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Comment author: benelliott 12 July 2012 08:05:26PM 3 points [-]

when we say "statement X in formal system Y is true", we mean X is consistent with the axioms of Y.

By this definition, both the continuum hypothesis and the negation of the continuum hypothesis are true in ZFC