TFW you realize there's only a countable amount of proofs

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>not knowing about the proof continuum
I bet your proofs don't even contain uncountably many steps

Doesnt it fuck with your brain that even some of the simplest kinds of math objects we know like real numbers are bigger in cardinality than the number of proofs. Imagine how little we can know about math

Just work in a countable model of set theory, so there will be just as many proofs as there are real numbers.

if you picked arbitrarily from the set of possible theorems, only a very tiny fraction of them would be provable. the vast majority of mathematical facts are unknowable.

please define the measure you're using before making such statements
thanks

A countable set must be a small fraction of an uncountable set by any reasonable definition of size.

TFW you realize there's at least an uncountable amount of axioms

Prove it or it didnt happen.

Take any theorem+proof concerning the reals, then change it to say a specific real number instead of any real.