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Date:      Sun, 01 Sep 2002 05:40:58 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why did evolution fail?
Message-ID:  <3D720ADA.8A385D7E@mindspring.com>
References:  <200208310608.g7V68h128080@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> <3D707754.1981EA36@mindspring.com> <20020831100938.GA262@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <3D71D8E6.71248CEB@mindspring.com> <20020901120813.GA1227@HAL9000.homeunix.com>

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David Schultz wrote:
> > > > 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 G=F6del'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 G=F6del.  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?

A moderately good reference:

	http://www.myrkul.org/recent/godel.htm

-- Terry

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