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Originally posted by CSflim
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.
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woops, my bad.
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Last edited by rsl12; 03-16-2004 at 06:37 PM..
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