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The flaw was the belief that it was possible (though they were not sure that they two could pull it off). Gödel showed that it was not an impossibly difficult
by gumby 2mo ago
The flaw was the belief that it was possible (though they were not sure that they two could pull it off). Gödel showed that it was not an impossibly difficult task but an actually impossible task.
- steppi 2mo agoA failed hypothesis is not the same thing as a logical error. Would they have been more free of flaws if they believed it was impossible and thus didn't try? We'd all be the poorer for it
- jibal 2mo agoIt cannot be overstated how flawed your own statements here are. You shouldn't be talking about logical error regarding a work of logic when you don't even know enough logic to know what a logical error is. And there was no "flaw" in attempting to resolve foundational paradoxes in set theory, primarily to address Frege's error and deal with Russell's paradox, or in attempting to prove that all mathematics can be derived from pure logic. Seeking to demonstrate a hypothesis that is later shown to be erroneous is not "flawed", else the entire knowledge-seeking enterprise is "flawed". And switching from "logical error" to the very vague notion of a "flaw" is goalpost moving that looks a lot like bad faith. I won't comment further.