The following is quoted from *Set Theory and the Continuum Problem* by Raymond M. Smullyan and Melvin Fitting.

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I always thought that when a statement is not provable nor disprovable, then it is up to convention to decide whether it is true or false. How can we determine the truth of CH if we know it is not provable nor disprovable?

Please explain in layman's language.