Mathematical perception
“I don’t see any reason,” [Gödel] wrote, “why we should have less confidence in this kind of perception, i.e., in mathematical intuition, than in sense perception, which induces us to build up physical theories.” According to Gödel, since the continuum is a real object, it was only a matter of time before new axioms would be discovered that would settle the continuum hypothesis, axioms that would “force themselves upon us as being true.”