[FOM] How much of math is logic?

[Robbie Lindauer]

The existence of the empty set is not a logical truth either.


Robbie Lindauer
robblin at thetip.org



On Feb 26, 2007, at 11:31 AM, joeshipman at aol.com wrote:

>> And the claim that such an assumption is logically true is quite
> controversial.
>
> This is exactly what I was trying to say -- I was careful to
> distinguish the ZFC axiom of Infinity as something that was NOT
> "logical", in order to argue that those parts of math which do not  
> need
> it CAN be thought of as simply logical.