Le 07-févr.-07, à 05:55, Brent Meeker a écrit (some time ago)
> > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> Sorry, I thought I was replying to what you said. It's possible of >> course to be right about one thing and wrong about another, and people >> do keep different beliefs differently compartmentalized in their head, >> like your brother-in-law. However, this is *inconsistent*, and >> inconsistent is even worse than wrong. >> >> Stathis Papaioannou > > I'm not sure I agree with that last. Being consistent means you're > either all right or all wrong. :-) I don't think so. By Godel II, [Peano Arithmetic + the axiom that Peano Arithmetic is inconsistent] is consistent. But is wrong (because PA *is* consistent), but not all wrong, because PA + PA is inconsistent does correctly prove that 1+1=2. You can be wrong, and consistent. It is due to the gap between truth and provability. Stathis is right, you (and machine lobian) can be right on something and wrong on another thing, still remaining consistent. Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
