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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (9780)3/26/2001 6:49:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
had a discussion with a PhD statistician friend of mine who called these
"undecidable statements". His argument is that many so-called unprovables in
philosophy are of the form of ill-posed or ambiguous.

But I thought that was the heart of Godel's argument -- that his statements were legitimate statements within mathematics, not ill-posed or ambiguous, and not self-referring (like the Barber of Seville). And then, of course, we have Zeno's paradoxes, of which my favorite is the arrow that can never reach its target. I have never heard a successful mathematical proof of why his proof is incorrect, and why the arrow CAN reach its target.I know it does, but mathematically it can't!
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