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To: flickerful who wrote (142)8/17/1998 9:17:00 PM
From: marcos  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1542
 
Well, even Euclid needed axioms, which can't be proven, they just can't be disproven using his system of logic, which depends on axioms. Which is pretty circular, if you think about it.

Not sure what my point is there, hope we don't get graded on this .... gotta go ... cheers



To: flickerful who wrote (142)8/18/1998 12:10:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1542
 
"If you hold a statement to be true no matter what, that statement automatically means nothing."

So, is this statement true no matter what? Or does it eat itself if we do?...