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What makes a good axiom?
How should axioms be justified? By appeal to intuition, or sensory perception? Or are axioms legitimated merely indirectly, by their logical consequences? Plato and Aristotle disagreed, and later Newton disagreed even mo...
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What makes a good axiom? is an episode from Opinionated History of Mathematics by Intellectual Mathematics. How should axioms be justified? By appeal to intuition, or sensory perception? Or are axioms legitimated merely indirectly, by their...
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Published Oct 4, 2020, 35:21 long, audio available.
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