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There's a translation of Gödel's paper linked via his wikipedia entries https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.research.ibm.com/people/h/hirzel/papers/c

• kybernetikos 13y ago
  I found your semicolon quite confusing there - it seemed to suggest that there was some relationship between being a theist and dying of starvation.
  • Radim 13y ago
    On the contrary. I imagine 6ren went to extra lengths to use a semicolon instead of a simple comma, as semicolons are used to emphasize independent clauses.
    • kybernetikos 13y ago
      Independent clauses can stand by themselves grammatically, that doesn't mean that their meanings are independent. e.g. > I hit him as hard as I could; he laughed at me. Those are 'independent clauses', but the semicolon emphasizes the connection between them.
      • 6ren 13y ago
        Radim is right. I actually tried a couple of other forms ("and" and ","), but they seemed worse. Challenge: can you demonstrate a better way? I think the problem is not syntax but semantics: two unusual facts beg connection. BTW: getting back on topic, his starvation seems due to a lack of faith... if some connection is expected, perhaps the best solution is to supply one, perhaps the poignant He believed in God, yet died from lack of faith.