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Re: "Edited for the Modern Reader"

by mstemper@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Stemper) Apr 14, 2008 at 12:42 PM

In article <48027984.3010603@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Sea Wasp writes:
>Bill Snyder wrote:

>> Since I don't believe for a moment that it's possible in the first
>> place, of course not.  You're the one who was claiming that
>> anything that's true can be proved.
>
>	Of course, believing that it CAN'T be proven leads to some rather odd 
>effects. If you can't prove that something is true, how do you know 
>it's true in the first place?

Well, my gut reaction is to say, "if <X> has been neither proven nor
disproven, then the truth value of <X> is unknown." Or, in shorter
words, "you don't".

But, then I'm reminded of the meaning of the Go:del sentence, G:
"G can not be proven."

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