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> The philosophical content of Godel's theorems is already found in the Liar paradox, "This statement is false." Sort of. Common reactions to the English versi
by rwallace 8y ago
> The philosophical content of Godel's theorems is already found in the Liar paradox, "This statement is false."
Sort of. Common reactions to the English version of the liar paradox are along the lines of 'that's meaningless so it doesn't imply anything' or 'so natural language is inconsistent, what do you expect?' Most of the work Gödel did was to find a way to encode meta-logic into formal language in such a way that he could then state the liar paradox in a format so ironclad that it could no longer be dismissed.
- danharaj 8y agoSure, that's the technical content of Godel :) If people chose not to take the Liar paradox seriously, I think they would gnash their teeth just as vigorously at the incompleteness theorem, and there is an expansive graveyard of attempts to circumvent it.