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posted by Jack Butler on November 09, 1999 at 08:31:43:
in reply to: ENS AB ALIO posted by Juan Geuer on November 09, 1999 at 08:12:08:
Goedel's Contention Ever since I saw the notes on the blackboard that you had set up during your presentation at last year's Subtle Technology conference at InterAccess, notes that you did not get to discuss, I suspected that you turn to analytic philosophy to find an anchor for your practices in art and in science. I was so sorry your presentation did not get so far as to explain your intentions in presenting us with Kant's analytical terms for his "Critique of Pure Reason". And now, today, you start your response to our website about the art and science of (embryological) modelling with a reference to Goedel's theorem and its influence over much contemporary thought. Your (and Goedel's) conclusion that mathematics is not a self-referential system (dispite what would seem to be evidence to the contrary from the entire tradition of analytic mathematical logic from Frege to Russell), begs, I believe, a summary statement of Goedel's contention. What was it that Goedel discovered that so turned the course of contemporary mathematics? I think, Juan, that if anyone can make this idea accessible to our web audience it will be you. With much appreciation for joining our conversation, Jack
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