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To: The Philosopher who wrote (9783)	3/26/2001 8:33:52 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Godel didn't say that there were no truths, but that some truths weren't possible to answer from ONLY within the system. The example I was given was comparing certain sizes of infinities can't be determined. The example was the question is there an infinity between the smallest known infinity (the set of integer numbers, known as aleph zero) and the infinity expressed as all real numbers, called the continuum. A mathematician named Cohen showed that this was in the category of unanswerable questions in mathematics. But there are mathematical proofs that don't have this problem. I can prove that there is an integer between 2 and 4. That is NOT an undecidable question. Questions like what happened BEFORE the BB are of the unanswerable type because they can only be answered referencing something outside of the universe in which we exist. It isn't our universe anymore so its relevance to and answerability in our world is not decidable within the context of our existence. We can pose the question, but can't answer it definitively. Therefore, I remain an agnostic. There will always be doubt on this topic as long as I'm bounded by this universe (in my corporeal form, that is).

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