Re:Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See
by Retric on Friday April 21, 2023 @03:27PM
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Hardly, there are sets of axioms where 1 = 1 which already show this in exquisite detail.
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Re:Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Friday April 21, 2023 @03:42PM
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I'm not sure what you mean by this, particularly this phrasing: "sets of axioms where 1 = 1". 1 = 1 is an axiom, not something that's proven by any set of axioms.
But I'm willing to believe I'm simply naive here. You say there is some set of axioms which prove that 1 = 1. Are those axioms not agreements? Since you seem to be familiar, what are those axioms?
Re:Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See
by Retric on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:33PM
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What you are missing is 1 = 1 isn’t inherently true on it’s own.
There are sets of axioms where 1 = 1 is false, different sets where it’s undefined, and finally sets of axioms where 1 = 1 is true.
However, for a given set of axioms there is no choice and nothing to agree upon. That’s what makes math universally true.