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Old 05-29-2007   #59 (permalink)
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Default Re: What are your axioms?

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Originally Posted by Jasper84 View Post
Things that cannot be proven wrong need not be true.(have you put enough thought in that part of your post?) For some mathematical things it is actually proven that they cannot be proven false and also not cannot be proven true. These are axioms, precisely because they cannot be proven. (sometimes axioms can be proven by taking other axioms though, said something in this vain earlier.)
For example, the Axiom of Choice.
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