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Single Idea 17879

[filed under theme 4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets ]

Full Idea

Axiomatising set theory leads to a relativity of set-theoretic notions, and this relativity is inseparably bound up with every thoroughgoing axiomatisation.

Gist of Idea

Axiomatising set theory makes it all relative

Source

Thoralf Skolem (Remarks on axiomatised set theory [1922], p.296)

Book Ref

'From Frege to Gödel 1879-1931', ed/tr. Heijenoort,Jean van [Harvard 1967], p.296