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mafuy
11mo ago
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Yes. Prominent example is the axiom of choice. There was a LOT of discussion about it by mathematicians.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/axiom-choice/
For instance, with it, you can double the volume of a body by looking at it from a weird angle.
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SetTheorist
11mo ago
That's a very misleading description of Banach-Tarski. You need to break up the body into a few (very weird) pieces and maneuver them (via only rigid motions - rotations and translations).
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