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Axioms are not wrong if you can derive some math from them. They may not correspond to anything in our world, and then we usually discover something that does.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Axioms are not wrong if you can derive some math from them.
They may not correspond to anything in our world, and then we usually discover something that does.
- tsimionescu 3y agoThe point wasn't that they're wrong, but instead that they are arbitrary. You could create a mathematical system with entirely different axioms than what we explore typically, and it would only be different in how usefully it maps onto real world concepts.