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Re: unable to prove?
Posted:
Aug 27, 2012 6:07 PM
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"Frederick Williams" <freddywilliams@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:503BDB35.E2CE8638@btinternet.com...
> dilettante wrote:
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>> [...] I suppose it isn't known whether positing the
>> existence of the power set of the reals leads to a contradiction. Surely
>> also taking the existence of this set as an axiom doesn't do anything to
>> resolve CH (of course, as far as anyone knows - if it leads to a
>> contradiction it resolves everything, in a sense)? (Yes, that's a
>> question)
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> It is known that if the axioms of set theory are consistent then they
> remain so with the addition of either CH (or even GCH) or not-CH.
But what do the axioms of set theory have to say about the power set of
the reals? Is that a set under the axioms, not a set, or are the axioms
agnostic on the matter?
>
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