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Hilbert's alleged proof of the Continuum Hypothesis in "On the Infinite"
As is known, Hilbert attempted a proof sketch of the Continuum Hypothesis in the latter part of his paper, "On the Infinite". It is also known that it is false.
Has there ever been a published ...
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Last Status of Feferman's Conjecture on Indefinite Value of Continuum
The "true" value of $2^{\aleph_0}$ is one of the most fundamental open questions of mathematics and its philosophy. Hundreds of set theoretic results during the last century don't say anything more ...
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Conceptual structuralism and continuum hypothesis
In Ferefman's paper 'Is the Continuum Hypothesis a definite mathematical problem?', he argues that within the philosophy of conceptual structuralism, the continuum hypothesis is not a definite ...
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A question regarding the relation between Freiling's Axiom of Symmetry and real-valued measurable cardnals
A major argument against Freiling's Axiom of Symmetry is the following (this from the wikipedia article of the same name):
"The naive probabalistic notion used by Freiling tacitly assumes that there ...