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[-] luciole@beehaw.org 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 10 points 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.

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 2 points 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.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's not a gotcha. It's basically just the definition of an axiom.

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