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  2. Primitive notion - Wikipedia

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    The notions themselves may not necessarily need to be stated; Susan Haack (1978) writes, "A set of axioms is sometimes said to give an implicit definition of its primitive terms." [7] Euclidean geometry: Under Hilbert's axiom system the primitive notions are point, line, plane, congruence, betweenness , and incidence.

  3. Axiom of choice - Wikipedia

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    But the debate is interesting enough that it is considered notable when a theorem in ZFC (ZF plus AC) is logically equivalent (with just the ZF axioms) to the axiom of choice, and mathematicians look for results that require the axiom of choice to be false, though this type of deduction is less common than the type that requires the axiom of ...

  4. Tarski's axioms - Wikipedia

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    The only primitive relations are "betweenness" and "congruence" among points. Tarski's axiomatization is shorter than its rivals, in a sense Tarski and Givant (1999) make explicit. It is more concise than Pieri's because Pieri had only two primitive notions while Tarski introduced three: point, betweenness, and congruence.

  5. Tarski's undefinability theorem - Wikipedia

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    The metalanguage includes primitive notions, axioms, and rules absent from the object language, so that there are theorems provable in the metalanguage not provable in the object language. The undefinability theorem is conventionally attributed to Alfred Tarski. Gödel also discovered the undefinability theorem in 1930, while proving his ...

  6. Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory - Wikipedia

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    The axioms in order below are expressed in a mixture of first order logic and high-level abbreviations. Axioms 1–8 form ZF, while the axiom 9 turns ZF into ZFC. Following Kunen (1980), we use the equivalent well-ordering theorem in place of the axiom of choice for axiom 9. All formulations of ZFC imply that at least one set exists.

  7. Axiomatic system - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics and logic, an axiomatic system is any set of primitive notions and axioms to logically derive theorems.A theory is a consistent, relatively-self-contained body of knowledge which usually contains an axiomatic system and all its derived theorems.

  8. Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory - Wikipedia

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    The primitive notions of his theory were function and argument. Using these notions, he defined class and set. [1] Paul Bernays reformulated von Neumann's theory by taking class and set as primitive notions. [2] Kurt Gödel simplified Bernays' theory for his relative consistency proof of the axiom of choice and the generalized continuum ...

  9. List of first-order theories - Wikipedia

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    The axioms for fields, plus axioms for each prime number p stating that if p 1 = 0 (i.e. the field has characteristic p), then every field element has a pth root. Algebraically closed fields of characteristic p. The axioms for fields, plus for every positive n the axiom that all polynomials of degree n have a root, plus axioms fixing the ...