This paper examines the possibilities of extending Cantors two arguments on the uncountable nature of the set of real numbers to one of its proper denumerable subsets: the set of rational numbers. The paper proves that, unless certain restrictive conditions are satisfied, both extensions are possible. It is therefore indispensable to prove that those conditions are in fact satisfied in Cantors theory of transfinite sets. Otherwise that theory would be inconsistent.
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