site list webpage?
Kai Henningsen
^#*&$@ennui.org (remorse code) wrote on 13.12.99 in <rone.833rml$62p$1...@ennui.org>:
> In article <7UmRF...@khms.westfalen.de>,
> Kai Henningsen <kaih=7UmRF...@khms.westfalen.de> wrote:
> >jeffe...@opus.ies-energy.com (Jeff Fisher) wrote on 13.12.99 in
> >> <slrn85913v.e6...@opus.ies-energy.com>: If a `religion' is
> >> defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then
> >> Godel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only
> >> religion that can prove itself to be one. -- John Barrow
> >If "religion" is defined to be something that includes writings from
> >"John", then the above is religion.
>
> It ain't, so it ain't.
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Which is also true for the first quote, by some weird coincidence.
</look>
Besides, the followup ought to go to net.math.flame instead, except we
don't seem to have that.
Kai
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