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Originally posted by rsl12
Bertrand Russell: determined that it's possible to find a contradiction in any logical system, and therefore there is no such thing as 'perfect' mathematics.
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You've got it the wrong way around here. Bertand Russell was convinced that not only was there a perfect mathermatical system, but it was his and Alfred North Whitehead's
Principia Mathematica that was such a system.
It was Kurt Godel who proved, in his famous incompleteness theorem, that
a)The Principia Mathematic was inherently flawed and more importantly
b)ANY mathematical system would also be similarly flawed (assuming it was "powerful" enough)
Regardless, Bertrand Russell is a very interesting philosopher, and had many powerful arguments against religion.