Document comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Jayson_Virissimo 03 September 2012 05:18AM

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Comment author: Document 09 September 2012 06:21:59PM 0 points [-]

Isn't the point of math that all mathematical truths are logically equivalent? (In beore Gödel.)

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 10 September 2012 02:34:24AM 1 point [-]

Depends on the axioms you're using.

Comment author: Kindly 09 September 2012 06:29:59PM 1 point [-]

Well, there's an informal notion that if two theorems T1 and T2 are both true, yet T1 <=> T2 is much easier to prove than either T1 and T2, then the two are equivalent. (There's also the formal notion that two axioms are equivalent if assuming either one lets you prove the other, but I don't think that's especially relevant here.)

That's not close to being the most confused part of the comment you're replying to.