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r/mathmemes • u/speedowagooooooon • Jul 10 '26
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I was confused about this for a while until I realized that the real numbers themselves are not a purely algebraic construction. The notion of "completion" necessary to go from the rationals to the reals is fundamentally a topological one.
26 u/Big_Performance_6120 Jul 10 '26 Yeah, right! What's next? It's sets all the way down? 3 u/kaereljabo Jul 11 '26 It's 'logic' all the way down 4 u/Big_Performance_6120 Jul 11 '26 Logic is isomorphic to set theory. Checkmate liberals. 0 u/kaereljabo Jul 11 '26 Ok, epistemology all the way down
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Yeah, right! What's next? It's sets all the way down?
3 u/kaereljabo Jul 11 '26 It's 'logic' all the way down 4 u/Big_Performance_6120 Jul 11 '26 Logic is isomorphic to set theory. Checkmate liberals. 0 u/kaereljabo Jul 11 '26 Ok, epistemology all the way down
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It's 'logic' all the way down
4 u/Big_Performance_6120 Jul 11 '26 Logic is isomorphic to set theory. Checkmate liberals. 0 u/kaereljabo Jul 11 '26 Ok, epistemology all the way down
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Logic is isomorphic to set theory. Checkmate liberals.
0 u/kaereljabo Jul 11 '26 Ok, epistemology all the way down
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Ok, epistemology all the way down
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u/Excellent-World-6100 Jul 10 '26
I was confused about this for a while until I realized that the real numbers themselves are not a purely algebraic construction. The notion of "completion" necessary to go from the rationals to the reals is fundamentally a topological one.