Re: Help in answering news story on refutation of fermat's last theorem

From: Torkel Franzen <torkel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 11 May 2005 20:05:20 +0200

"Mark Nudelman" <markn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I wonder what he thinks it means for an axiom to be "false". Axioms can be
> inconsistent, but how can they be false?

The same way any other statement can be false. If you take as an
axiom "0=1", you have a false axiom.
.

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