Why we will need lawyers anyway

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Mon Apr 8 18:20:50 PDT 2002


On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Justin Schwartz wrote:


> >
> >
> > Godel assures us that no system of laws can be perfect, so lawyers will
> >always be necessary. Wake up.
> >
> 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
>

Yeah, what's this irritating tendency to bring up Godel in discussions of social and/or political activities? It's almost as bad as chaos theory (don't get me started on that one).

Miles



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