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Naturalizing Godel's incompleteness theorems

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John Jones

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Jul 3, 2008, 6:01:32 PM7/3/08
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Tired of waiting for a real-world description of Godel's ideas? If
you're like me, you will be getting more than a little peeved by
tripping the other-worldly round of concept-empty technicalese,,
theories, consistencies and the like.

So here's the first of what I hope will be, or should be, a range of
naturalized expositions of the essential Godellian Incompleteness Project:

1) Godel tells us that:
"A bucket of water can hold ten pints, but it can't hold the waters of
Niagra Falls."

Peter_Smith

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Jul 3, 2008, 7:03:36 PM7/3/08
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On Jul 3, 11:01 pm, John Jones <jonescard...@aol.com> wrote:
> Tired of waiting for a real-world description of Godel's ideas?

Nope, because there are plenty of "real-world descriptions", in some
excellent books at various level of difficulty.

We are perhaps getting a bit tired, though, of waiting for you grow up
and stop your tedious trolling.

John Jones

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Jul 4, 2008, 5:33:00 AM7/4/08
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The example I gave was a good one, and inspired. Perhaps you could use
it as a demonstration to others:

A bucket system is able to hold all waters (ten pints) defined by the
bucket system. All waters are the same; however, there are some waters
(Niagra Falls) that cannot be held by the bucket system.

Well? It's good isn't it. Perhaps a few tweaks here and there, but well
worth looking at.

ju...@diegidio.name

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Jul 4, 2008, 4:37:13 PM7/4/08
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Let's give it a try: You are a Viagra Fall of stinky truisms and
trivial nonsense. Worth the trash bin.

-LV

ju...@diegidio.name

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Jul 4, 2008, 5:00:12 PM7/4/08
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Now, let's look at this peculiar bucket, the trash bin: it grows and
grows and nobody can tell if ever will it stop growing. A bucket
system big enough to even hold all the Viagra Falls ever. A bucket
system so big that even a leaf would fit in it, and even a thousend
trees. The bucket system bigger than any bucket system one can even
think out. The bucket system of all bucket systems ever, no compromise
included and/or excluded inside within and outside. The trash bin: a
wanderful example of the Goedel argument.

> MARK JJ FOR COLLECTION

JJ marked for collection.

> START GARBAGE COLLECTOR

Goedel at work... %

-LV


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> -LV

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