On 1/13/2015 11:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:29 PM, John Clark <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:04 PM, LizR <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> O'Brien knew that who controls language controls thought. So peace is war. Atheism is Christianity. And "God" is whatever you want it to mean. > Bruno has a specific definition of God, He says he does, but when you probe a little deeper you find that he does not. In fact he has specifically said and I quote " This is useful to realize that the question "is god a person or a thing" is an open problem.". So when Bruno talks about "God" he quite literately and by his own admission doesn't know what he's talking about.So I take it number theorists have no idea what they're talking about either, because the Goldbach conjecture is still an open problem in their field.
Number theorists have a precise definition of the Goldbach conjecture and they have some axioms and rules of inference. So their uncertainty is mainly whether one leads to the other. However, it might turn out that they don't know what they're talking about; it might turn out that the Goldbach conjecture is undecidable and that it can be added as an axiom or it's negation can be added as an axiom.
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