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>From: oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Subject: Re: Godel's Incompleteness Theorm
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e343mh@tamuts.tamu.edu (Michael Hand) writes:
   [regarding Shanker article in "Godel's theorem in Focus"]

   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.

This paper is the tail end of Shanker's response to various criticisms
of Wittgenstein's investigations in the philosophy of Mathematics [and
his remarks on Goedel's theorem], which as you probably know, resulted
in his 1987 book "Wittgenstein and the Turning-Poing in the Philosophy
of Mathematics". In the case of the Godel book, other papers provide a
base for Shanker's paper, as he states: "The ultimate aim of this book
has been to outline the basis of the consensus which has hitherto
obtained in order than to question it". It is possible that this paper
too will be famous, perhaps for the amount of sharp dismissals it will
get from die-hard platonists, if nothing else. ;-)

oz
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