• silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    oh this is a neat argument I’d never encountered before. I was also under the impression that we hadn’t proved there were infinities with cardinality greater than ℵ₁.

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      1 year ago

      How/why would you simultaneously hold this belief and reference the HoTT book

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          1 year ago

          What are you doing with the HoTT book if you have never heard of Cantor’s theorem??? You must understand there’s a minimum of several years of intensive study in between these two things

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            1 year ago

            self-study. it’s been a decade since I was in school and kept encountering references to it, so I’ve been working through a lecture series and the book.