Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 05:08:13 -0700 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <20020901120813.GA1227@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <3D71D8E6.71248CEB@mindspring.com> References: <200208310608.g7V68h128080@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> <3D707754.1981EA36@mindspring.com> <20020831100938.GA262@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <3D71D8E6.71248CEB@mindspring.com>
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Thus spake Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>: > David Schultz wrote: > > Thus spake Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>: > > > If it's not provable, then it's not true. All things which are > > > true are, at least eventually, provable. > > > > ``This statement cannot be proved.'' You should read Gödel's > > Incompleteness Theorem. ;-) (And yes, I took great pains to > > get the umlaut correct this time.) [...] > We're not talking about correctness, here, we're talking about > truth. 8-). So was Gödel. I'm not sure what you're trying to say---but can you prove it? If I discussed the correctness of such a proof, wouldn't that automatically make it wrong? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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