----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 6:00 PM Subject: RE: Why we will need lawyers anyway
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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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Also see Peter Albin's "Barriers and Bounds to Rationality" [with Duncan Foley's wonderful intro] Princeton Univ. Press, as well as J Barkeley Rosser Jr.'s 2nd edition of From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities.
Ian