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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: consequences of the Axiom of Choice
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- Date: 9 Oct 92 15:26:06 GMT
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- In-reply-to: holmes@opal.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes)
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- In article <1992Oct8.183047.5338@guinness.idbsu.edu>, holmes@opal (Randall Holmes) writes:
- >The "alas" was somewhat ironic in intent. The mere existence of
- >Solovay's model shows that _all_ constructive work can be assumed to
- >keep one in the realm of the measurable, does it not?
-
- That is true. But assuming such is not very constructive, now is it?
- A set being measurable is more than just a state of mind--it's a specific
- assertion that, for example, there are inner and outer witnesses to the
- set's measure that are arbitrarily close to each other. If you're going
- to assume *that*, you as might as well stick to AC in the first place.
-
- > I don't think
- >that applications of the prime ideal theorem are really needed for
- >classical measure theory!
-
- That's precisely the point I had brought up when I mentioned PIT. Do
- you or don't you count the compactness of the infinite unit cube and what
- it means for probability theory as part of "classical measure theory"?
-
- > The interesting thing is that Solovay's
- >result requires consistency strength more than that of ZFC; the
- >assumption that all sets of reals are Lebesgue measurable enables one
- >to intepret ZFC + "there is an inaccessible"; ZF + "all sets are
- >measurable" is stronger than ZFC!
-
- All the more reason for constructivists to be unhappy. This certainly
- rules out those constructivists who are so because of contradictophobia!
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
-