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>From: zeleny@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
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Subject: Re: Godel's Incompleteness Theorm
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In article <12713@tamsun.tamu.edu> 
e343mh@tamuts.tamu.edu (Michael Hand) writes:

>oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:

OY:
>>As an addition to the previously mentioned refs on Goedel, there is also a 
>>book by Stuart Shanker (ed) "Goedel's Theorem in Focus" that may be of some 
>>interest. These are the articles included in the book:
>>...
>>VIII.	Shanker: Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Significance of Goedel's Theorem

MH:
>Shanker's paper is the only paper that is not reprinted there from a 
>previous publication, I think.  It's huge - about 100 pages, as I recall.
>The volume seems peculiar: in the presence of rather famous papers on 
>Goedel's results, Shanker's paper makes its first appearance.  Think this 
>is because the author of the paper is a close friend of the volume's editor?

It is also predictably content-free, in a collection otherwise ranging from
ground-breaking to insightful, to informative.  Why anyone would think that
Wittgenstein's remarks on the significance of G\"odel's Theorem were of any
interest in the investigation of the latter, is altogether beyond me.

ObG\"odel: the first volume of the Collected Papers (containing perspicuous
introductions for each result of our hero) is far superior to any other
source of the First Incompleteness Theorem; on the Second Incompleteness
Theorem, see Smorynski's article in the Handbook of Mathematical Logic.  Do
not, under any circumstances, read Hofstadter et.al., without having seen
the real thing first.  More invaluable period material will be found in van
Hejenoort's monumental anthology, "From Frege to G\"odel".  Check out the
papers by Herbrand and Finsler.

>  ;->
>Michael


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