 Quote by PatrickPowers
Right, the idea was to have a small set of axioms from which all physics follows.
However general relativity is not built this way. The definitions are circular, which axiomatics does not allow.
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It is easy to remove circularity from any set of postulates, just be rephrasing things properly.
Otherwise, Euclid's axioms for elementary geometry (_the_ paradigm fior an axiom system) would have to be regarded as circular, too.