I await your proof that the members of an uncountably infinite set can be put into a linear list.
You are still missing this simple
logical fact:
The arrangement of an infinite set, whether it is arranged as a tree or as a list,
has no influence on its cardinality, which can be (by using the standard terminology) countably infinite or uncountable.
Take, for example, these two infinite
logical trees:
Code:
* 0
/ \ / \
/ \ / \
/ \ / \
/ \ / \
/ \ / \
/ \ / \
/ \ / \
/ \ / \
0 1 0 1
/ \ / \ / \ / \
/ \ / \ / \ / \
/ \ / \ / \ / \
/ \ / \ / \ / \
0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1
/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \
/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \
0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1
/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \
0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1
. . . . . .
The left tree is an
ordered set of distinct logical connectives from contradiction (000...) to tautology (111...), and there is no problem to define a bijection from
N to the left tree.
The right tree is an
ordered set of distinct logical connectives from contradiction (000...) to 0111.., and there is no problem to define a bijection from
N to the right tree.
Cantor "prooved" that there is no bijection form
N to
R, by using the fact that there are logical trees that do not include infinitely many logical connectives (Cantor's diagonal argument).
Cantor's diagonal argument does not prevent the
logical fact that there is bijection from
N to the left
logical tree or to the right
logical tree.
Moreover, similarly to what is shown here, the fact that |S| < |P(S)| by Cantor's theorem (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor's_theorem ) does not prevent the fact that S and P(S)
are already uncountable, exactly as
N and the arbitrary mixed set of distinct paths
are already uncountable. So in both cases we can ignore the fact that we can define an element that is not paired with some
N (or some S) element.
This revelation does not impress.
I totally agree with you, but Cantor is the person that used such facts in order to show that
N can't be (by using the standard terminology) uncountable.
I proved that his very notion of infinite sets was wrong (more details are given in
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11482631&postcount=2105) and my prove is directly based on
ordered logical connectives that, by definition, can't be illogical.