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Gödel gets Diagonalized

2019-08-19 · 1,031 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Gödel gets Diagonalized — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "I am prepared to concede without further argument that all the theoretical constructions, including geometry, which are
Gödel gets Diagonalized — pen and ink drawing

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"I am prepared to concede without further argument that all the theoretical constructions, including geometry, which are used in the various branches of physics are only imperfect instruments to enable the world of empirical fact to be reconstructed in our minds." Richard von Mise, First Lecture, "The Definition of Probability", p. 8.

"If ... the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be. Kant—in this respect almost alone among the philosophers—was much bothered by the common opinion that…

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