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But only because our 'faith' in the mathematics that we have conjured up
is more wide-spread--so much so that we presume we could use it to
communicate with other intelligent life. But...is mathematics TRUTH?
[Euclidean Geometry?]
rwt
On 8/28/2016 6:27 AM, John Denker wrote:
On 08/27/2016 08:36 PM, LaMontagne, Bob wrote:
Gödel's argument seems to be the philosophical equivalent to "turtlesExcept for the part about being a philosophical argument.
all the way down".
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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Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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