Gödel ..
He showed that a formal arithmetical
could not be demonstrated to be consistent from within itself. His
fifteen page article proved that some mathematics could not be proved
– that whatever axioms were accepted in mathematics there would
always be some truths that could not be validated. Then there is
Neurath's Boat. Nuerath was an antifoundationalist: he believed
that knowledge has no secure substructure. By way of illustrations he
used a nautical simile: “We are like sailors who have to rebuild
their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismantle it
in dry dock and construct it from the best components. Pg 163
I just wanted to remember this, because even though Gödel is impenetrable to me, this make sense to me.
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That helps. Now I have enough to go on for dinner party conversation.
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