry
3205 days ago
If you take the power set of an infinite set, you /always/ get a cardinality bigger than the original set. So there are an infinite number of infinities.
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Others
3205 days ago
This is a good point. But to be super pedantic, there isn't a size of infinity large enough to describe how many sizes of infinity there are.
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fooker
3205 days ago
Why not? The aleph numbers have a bijection with naturals.
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Others
3205 days ago
See this answer on the mathematics stack exchange (it's really a book excerpt, but I don't know where else to find it.)
https://math.stackexchange.com/a/5390/220797
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