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This is only true if you reject the pink elephant argument as straw man in the first place. As long as you consider it a figure of speech (a charitable interpr
by strogonoff 2y ago
This is only true if you reject the pink elephant argument as straw man in the first place.
As long as you consider it a figure of speech (a charitable interpretation indeed), then existence of pink elephants (or ghosts, or what have you) is exactly the implication of the theory in context of scientific method.
- exe34 2y agoGödel's theorem deals with the axioms of mathematics. the scientific method deals with the physical universe. a small part of mathematics is useful in describing the universe, but most of it isn't.
- strogonoff 2y agoThe theorem is about formal systems in general. You may want to take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method#Science_of_complex_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method#Science_of_c..., though I recommend to read, for example, GEB to inderstand the implications of the theorem.