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But proofs always come back to axioms, and on what basis do we accept axioms? That they sound intuitively right. So we've just kicked the problem upstairs a bit, we can't avoid using our intuition.

Personally I'm more likely to believe 2 + 2 = 4, something I can easily check to my own satisfaction using four objects, than I am to believe the Axiom of Choice.

But are people more likely to accept the axioms of Principia Mathematica (and the soundness of every logical step from page 1 to 300) than they are to accept the notion that 2 + 2 = 4 based on intuitive notions of what twoness, fourness and plusness are?

But they could have extradited him before he ever went into the embassy. They didn't. Only Sweden is currently attempting to extradite him.

Angkor Wat was built in the twelfth century AD, and is well within the known technological capabilities of the Khmer empire at the time.

A vimana, which from googling appears to be some kind of flying temple in Sanskrit myths, does not appear to have actually existed.