Re: Am I a crank?

Virgil wrote:

Let's see Zick empirically establish the axiom of infinity, then.

Nobody can. Therefore it does not correspond to (part of an) implicit
definition of some real world thing. Therefore it will do no harm if
we throw it out.

Han de Bruijn

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