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incompleteness is a key notion.
its good to keep in mind.
i'm not sure that really keeping it in mind does anything good for claims to certainty..quite the contrary. if mathematics as a formal language is incomplete, and it is only within a formal language that there is even any possibility of claims that approach certainty, then what does it do to other types of claims?
incompleteness is constitutive.
nothing you can do to make it go away.
any scientist who knows anything about philosophy knows this.
so i'm not entirely sure i understand who the asimov quote was directed at, ustwo, and i dont know how you understand it (in the sense that i dont know which aspects of it you emphasize and which you do not, simply because you posted it without comment), but it *is* interesting.
so thanks.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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