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minus-squareluciole (he/him)linkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-23 months agoI’d say if your axioms don’t hold you wouldn’t go far in your quest for truth.
minus-squareMalgaslinkfedilinkEnglish10•3 months agoThe 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.
minus-squareluciole (he/him)linkfedilinkEnglish2•3 months agoOf course in boolean algebra “if [false] then p” is always true no matter “p”, but it’s not telling us much.
minus-square@lolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-23 months agoThat’s not a gotcha. It’s basically just the definition of an axiom.
I’d say if your axioms don’t hold you wouldn’t go far in your quest for truth.
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.
Of course in boolean algebra “if [false] then p” is always true no matter “p”, but it’s not telling us much.
That’s not a gotcha. It’s basically just the definition of an axiom.