I am such a ... well, I don't know what this says about me

Oct 26, 2007 23:20

... but this made me laugh out loud for several minutes:

Just as liberal feminists are frequently content with a minimal agenda of legal and social equality for women and 'pro-choice', so liberal (and even some socialist) mathematicians are often content to work within the hegemonic Zermelo-Fraenkel framework (which, reflecting its nineteenth-century liberal origins, already incorporates the axiom of equality) supplemented only by the axiom of choice.

For the context, which is not sincere, see here.
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