From: Warrigal (ihope127+w@gmail.com)
Date: Wed May 27 2009 - 11:24:05 MDT
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:21 PM, John K Clark <johnkclark@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> You may add it to your list as another axiom.
>
> Tou could, but if you can’t prove it then you don’t know if it’s true,
> adding it as a axiom is very dangerous. Suppose you add as an axiom that
> Goldbach’s Conjecture is true and then somebody crunching numbers on a
> computer find’s a counterexample to prove it false? Mathematics would
> collapse.
If that were as dangerous as you say, Russell's paradox would have
ruined us forever.
--Warrigal
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