In Reply to: Re: Re Gödel posted by robertopisa on January 5, 2007 at 14:49:52:
HowdyNo, it hasn't been extended in the way that most people think it has, and in particular in the way that one could read the part of your post I quoted.
It's just a pet peeve of mine that people (not necessarily you) misuse Gödel's work to imply that science has limits. It certainly does have limits, but Gödel's work and it's extensions are very specific and not nearly as general as people seem to believe.
Most people here probably don't think that I consider myself an objectivist, but I carefully pick my potential equipment based on my research and experience and then listen carefully with blind and sometimes double blind tests. On the other hand I know the limits of the scientific models I use to judge things and wish that more people here knew the difference between a model and reality and further that they would make room in their world views for possibility of mistaken assumptions on all sides.
-Ted
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- Re: Re Gödel - Ted Smith 15:02:52 01/05/07 (2)
- Re: Re Gödel - robertopisa 15:26:42 01/05/07 (1)
- There are worse things than nerds :) [nt] - Ted Smith 15:30:22 01/05/07 (0)