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Minor correction: Gödel's incompleteness theorem dates to 1931, not 1944. That said, I agree that the later Russell's more popular writing has been given short
by Chinjut 7y ago
Minor correction: Gödel's incompleteness theorem dates to 1931, not 1944.
That said, I agree that the later Russell's more popular writing has been given short shrift, and stands the test of time in many ways better than the earlier Russell's logicism.
- weinzierl 7y agoThat is true, Gödel's incompleteness theorem dates to 1931. In 1944 Gödel published his first philosophical paper, entitled "On Russell's Mathematical Logic". The mistake was probably made because the author Julian Baggini is a philosopher and so he is mostly aware of Gödel's philosophical works and not so much of his mathematical accomplishments.