consensus over certain foundational assumptions involving set theory and infinity.
Are you referring to things like the Axiom of Choice (which is obviously true), the well-ordering principle (obviously false), and Zorn’s lemma (who can say)?
(The joke here is that, given the other axioms of ZF set theory, each of these three things can be used to prove the other two—they’re either all true or all false, regardless of how plausible or implausible they might seem on their own.)
Are you referring to things like the Axiom of Choice (which is obviously true), the well-ordering principle (obviously false), and Zorn’s lemma (who can say)?
Yeah, that stuff is weird.
(The joke here is that, given the other axioms of ZF set theory, each of these three things can be used to prove the other two—they’re either all true or all false, regardless of how plausible or implausible they might seem on their own.)