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   julesh (julesh@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 20:35:06 JST julesh

   • Sophie Huiberts

   @sophiehuiberts Depends on the subfield: nearly always yes, but with just barely enough no for that to be my answer (for example there are perfectly reasonable questions eg. in general topology that work out to be equivalent to the continuum hypothesis modulo ZFC, and I don't believe there is a consensus on the truth of the ground truth of CH)

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     Sophie Huiberts (sophiehuiberts@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 21:03:30 JST Sophie Huiberts

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     @julesh i admit, i hadn't thought about that interpretation yet. personally i was thinking about matters of which questions are interesting or worth studying and why. how someone answers those questions is core to their mathematical practice and is profoundly different between people, places and decades

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     julesh (julesh@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 02:36:04 JST julesh

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     • Sophie Huiberts

     @oblomov @sophiehuiberts Good question... I found a good list of concrete-looking questions equivalent to CH
     https://mathoverflow.net/questions/459139/what-is-the-most-concrete-feeling-equivalent-formulation-of-the-continuum-hypo
     but I don't think I have any gut feeling that any of them are obviously true or false

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     Oblomov (oblomov@sociale.network)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 02:36:05 JST Oblomov

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     • Sophie Huiberts

     @julesh @sophiehuiberts is there a CH equivalent of «The axiom of choice is obviously true, the well-ordering principle obviously false, and who can tell about Zorn's lemma?» ?