Is that a very good argument though? To believe that there is a reason to do something simply because lots of people do so, sounds like a bias to me...
Elcyc
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- Elcyc 29 Nov 2013 1:48 UTC2 pointsin reply to: Lumifer’s comment on: On Walmart, And Who Bears Responsibility For the Poor
I feel that the sentence
is a little questionable to begin with. What exactly is an “independent” statement in this context? The only way to produce a statement about whether 2 + 2 = 4 holds, is to write a proof that it holds (or doesn’t hold). But in a meaningful mathematical system you can’t have two independent proofs for the same statement. Two proofs for the same thing are either both right or both wrong, or they aren’t proofs in the first place.