Re: RE: Re: RE: Premises, Circularities etc was Re: His torical Materialism

[ravi <gadfly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brown, Martin - ARP (NCI) wrote:
> Re geometry.  I think Goedel's paradox tends to refute your statement.


are you talking about justin's statement that geometry does not involve
circularities and proceeds by axiomatic enumeration? if so, why do you
think gödel's theorem (i presume you are referring to the incompleteness
theorem?) refutes that statement? i fail to see why the fact that
arithmetic is not recursively axiomatizable is a demonstration of
circularity... please explain, especially since this position conflicts
with your (what i read as correct) response of pointing to the lack of
circularity claimed in jim devine's post.

	--ravi