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- From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (brett mcinnes)
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA - GOEDEL's THEOREMS - att: Dr.PRATT, Mc CULLOUGH
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 03:55:16 GMT
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- gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.J. McCaughan) writes:
- : > : I don't know any way of proving Godel's Theorem that doesn't require quite
- : > : a bit of technical muchking around. (Or else a lot of non-rigorous handwaving,
- : > : of course; but one can prove anything given sufficient willingness to wave
- : > : one's hands.)
- : > Please prove this.
- :
- : Well, like, it's sort of obvious, isn't it? After all, all you have to do is
- : wave your hands abou a bit and say things are obvious, and it's pretty clear
- : that most proofs are made up of lots of obvious steps and all the cleverness
- : is in the details, so all you have to do is sort of wave your hands on all
- : the tricky bits and everyone will believe you. See?
- :
- No. You didn't say that one could give a handwaving proof that one can
- prove anything given sufficient willingness to wave one's hands. You said
- "proof".
- Lucky nobody reads abian any more.
-