--- On Tue, 8/26/08, archytas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes Georges and even agreed. I'd guess this - one brave
> RN officer
> dashing about in a sinking U-boat may well have had more to
> do with
> breaking Enigma than any fatuous 'logic' about any
> false proposition
> implying all others. That plus some decent Polish work
> before the
> war.
============
G:
Polish Notation of Boole Algebra indeed underlies all
computing and other "logical" electronics. Yet, it has
nothing to do with alleged logic of Russell's
bandwagon.
============
I've met people who could apply searing intellect
> to problems
> that had me like a dog chasing its tail. Some of them
> could even
> dress themselves - others seemed to use 'logic' to
> rationalise
> cheating on their wives. Cheating on partners does not
> have to be
> problematic, or even necessary. I'm wondering whether
> your
> unsurpassed summit was surpassed - perhaps by von Newman
> and his
> sidekick Morgenstern.
===============
G:
That sounds interesting, but I don't grasp it in detail.
Could you, pls. give a link or pointer?
Georges.
================
> On 26 Aug, 14:27, Georges Metanomski
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Whatever social science may prattle and whatever the
> > merits of technology, I simply wrote a proof that
> Goedel's
> > Theorem is the unsurpassed summit of idiocy ever
> committed
> > in pseudo-science. A point, that's all. Did you
> read it?
> > Georges.
> >
> > --- On Tue, 8/26/08, archytas
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > We might say "logic smodgik" in respect
> of a lot
> > > of academic work. In
> > > social science Godel was hailed as somehow
> allowing
> > > intution at the
> > > expense of hard work - strangely lots of brain
> dumps of
> > > twaddle
> > > lacking intuition followed. I quite like the
> idea of
> > > reliable
> > > software doing work that would otherwise consume
> lifetimes,
> > > much as I
> > > welcome technology in farming to save broken
> backs - yet
> > > there is a
> > > price to pay if this is just to doom us to fat
> idleness and
> > > idle
> > > criminality or the inanities of single Gaussian
> copula
> > > based super-
> > > computing to keep an idle rich or consume us in
> Dr.
> > > Strangelove's
> > > Game. We do not pay enough attention to what
> logic becomes
> > > once it is
> > > playing a part in practical matters, and when
> idiots render
> > > it
> > > unquestionable.
> >
> > > On 26 Aug, 09:17, Georges Metanomski
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > --- On Tue, 8/26/08, archytas
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > > > I'd take a different tack on Godel.
> ...
> >
> > > > ===============
> > > > Before taking it have a look at
> > > > " LIAR'S PARADOX"
> > >
> inhttp://findgeorges.com/ROOT/RELATIVISTIC_DIALECTIC/C_MODELING_AND_LOG...
> > > > which clearly shows that of all cortege
> following
> > > > Russell's fatuous "logic"
> Goedel was the
> > > most asinine,
> > > > not worth while losing a minute to tackle
> with.
> > > > Georges.
> >
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