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5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 1. Axiomatisation

9649	Axioms are either self-evident, or stipulations, or fallible attempts [Brown,JR]
	Full Idea: The three views one could adopt concerning axioms are that they are self-evident truths, or that they are arbitrary stipulations, or that they are fallible attempts to describe how things are.
	From: James Robert Brown (Philosophy of Mathematics [1999], Ch.10)
	A reaction: Presumably modern platonists like the third version, with others choosing the second, and hardly anyone now having the confidence to embrace the first.