consist in its fruitfulness in consequences, its "shedding light upon a wholediscipline", and its yielding “powerful methods for solving given problems"
([9]. p.183). Mathematical results (facts “not known at Cantor's time") are
also invoked in the attempt to explain the prediction that Cantor's conjecture
will turn out to be wrong. Thus, the moral of [9] is that in formulating axiom
candidates for set theory, one not only is committed to the search for general
motivating principles that justify them, but one must also take into account
a corpus of already existing and accepted mathematical results, upon which
the new axiom(s) should shed light, or at the very least, not irreconcilably
contradict.
The approach that we present here shares many features, though not all. ofGödel's program for new axioms.Let us briefly illustrate it.The Hyperuni-
verse Program is an attempt to clarify which first-order set-theoretic state- AB) ments (beyond ZFC and its implications) are to be regarded as true in V. bycreating a context in which different pictures of the set-theoretic universe can
be compared. This context is the hyperuniverse, defined as the collection of all
countable transitive models of ZFC. The comparison of such models evokes
principles(principles of maximaliry and onniscience, as we will name two
of them) that suggest criteria for preferring. on justifiable grounds,certain
universes of sets over others.³ Starting from criteria for preferred universes,
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