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Re: Cantor's absurdity, once again, why not?
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Mar 14, 2013 8:32 PM
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On Thursday, March 14, 2013 11:38:51 AM UTC-7, fom wrote:
> More precisely, mathematical facticity relative to
> the epistemic justification of a derivational system
> is more important than mathematical actuality relative
> to dialectical argument.
"liberal (and even some socialist) mathematicians are often content to work within the hegemonic Zermelo?Fraenkel framework (which, reflecting its nineteenth-century liberal origins, already incorporates the axiom of equality) supplemented only by the axiom of choice" ( A. Sokal, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity")
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