> > Unless WM can list the things he "holds to be self evident", he does not > > have anything to build on. > > There is no necessity to list them in mathematics. Every sober mind > knows them.
They are known to all Scotsmen.
That is, they are known to all *true* Scotsmen.
-- hz "Mathematics is best done without axioms." -- Wolfgang Mückenheim corrects Euclid --
