Hi Stephen, I wouldn't be too hard on Russell, at least as far as logic goes. He had no way of knowing of Godel's proof. And Whitehead had joined him in the principia project. Certainly two of the brightest minds that ever lived.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-04, 12:51:59 Subject: Re: On the ontological status of elementary arithmetic On 03 Nov 2012, at 19:27, Stephen P. King wrote: > On 11/3/2012 8:38 AM, Roger Clough wrote: >> Hi Stephen P. King >> >> Bertrand Russell was a superb logician but he was not >> infallible with regard to metaphysics. He called Leibniz's >> metaphysics "an enchanted land" and confessed that >> he hadn't a clue to what the meaning of pragmatism is. >> >> > Hi Roger, > > Yeah, his star fell today, for me. Why. because he was wrong? But all serious people are wrong. To be wrong is a chance, and to be shown wrong is an even bigger chance. Russell was not annoyed by that, because his platonist intuition was preserved. he just learned that reason needed to learn modesty with respect to truth seeking, even on arithmetic and machine. 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 everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.