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- From: hougen@focus.csl.uiuc.edu (Darrell Roy Hougen)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: >>godel theorem ...
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 21:28:49 GMT
- Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Summary: godel theorem
- Keywords: goedel
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- cole@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Sandra Stewart-Cole) writes:
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- % For those who have sought to make only a few assumptuions and prove
- % various truths that fully represent reality consistently from them, GT
- % undermines the attempt.
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- True.
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- % It shows that logical deduction is
- % insufficient to explain anything complex no matter how many starting
- % axioms you take.
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- Fine.
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- % For seekers of objective truth backed by logic, this
- % is a disturbing concept.
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- Perhaps, but it is the concept of truth and not the concept of
- objectivity that must be modified. It is still possible obtain
- objective knowledge by logical inference from observation.
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- Darrell R. Hougen
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