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I am glad to see that Adrian Mathias has taken me to task. Yes, I once gave a lecture with the flamboyant title, “Set theory is obsolete.” In this and in a principles of mathematical activity: Mathematicians do not make pronouncements; they prove theorems. My apologies.
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Mac Lane, S. (1992). Is Mathias an Ontologist?. In: Judah, H., Just, W., Woodin, H. (eds) Set Theory of the Continuum. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications, vol 26. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9754-0_10
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