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Re: [Phys-L] nature +- observations +- models

On 08/27/2016 08:36 PM, LaMontagne, Bob wrote:
Gödel's argument seems to be the philosophical equivalent to "turtles
all the way down".

Except for the part about being a philosophical argument.

If you find a philosophical argument to be surprising or unpleasant,
you are free to reject it. In contrast, Gödel's proof is an actual
mathematical proof. That's a lot harder to reject.

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If nature does not answer first what we want,
it is better to take what answer we get.
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900