Re: Gödel's Philosophy

2015-09-14 Thread John Mikes
I do not intend to get involved in a discussion with Gődel about his phikosophy, I appreciate his talent and knowldge, just a remark on the #1 of his list: "Nature is reasonable" In my *agnostic *views I would not go for that: we have a mental image about 'Nature' based on the little we THINK we k

Re: Gödel's Philosophy

2015-09-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Sep 2015, at 19:29, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 Bruno Marchal wrote: ​> ​Gödel was a logician. he constructed a model of the theory GR, just to show a counter-example to some proposition by Einstein.​ ​ ​Godel showed that if the universe were different from the way it

Re: Gödel's Philosophy

2015-09-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Sep 2015, at 23:10, Brent Meeker wrote: On 9/13/2015 9:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Sep 2015, at 23:48, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Sep 2015, at 04:08, Jason Resch wrote: So aliens or beings on other worlds, or in o