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>It's not what Godel was hoping for. Godel was hoping to add some support to that shaky Jenga piece at the bottom so that they could continue building their bea
by nemo 3y ago
>It's not what Godel was hoping for. Godel was hoping to add some support to that shaky Jenga piece at the bottom so that they could continue building their beautiful tower taller and taller, consisting of structures ever more elegant.
Gödel was a Lutheran Platonist who was personally morally opposed to Logicism and his contemporary mathematical program. He was an odd man, really, but he was in no respect a booster of, or a person working to promote Hilbert's program. He was tearing it down very deliberately.