On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:31:39 -0700 (PDT) Chris Doss
<lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> writes:
> A little late, but...
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> This idea was destroyed by Goedel, or platonism was destroyed by
> Goedel? Wasn't Goedel a platonist himself?
Yes he was. He was also a metaphysical idealist and a theist, who presented his own version of the ontological argument, using modal logic. It is curious fact that he was ever a member of the Vienna Circle, when he held views diametrically opposed to those held by the rest of the Circle, but he shared their interest in mathematical logic and its philosophical implications
Jim Farmelant
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> --- On Sun, 7/26/09, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Here is the problem with the deep platonism of this
> > idea. Crudely put
> > > it was destroyed by Goedel's dual theorems on
> > consistancy and
> > > completeness.
> >
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