reason vs. rationalization
juan
juan.g71 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 18:21:36 PST 2016
On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 07:12:20 -0500
John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:
> >
> >> The barrier between the two gets
> >> a bit fuzzy when Goedel's work
> >
> >
> > Pseudo intellectual charlatan trying to look cool by invoking
> > a 'well known' pseudo intellectual charlatan
>
>
> Wait - how is Goedel a "pseudo intellectual charlatan"?
> Because he believed in God?
I didn'r know he was some sort of christian (but thankfully not
a catholic eh, those are the bad christians - ask rayzer).
What bothers me about the philosophy of mathematics is the
attempt at finding some ultimate 'foundation' for the whole
thing, though I realize that Goedel was rather on the opposite
side of the so called logical positivists...
> His personal religious beliefs, as misguided as they may have been,
> don't discount his body of work.
True. Well at least for the more technical stuff.
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