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  3. From: chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers)
  4. Subject: Re: Godel and the US constitution
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  10. Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:47:43 GMT
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  13. In article <1992Sep1.175844.16825@nas.nasa.gov> asimov@wk223.nas.nasa.gov (Daniel A. Asimov) writes:
  14.  
  15. >Out of curiosity, does anyone know how Godel envisioned a
  16. >consitutional dictatorship possibly arising in the U.S. ???
  17.  
  18. I believe that it had something to do with the amendment clause of
  19. the US constitution (Article V), perhaps in conjunction with the
  20. 10th amendment, which can be viewed as an implicit amendment of the
  21. amendment clause itself.  For more details, see Peter Suber's _The
  22. Paradox of Self-Amendment_ (Peter Lang Publishing, 1990).
  23.  
  24. -- 
  25. Dave Chalmers                            (dave@cogsci.indiana.edu)      
  26. Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University.
  27. "It is not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable."
  28.