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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Post-Goedel confidences
- Message-ID: <97797@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 14:39:20 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.113847@IASTATE.EDU> <e0N3TB8w165w@kalki33> <1992Nov13.195833.12085@athena.mit.edu> <1992Nov13.221725.10364@galois.mit.edu> <97714@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov15.223651.9419@athena.mit.edu>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: lking@athena.mit.edu (Loren King)
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- In article <1992Nov15.223651.9419@athena.mit.edu>, lking@athena (Loren King) writes:
- >|> >After Godel, nobody is willing to say even this.
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- >|> That's simply not true. Platonism and logic are a powerful force in
- >|> assertions regarding open problems. Just sometimes folks are wrong.
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- >Amusing (well, maybe ... a bit) aside: apparently -- well, according to
- >Bertrand Russell's notes and Autobiography -- Goedel himself was an
- >unabashed Platonist.
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- According to Goedel's own writings also. Of course, Goedel did not
- state any of the philosophical gibberish invoked in his name.
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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