Are all threads on DU constructive?

[Boojatta]

Poll question: Are all threads on DU constructive?

[ohiosmith]

1. Let's hope not.

:shrug:

[Dr. Strange]

2. No.

Thanks to Cantor's axiomitization of set theory, they don't have to be.

[Boojatta]

3. That's a very specialized sense of the word "constructive."

Anyway, I think that some people having surnames starting with "Z" and "F" (for example) have more to do with the actual formulation of the axioms. Cantor provided the initial inspiration, but not the details.

[Dr. Strange]

4. Maybe so, but Fraenkely I don't think we'd have set theory without Cantor.

[struggle4progress]

7. Nonsense. The Dedekind cuts predate Cantor's set theory; and since Dedekind later also

gave the modern set-theoretic explication ("ideal") of Kummer's ideal numbers, it seems likely such ideas were fermenting in his head as well in the 1870s. Of course, his friendship with Cantor after 1874 may have helped a bit too

[struggle4progress]

6. You don't know how to spell "axiomatization," Cantor never axiomatized set theory,

and there aren't any constructive axiomatizations of set theory

:bounce:

Carry on!

[Duer 157099]

5. Define constructive n/t

[ReggieVeggie]

8. construct this!

[Bake]

9. Nice post, Hitler.

:hi:

Bake

[bigwillq]

10. Do they have to be?

:shrug:

I say no, they don't have to be.

[Boojatta]

12. They don't have to be constructive, but ...

that a thread is deemed to not be constructive is reason enough for it to be locked.

[some guy]

11. know

[baldguy]

13. I come to DU for tips on putting up drywall.

[applegrove]

14. The more constructive they are, in terms of pushing the democratic agenda ahead, the

more they get unrec'd!!! Grrrrrrr

[madinmaryland]

15. FUCK YES!!1!! All DU threads are important and constructive. Especially the kitten threads!