Re: Godel

["Gunnar Tomasson" <gunnar.tomasson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here is my take on Goedel, as conveyed to a correspondent yesterday:

I think Goedel punctured
the Russell-Whitehead idea that linear thinking is the way to go in coming
to grips with reality.

[...] I am persuaded that our reasoning faculty and associated linear
thinking
plays, as it were, second fiddle to our intuition.

Gunnar

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Davidson" <pdavidson@xxxxxxx>
To: <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 1:43 PM
Subject: Godel


> I thought that Godel showed the unprovability of consistency for some
> axiomatic systems and the formal undefinability of the notion of truth.
> This indicated that  it was impossible to present all scientific knowledge
> in the form of axiomatics.
>
> Paul
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