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The concept of axioms should disprove that notion pretty quickly. If axioms are natural, why do you have to assume them to be true? Why haven't they been prove
by imtringued 3y ago
The concept of axioms should disprove that notion pretty quickly.
If axioms are natural, why do you have to assume them to be true? Why haven't they been proven to be true?
- User23 3y agoBecause we don't have direct access to reality. Axioms exist as parts of models, which are human abstractions. Thus at some point to formally talk about reality we have to make rigorous assumptions about it. That human beings are as good as we are at finding axioms that appear to correspond pretty well to reality is amazing to me. It's a really interesting philosophical question to ask why it is that we are.