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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Post-Goedel confidences
- Message-ID: <97714@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 16:25:36 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.113847@IASTATE.EDU> <e0N3TB8w165w@kalki33> <1992Nov13.195833.12085@athena.mit.edu> <1992Nov13.221725.10364@galois.mit.edu>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: tycchow@nevanlinna.mit.edu (Timothy Y. Chow)
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- In article <1992Nov13.221725.10364@galois.mit.edu>, tycchow@nevanlinna (Timothy Y. Chow) writes:
- > The analogy with Goldbach's conjecture that you bring up later is
- >a good one. In the past, mathematicians would have been confident in
- >saying, "Well, we don't have a proof either way yet, but we know that
- >there *is* a proof one way or the other. The problem is a mathematical
- >one and can be solved by mathematical means." After Godel, nobody is
- >willing to say even this.
-
- That's simply not true. Platonism and logic are a powerful force in
- assertions regarding open problems. Just sometimes folks are wrong.
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
-