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178 | Jody Azzouni on What Is and Isn't Real

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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I'm in Favor of Being Humble. I Like That.

'I would be happier if there were some principled reason why i should expect the laws of physics to be just as good to morrow as they were yesterday,' he says. 'You know, aalove. No one ever promised you a rose garden.' He goes on to say that when your axioms are powerful enough to include arithmetic, what follows from the axioms is not the whole story because of these different models. But then there's this extra leap that comes at the end - we can find other axioms that more powerfully dictate p or not p. That means there are more truths that are not being captured by the axiom system.

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