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Subject: 
Re: Critical Thinking
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Date: 
Fri, 1 Dec 2000 23:56:04 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote:
Think about Goedel and whether the author's statements are part of the
system they describe or not.
They aren't.

you sure?  :)  all that i know about goedel comes from douglas
hofstadter's book 'goedel, escher, and bach: an eternal golden
braid', but the impression i got from that was that there isn't
a clear answer.   of course it's been a while.  ;)

--
Why are things as they are and not otherwise?
-Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)



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  Re: Critical Thinking
 
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeromy Irvine writes: <snip> Think about Goedel and whether the author's statements are part of the system they describe or not. They aren't. But since you won't do that thinking... When I put meaningful in quotes I was (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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