Re: Skolem Again

david petry says...

>So if you create a horrendously complex mythology which makes no
>testable predictions, I couldn't be "skeptical" of your conclusions?

If you are talking about set theory, it's not horrendously complex.
And it makes plenty of testable predictions. It predicts in particular
that PA is consistent, (which is falsifiable by discovering a proof
of a contradiction from the axioms of PA).

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Daryl McCullough
Ithaca, NY

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