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| Apr 6, 2015 at 16:37 | comment | added | gnasher729 | @JonEricson: The article that you quote contains one deragotary comment about Gödel, but no actual justification, no actual argument against him. Reading the surrounding sentences, I'd say Mr. Morningstar didn't have a clue what Gödel was about. | |
| Jan 20, 2013 at 10:39 | comment | added | danielm | Rubbish. Truth and wisdom are inseparable, questions and truth are inseparable. How could you even ask a meaningful question without beginning from some truth? What meaning does "wisdom" have without reference to some truth? Pseudo-philosophical claims like this (which ultimately degenerate into nihilism, which is the negation of philosophy) remind me of the postmodernist performative contradiction "there is no truth". You're free to believe it, but then you're no longer doing philosophy. And I repeat: consensus is meaningless. | |
| Jun 8, 2011 at 19:09 | comment | added | Jon Ericson | My favorite critic of Gödel is: '"Deconstruction" is based on a specialization of the principle, in which a work is interpreted as a statement about itself, using a literary version of the same cheap trick that Kurt Gödel used to try to frighten mathematicians back in the thirties.' From: <fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html>. I think I'll ask a question about that. | |
| Jun 8, 2011 at 1:24 | comment | added | jimjim | @Bob : LOL, so what if there is no one ultimate truth, maybe even truth itself is not meant to be what to be aiming for but a step in reaching metatruth. | |
| Jun 7, 2011 at 22:52 | history | edited | Joseph Spiros | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2011 at 22:48 | comment | added | zzzbbx | actually Goedel is a heck of a nightmare for those philosopher who thought they could reach the truth :) | |
| Jun 7, 2011 at 22:33 | history | edited | Joseph Spiros | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2011 at 22:26 | history | answered | Joseph Spiros | CC BY-SA 3.0 |