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by KK7NIL
380 days ago
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I wasn't trying to make an appeal to authority due 100 years having passed, that was tangential to my point that almost all modern math now sits on formalized axioms, which it did not do before the foundational crisis in math was resolved (about 100 years ago). Comparing the axioms of math to relativity in physics is just nonsensical.
Math is independent of observation, if a proof is formally correct now, it will always be correct under that chosen axiomatic system. Sure, we can play with different axioms (as others commented, it's common to drop the axiom of choice), but that doesn't invalidate the previous work at all. |
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The concepts such as true, false, equal, greater than - all refer to human experience with counting things or perception of existence etc.