Why we will need lawyers anyway

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 8 18:00:43 PDT 2002



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> Godel assures us that no system of laws can be perfect, so lawyers will
>always be necessary. Wake up.
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That's not what Goedel showed, and his theorem has no relevance to law or political or legal philosophy or practice. What he showed was that arithmetic is incomplete, i.e., that in any formal system powerful enough to express arithmetic, there is at least one true proposition not provable within that system. jks

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