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Re: Source Code for OS?
This what he claimed, yet, he erred in this claim.
Kurt's "Incompleteness Theorem" suffers
from the same error of reasoning as the Liar
Paradox...
Matthew Russotto wrote:
> In article <3A82C8CF.1DAD0317@qwest.net>, olcott <olcott@qwest.net> wrote:
> >The set of these paradoxes do not form really
> >difficult questions, they are merely ill-formed.
> >Godel's incompleteness theorem suffers from
> >this same ill formation...
>
> Goedel's incompleteness theorem is not ill-formed. Goedel showed that
> in any sufficiently complex logical system, it was possible to create
> well-formed statements whose truth value could not be determined. If
> you want to throw out all such statements, you end up with a system
> that isn't powerful enough to do arithmetic in.
> --
> Matthew T. Russotto russotto@pond.com
> "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
> of justice is no virtue."