Do We Need Sets? For Anything?
Wednesday, December 31st, 2025Lately I’ve been thinking about ZFC, naive set theory, and some other things; and increasingly I find myself wondering, is any of this at all important? Does set theory actually matter? For anything? What, exactly, is the point of sets? Math got a very long way before naive set theory was invented, much less ZFC. Let’s explore.
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