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Date:      Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:49:47 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        Clive Lin <clive@CirX.ORG>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT modules
Message-ID:  <20010302154947.C41267@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <200103021706.f22H6Ad58131@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:06:10AM -0700
References:  <20010301234712.A47820@mollari.cthul.hu> <200103011801.f21I1VW48363@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzpd7c147wi.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010302033532.A69557@cartier.cirx.org> <20010301234712.A47820@mollari.cthul.hu> <200103021706.f22H6Ad58131@harmony.village.org>

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On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:06:10AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <20010301234712.A47820@mollari.cthul.hu> Kris Kennaway writes:
> : I
> : believe this question was resolved by Kurt Godel with the answer being
> : "it depends" (on the axioms of your brand of mathematics you choose).
>=20
> Didn't he prove that the best answer to many mathematical problems is
> "maybe."  Eg, there were some questions that an axiomatic system
> couldn't answer.  Who shaves the barber, being the most famous.

Yep. i.e. all formulations of mathematics are necessarily incomplete,
in that they allow formulation of questions which have no provable or
disprovable answer within the logical framework of that system.

Kris

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