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Odradek

Paul Cohen invented the method of forcing while searching for a model of ZFC in which the axiom of choice or the continuum hypothesis fails. Forcing adjoins to some given model of set theory additional sets in order to create a larger model with properties determined (i.e. "forced") by the construction and the original model. For example, Cohen's construction adjoins additional subsets of the natural numbers without changing any of the cardinal numbers of the original model. Forcing is also one of two methods for proving relative consistency by finitistic methods, the other method being Boolean-valued models.

Therefore Maoism.

This isn't some wild empiricism like biology, this is science.

Sredni Vashtar

A lot of the more authoritarian strains of Hegelian dialectical thought try to claim that science is on their side. Really, it's just religion of a different flavour. Maoism, Stalinism, Fascism, Strasserism, Nazism—they are all cults of a sort, rather than simple ideologies or schools of thought.

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lol badiou

Sredni Vashtar

Badiou is the High King of philosophy trolls. Only Derrida could best him, but Derrida let everyone know that he was trolling.

Klinotaxis

it woudl be cool if i understood forcing but model theory is too hard for lil old me

Yarrun XIX

There's nothing more inherently scientific than making fun of other disciplines, is there?

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Klinotaxis said:

it woudl be cool if i understood forcing but model theory is too hard for lil old me

I know the basics of, like, how a statement can be true in some models and false in others but I don't know much about forcing

maybe you could use forcing to prove, like, maoism is true in one model, and libertarianism true in another

Yarrun XIX said:

There's nothing more inherently scientific than making fun of other disciplines, is there?

I don't think so, no.

Klinotaxis

(making fun of people you don't like in the same field)