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Latest comment: 9 months ago by C7X in topic Naturality of CH
Naturality of CH[edit source]
Many mathematicians seem to doubt that CH is a natural question, an extreme quote from this position is by Folland:
- "My own feeling, subject to revision in the event of a major breakthrough in set theory, is that if the answer to one's question turns out to depend on the continuum hypothesis, one should give up and ask a different question." ([1])
IIRC the general perception of CH as unnatural is what led Friedman to begin looking for natural statements independent of ZFC (if CH were widely viewed as natural, there would already be a known natural statement independent of ZFC, and his work would be done) C7X (talk) 23:34, 7 September 2023 (UTC)