Joseph Mileti, "Modern Mathematical Logic" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Are the Primitives Limited in Number?
Mathematics can be done with a very tiny set of primitivesbitem. And then you work with these ives and put them together in various ways. There's a long philosophical debate as to whether this is an invented thing, or a a thing. But i don't believe it's just a product of the human mind. I think if we come across other beings in the universe, we will agree on what follows logically from other things. We might havedifferent primitives might ave diferent setups, but will agree on the fundamental statements. Wel both agree that there are infinitely many prime numbers and all sorts of other things.
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