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- From: landsbur@troi.cc.rochester.edu (S. Landsburg)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Unix denies the axiom of choice
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.174532.19663@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 17:45:32 GMT
- References: <17ui6kINNsft@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <pmanne-010992093107@ma-mac29.uio.no.>
- Sender: landsbur@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Steve Landsburg)
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- In article <pmanne-010992093107@ma-mac29.uio.no.> pmanne@math.uio.no (Per Manne) writes:
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- >The following proof is found in Seven Years of Manifold (1968-1980),
- >edited by Ian Stewart and John Jaworski.
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- >THEOREM (due to Anselm, Aquinas, and others.)
- >The Axiom of Choice is equivalent to the existence of a unique God.
- >
- >PROOF:
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- (Remainder of article deleted.)
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- I tried to save this posting to a file called "god". I got back the message
- that "god does not exist".
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- Steve Landsburg
- landsbur@troi.cc.rochester.edu
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