Re: [Marxism] Re: [PEN-L] More Godel

[Rod Holt <rholt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Friends one & all:
Any body who says "... Gödel kicked the whole [formalist program] over,"
and then goes on to Hofsteader make me stop reading.
I have a question: Why don't people read GÖDEL in stead of reading about
him? Why don't Marxists take a little time off and learn a little
mathematics, or at least enough to know the difference between "True"
and "derivable," between logic and metalogic??
Does anybody here know what a Gödel number is? If not, then avoid
propounding on Gödel, the dialectic, etc. ad nausium.
      --rod
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Les Schaffer wrote:

> Les Schaffer wrote:
>
> > i grabbed a copy of Goldstein's book this morning in the bookstore
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> for marxmailers, this refers to a thread on PEN-L that began with a
> posting by Jim Devine of a review of Rebecca Goldstein's new book just
> out on Godel and incompleteness:
>
>  http://slate.msn.com/id/2114561/
>
> i like this review a lot.
>
> les schaffer
>
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