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Some "axiom of choice" and "dependent choice" issues
I am probably about to ask some fairly basic questions, and yet I have found it quite hard to find the answers to these.
If I understand correctly, mathematicians tend to be quite happy working with …
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Is "the purely probabilistic version of Freiling's axiom of symmetry" disprovable in ZFC?
I'm trying to pinpoint the "intuitive argument" for Freiling's Axiom of Symmetry. It's meant to be a "probabilistic" argument, so thinking about what seems to me to be the probabilistic intuition, it …
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Is it consistent with ZFC that the real line is approachable by sets with no accumulation po...
Let $P$ denote the following proposition:
There exists a set $S$ of subsets of $\mathbb{R}$ such that
$S$ is totally ordered by inclusion;
each member of $S$ has no accumulation points;
the union of …
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Which part(s) of this proof of Goodstein's Theorem are not expressible in Peano arithmetic?
EDIT: Noah Schweber helpfully points out that $\mathsf{ACA}_0$ is a conservative extension of Peano arithmetic in which certain aspects of my proof not expressible in Peano arithmetic are expressible. …
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Heuristic interpretations of the PA-unprovability of Goodstein's Theorem
I've relatively recently learned about Goodstein's Theorem and its unprovability in Peano arithmetic (the Kirby-Paris Theorem). I do not have any real knowledge of formal logic; but I think I've seen …