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

anzaurres1@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> Jesse F. Hughes wrote:
>
>> > If you don't know what an axiom is, ask your mommy.
>
>> Really, you are embarrassing yourself with this line.
>
> You are right. But I don't understand the purpose of your previous post
> to me. Is this top show that we non-logicians don't understand the
> concept of proof?

Previous post? I think you are confusing me with Torkel.

>> There is no concept of a statement being true or false "in an
>> axiomatic system" in logic.
>
> So, what's your point? That it's wrong for a mathematician to say that,
> given some particular set of axioms, the statement "0=1" is false?

That's not my words you're responding to.

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