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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Then again, I thought 1+1=2 is axiomatic (2 being the defined by having a count of one and then another one) So I don’t understand why Bertrand Russel had to spend 86 pages proving it from baser fundamentals.

It is mathematic. Of course it has to be proved.