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luciole@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’d say if your axioms don’t hold you would go far in your quest for truth.

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Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The thing that is absolute is a predicate of the form “if [axioms] then [theorems]”.

And the fun thing about if statements is that they can be true even when the premise is false.

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- luciole@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Of course in boolean algebra “if [false] then p” is always true no matter “p”, but it’s not telling us much.
  
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lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s not a gotcha. It’s literally the point of stating axioms.

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