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Remark 91

[02C]“The Axiom of Choice is obviously true, the well-ordering principle obviously false, and who can tell about Zorn’s lemma?” — Jerry Bona 1

This is a joke 2 : although the three are all mathematically equivalent, many mathematicians find the axiom of choice to be intuitive, the well-ordering principle to be counterintuitive, and Zorn’s lemma to be too complex for any intuition.

  1. As cited in [ 17 ] .
  2. Paragraph quoted from [ .
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