FOM: Godel on Reality

Soren Moller Riis smriis at brics.dk
Tue May 9 11:08:51 EDT 2000


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Godel remark on mathematical reality
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In "Address at the Princeton University Bicentennial conference
on problems of mathematics (Dec 17-19, 1946), by Tarsky
printed in the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic Vol 6. Num 1 March 2000 
pp 1-44 Godel is cited for having said that in his opinion classical
mathematics has meaning (i.e. describes some reality) and that
failure to assume this (at least as a working hypothesis) must
psychologically work as a hindrance in research.

Søren Riis






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