RE: Good Gödel, Batman!

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

me:
> BTW, I posted the SLATE article simply because I think that
> some people use Gödel as saying "anything goes."

Ian writes: 
> Do you have any evidence of people using Godelian arguments in
> saying anything
> goes in science/philosophy? And no you can't claim it's what
> Feyerabend was
> saying.
 
Me:  
> No, I can't summarize my experience with a small number of people as
> "evidence."

Ian: 
> Did you see the movie "OutFoxed"? You know, the part where they pick
> apart the
> ubiquitous phrase used by Fox commentators "well some people
> say......"

I didn't see that movie. You're right that anecdotal evidence is inadequate and that a more scientific (logical, statistical, skeptical, etc.) approach is needed. However, even though _some_ people use Gödel inappropriately doesn't me that I think that everyone does so. 

Jim Devine, e-mail: jdevine@xxxxxxx
web: http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/