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And words are defined in words. Also a deep sounding but ultimately meaningless statement.

• foldr 3y ago
  Surely a meaningful and true statement that most Popperians would accept. Popper’s demarcation criterion, correctly understood, may not ultimately be undermined by the fact that it is not itself a scientific theory that can be corroborated according to its own lights, but it’s perfectly meaningful to point out this feature of it.
  • namaria 3y ago
    Gödel and Turing already showed that logical systems need to be bootstrapped by axioms they cannot encompass. This is trivial, not insightful.
    • foldr 3y ago
      That's not exactly what the incompleteness theorem entails. I pointed out that the statement is not 'meaningless'. You now argue that it's trivial. That entails that it at least means something, so I don't think we disagree in a relevant way.