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Article #1366Re: Classifying the Axiom of Choice
From: William J. Rapaport
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1988 15:41
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1988 15:41
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In article <7123@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:
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>I favor analytic a posteriori, myself. "analytic", since all mathematical
>truths are, and "a posteriori", since AC is based on our derived perceptions
>of sets.
I guess you've not read Kant. All mathematical propositions are
synthetic apriori for him. By that, I'd take the Axiom of Choice as
synthetic apriori, too.
William J. Rapaport
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!boulder!sunybcs!rapaport From: rapaport@sunybcs.uucp (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech Subject: Re: Classifying the Axiom of Choice Message-ID: <8768@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: 23 Feb 88 15:41:46 GMT References: <1890@mind.UUCP> <25011@linus.UUCP> <7123@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: nobody@sunybcs.UUCP Reply-To: rapaport@gort.UUCP (William J. Rapaport) Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 17