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Single Idea 19632
[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 1. Axiomatisation
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Full Idea
This earth is a place where can confirm anything with an equal likelihood: here axioms and frenzies are interchangeable.
Gist of Idea
An axiom has no more authority than a frenzy
Source
E.M. Cioran (A Short History of Decay [1949], 3)
Book Ref
Cioran,E.M.: 'A Short History of Decay', ed/tr. Howard,Richard [Penguin 2010], p.123
A Reaction
A perceptive and poetic expression of the modern anti-Euclidean and anti-Fregean view of axioms, as purely formal features of a model or system.
The
31 ideas
with the same theme
[giving basic truths from which some system is deduced]:
13004
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Aristotle's axioms (unlike Euclid's) are assumptions awaiting proof
[Aristotle, by Leibniz]
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13002
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It is always good to reduce the number of axioms
[Leibniz]
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17624
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To understand axioms you must grasp their logical power and priority
[Frege, by Burge]
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16866
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Tracing inference backwards closes in on a small set of axioms and postulates
[Frege]
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16868
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The essence of mathematics is the kernel of primitive truths on which it rests
[Frege]
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16870
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Axioms are truths which cannot be doubted, and for which no proof is needed
[Frege]
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16871
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A truth can be an axiom in one system and not in another
[Frege]
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16886
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The truth of an axiom must be independently recognisable
[Frege]
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17963
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The facts of geometry, arithmetic or statics order themselves into theories
[Hilbert]
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17966
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Axioms must reveal their dependence (or not), and must be consistent
[Hilbert]
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6109
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Some axioms may only become accepted when they lead to obvious conclusions
[Russell]
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17630
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The sources of a proof are the reasons why we believe its conclusion
[Russell]
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17629
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Which premises are ultimate varies with context
[Russell]
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17640
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Finding the axioms may be the only route to some new results
[Russell]
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17886
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The limitations of axiomatisation were revealed by the incompleteness theorems
[Gödel, by Koellner]
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19292
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Logic doesn't split into primitive and derived propositions; they all have the same status
[Wittgenstein]
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19632
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An axiom has no more authority than a frenzy
[Cioran]
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17606
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Axioms reveal the underlying assumptions, and reveal relationships between different areas
[Kline]
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17622
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We come to believe mathematical propositions via their grounding in the structure
[Burge]
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17779
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'Classificatory' axioms aim at revealing similarity in morphology of structures
[Mayberry]
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17778
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Axiomatiation relies on isomorphic structures being essentially the same
[Mayberry]
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17780
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'Eliminatory' axioms get rid of traditional ideal and abstract objects
[Mayberry]
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13416
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Mathematics must be based on axioms, which are true because they are axioms, not vice versa
[Tait, by Parsons,C]
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17605
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Hilbert's geometry and Dedekind's real numbers were role models for axiomatization
[Maddy]
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17625
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If two mathematical themes coincide, that suggest a single deep truth
[Maddy]
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9649
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Axioms are either self-evident, or stipulations, or fallible attempts
[Brown,JR]
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23443
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The axioms of group theory are not assertions, but a definition of a structure
[Linnebo]
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23444
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To investigate axiomatic theories, mathematics needs its own foundational axioms
[Linnebo]
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17761
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A compact axiomatisation makes it possible to understand a field as a whole
[Walicki]
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17763
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Axiomatic systems are purely syntactic, and do not presuppose any interpretation
[Walicki]
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17930
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Axioms are 'categorical' if all of their models are isomorphic
[Colyvan]
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