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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Subject: Re: ZFC etc. (was Re: Report on Philosophies of Physicists)
- In-Reply-To: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu's message of Tue, 15 Sep 92 16:56:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <TORKEL.92Sep15200707@bast.sics.se>
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- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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- <1992Sep15.165635.12446@galois.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:07:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep15.165635.12446@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu
- (John C. Baez) writes:
-
- >The propositional calculus might be inconsistent and we have somehow failed
- >to notice this so far;
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- This is an observation of the same kind as "perhaps the fundamental
- theorem of arithmetic is not really true", or "perhaps Euclid's
- algorithm sometimes gives the wrong answer", and so on. Not very
- exciting stuff.
-