From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 1 5:42: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 803B937B401 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 05:42:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net (goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14B8643E6A for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 05:42:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0004.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.4] helo=mindspring.com) by goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17lU3D-0007ZJ-00; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 05:41:59 -0700 Message-ID: <3D720ADA.8A385D7E@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 05:40:58 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Schultz Cc: Dave Hayes , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? References: <200208310608.g7V68h128080@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> <3D707754.1981EA36@mindspring.com> <20020831100938.GA262@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <3D71D8E6.71248CEB@mindspring.com> <20020901120813.GA1227@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message