(December 23, 2013 at 4:32 am)Esquilax Wrote:(December 23, 2013 at 4:02 am)rasetsu Wrote: That's not technically correct. I'd also dispute the validity of cogito ergo sum, but these are fine points. Insisting that axioms be self-evident would appear to be a form of foundationalism. There's nothing that requires an axiom to be self-evident, and many useful axioms aren't (this crops up a lot in mathematics).
Okay, I'm interested: how would you go about doing that?
Some other time.