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> Why can't you use the natural numbers? Because the rest of the axioms of ZF aren't sufficient to construct them. > what's an example of a theorem that canno
by qsort 4y ago
> Why can't you use the natural numbers?
Because the rest of the axioms of ZF aren't sufficient to construct them.
> what's an example of a theorem that cannot be proven without the Axiom of Infinity?
That there exists a set equal to the natural numbers up to isomorphism, that there exist well-defined operations "+", "-", "*", "/" with usual semantics, that there exist the usual sets of rational, real, complex numbers.