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Comprehensive path: Learn more than you wanted to know!\n\tAdd all pages\nb. Substantial path: All the most important stuff\n\tAdd 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,14\nc. Compact path: Only the very important stuff\n\tAdd 2, 3, 5, 7, 10\nd. First-time path: Learn the important basics without getting too bogged down.\n\tAdd 1. 2 (intuitive), 2 (definition), 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10\ne. Overview path: Just get a taste of the axiom\n\tAdd 1, 2 (intuitive), 2 (definition), 3, 4, 5, 7\nf. Custom Path\n\n\n\nIf the user chooses to customize a path:\n1. What do you know about set theory, mathematical logic and axioms?\na. Almost nothing\n\tAdd Definitions (Intuitive)\n\tAdd 3. Finite Sets\n\tAdd 6. Banach-Tarski\n\tAdd 7. ZF Axioms and Existence of a Choice Function\n\tAdd 8. How can something be neither True nor False\nb. Well, I've used them for other maths, but haven't studied them directly.\n\tAdd 2. Definitions\t\n\tAdd 3. Finite Sets\n\tAdd 7. ZF Axioms and Existence of a Choice Function\n\tAdd 8. 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