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Was it ever proven for A1-4 in ZF?



Presumably: it's not hard. See e.g. https://math.berkeley.edu/~wodzicki/160/Hilbert.pdf §9:

> The axioms, which we have discussed in the previous chapter and have divided into five groups, are not contradictory to one another; that is to say, it is not possible to deduce from these axioms, by any logical process of reasoning, a proposition which is contradictory to any of them. To demonstrate this, it is sufficient to construct a geometry where all of the five groups are fulfilled.

Just formalise this section in ZF, and it drops right out.




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