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Re: Eliminating Quantifiers For Dummies! A(x) E(y) ALL(t)EXIST(u)EaAb ..
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Jan 11, 2012 3:26 PM
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> Just to be clear, do you see the axioms of first-order group theory > (Mendelson's 7 axioms with their explicitly unbounded quantifiers) > to be a workable, alternative set of axioms for that branch of > mathematics we call group theory, or not.
Just to be clear, do you see the axioms of Peano arithmetic to be a workable, alternative set of axioms for that branch of mathematics we call real analysis, or not?
(Or without the parable: why should we think your question matters?)
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