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by discarded1023 1 day ago
> Similarly when people say "the rationals are countable" and "the computable numbers are countable" this is taking for granted the Cantor notion of measuring cardinality by bijective correspondence, once again, a theory that yields nothing of value except endless paradoxes and naval-gazing nonsense.

You may enjoy a recent update on that story [0] that maybe avoids a few paradoxes and looks at things other than navels.

[0] https://nicholasdibella.com/cantor.pdf

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Thanks! That was a nice read.