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    The All Seeing Leprechaun

    Putting an adjective in front of a noun does not in itself make a mathematical concept. Cantor declared that an `infinite set' is a set which is not finite. Surely that is unsatisfactory, as Cantor no doubt suspected himself. It's like declaring that an `all-seeing Leprechaun' is a Leprechaun which can see everything. Or an `unstoppable mouse' is a mouse which cannot be stopped

    From a nice critical essay on Set Theory as religion and other problems with foundational mathematics in the Academy by N J Wildberger.
    • 17 September 2007
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