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		RcouF1uZ4gsC on June 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe... > if the basic axioms of math are true Isn't the problem that you can't prove axioms. We intuitively "know" them to be true but without proof.

crazygringo on June 7, 2019 [–]

You can't use deduction to prove them... but you use induction to show them to be statistically non-violated through experience so far.

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