Oct 1, 2007
If you don’t believe Euclid’s proof that there are infinitely many primes, then I don’t know why seeing a formal proof in ZF set theory should quell your doubts. You could deny Modus Ponens, you could demand a formal proof for the assertion “The infinitude of primes is a theorem of ZF” itself (ad infinitum), you could refuse to identify the formal notions of ‘prime’ or ‘infinity’ with the informal ones, and so on.
Scott Aaronsonpdf echoes Hofstadter’s Two-part invention

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