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It's only unfalsifiable in the sense that it's proven correct.
by moomin 5y ago
It's only unfalsifiable in the sense that it's proven correct.
- Y_Y 5y agoLe mot juste. (Of course this is all subject to some wishy-washy ZFC "theory" which nobody has ever been able to prove.)
- hrhth 5y agoTheory in math is a suit of axioms and theorems and as such you don't prove it. The best you can do is to prove a statement. Also, ZFC is irrelevant to people who do not do set theory.
- Y_Y 5y agoI'd argue that proving theorems is what makes them theorems. Then again, I assumed what I wrote above was clearly a joke, but it seems it wasn't clear enough.
- hrhth 5y agoA correct statement is a result. An important result is a theorem. Indeed, I must've missed the joke. They often fly over my head.