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Single Idea 19632

[catalogued under 5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 1. Axiomatisation]

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 Reference

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.