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   Mikko to All   
   Re: Dark Points   
   17 Dec 25 12:10:45   
   
   From: mikko.levanto@iki.fi   
      
   On 15/12/2025 19:18, wm wrote:   
   > The actual infinity is for instance when we "consider the points of an   
   > interval as a totality that is completely existing" [Hilbert, 1925]. The   
   > points of a line, when completely existing, have a first and a last one   
   > because never two or more can exist besides each other. This cannot   
   > happen other than by dark points.   
   As no definition of "dark point" is given it is possible that no point   
   is dark and that every point is dark. The "proof" does not identify   
   any feature of a point that would dfferentiate dark from non-dark.   
      
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   Mikko   
      
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