[FOM] natural intermediate r.e. degrees

[Stephen G Simpson]

This posting concerns my recent paper "An Extension of the Recursively
Enumerable Turing Degrees", available at
http://www.math.psu.edu/simpson/papers/.

Referring to my paper, Harvey Friedman Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:47:48 -0500
said:

 > This does not bear on the issue of the meaning/existence of
 > "natural intermediate r.e. degrees". 

I emphatically disagree.  

Interested persons may e-mail me privately.

-- Steve