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Re: [mizar] [Timothy Y. Chow] Re: [FOM] Formalization Thesis





On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Freek Wiedijk wrote:

Personally I always worry about the choice operator, which is
implicitly present in Mizar.  I like foundations that don't
have that, but then how do you translate your formal
mathematics that implicitly is built on it?

The Axioms of Choice is a theorem in TG.

I wasn't talking about AC.  (Who would want to do mathematics
without AC?)

who would want to do constructive mathematics? :-)

I was talking about a choice _operator._  So
a functor that given a non empty set gives you an element
of that set.

I vaguely remember hearing from various sources (I think last time from Bob Solovay) that the difference between choice and strong choice is not a big deal

Josef