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dooglius
75 days ago
Agreed; e.g. if you prove something about the real numbers, the matter of how R is constructed out of your axiomatic system doesn't matter
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jfarmer
74 days ago
The picture isn't quite so clean in the constructive context, which is what many of these proof systems are rooted in, e.g.,
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/236483/difference-between...
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pas
74 days ago
there are questions where the abstraction of real numbers becomes leaky, and some axioms (or their lack) poke through.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice#Real_numbers
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