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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Universe is a big place ,,,
Message-ID: <1992May21.153839.15713@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 21 May 92 15:38:39 GMT
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In article <9412@scott.ed.ac.uk> dlh@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Dominik Lukes) writes:

>                         Say! Why do I have to understand the mathematical
>part of the Goedel's incompleteness theorem to be able to use it for
>speculations about human cognitive ability.

 If you ignore the mathematical parts, there isn't a whole lot left :-( .

 However, Goedel's incompleteness theorem has NOTHING to say about human
cognitive ability.  It is merely a red herring which some people like to
drag up from time to time.

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  Northern Illinois Univ.
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