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From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: Open Letter to Professor Penrose
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In article <4t1dsa$s3t@nuke.csu.net>,
ilias kastanas 08-14-90 <ikastan@sol.uucp> wrote:
>@>In article <jqbDurspC.61E@netcom.com>, Jim Balter <jqb@netcom.com> wrote:
>@>@From Goedel we get that, for any formal system, there is at least one question
>@>@that it cannot answer correctly.  Somehow or another, humans are supposed to

>	The problem with "cannot answer correctly" is that it _can_ be read
>   as "answers incorrectly".

I hardly see the relevance of the fact that one can misread something.
"cannot answer correctly" == not "can answer correctly".
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<J Q B>

