Re: Russell's abandonment of Leibniz's platonism after his conversion to the cult of materialism

2013-11-30 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I have a different history: Really the modern rejection of Idealism comes from the defeat of the latter incarnation of the ldealists: The Hegelianists, both Nazis and Comunists. The dialectical materialists Marxists were idealists against idealism, but idealists at last. That defeat happened dra

Re: Russell's abandonment of Leibniz's platonism after his conversion to the cult of materialism

2013-11-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 Nov 2013, at 13:32, Roger Clough wrote: Russell's abandonment of Leibniz's platonism after his conversion to the cult of materialism. Neither Bertrand Russell, nor Wittgenstein, understood Gödel's incompleteness theorem. Three related definitions of consciousness not possible i