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- From: hrubin@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Numbers and sets
- Message-ID: <C0nCwx.4KH@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
- References: <1992Dec23.175145.18528@guinness.idbsu.edu> <1992Dec27.035413.18857@husc3.harvard.edu> <1ioee8INN9sc@bang.hal.COM>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 16:38:56 GMT
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- In article <1ioee8INN9sc@bang.hal.COM> landman@hal.COM (Howard Landman) writes:
- >>>>In article <1992Dec19.140927.18700@husc3.harvard.edu>,
- >>>>zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
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- >>MZ:
- >>>>>The Axioms of Foundation and Choice are analytically
- >>>>>true of sets;
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- >At the risk of appearing to agree with Bill Taylor ...
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- >How can anyone say this when it's been known for a couple of decades that
- >the Axiom of Choice is independent of the other axioms of set theory?
- >That is, you can assume it's true and get a consistent theory, but you
- >can also assume it's false and get a consistent theory.
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- It has been known for much longer that the Axiom of Foundation is likewise
- independent.
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