Re: Goedel - interesting problem?

From: Acid Pooh (poohonlsd_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: 6 Jun 2004 17:38:01 -0700

"Tron Furu" <tronfuru@frisurf.no> wrote in message news:<6jrwc.6517$RL3.111025@news2.e.nsc.no>...
> "Acid Pooh" <poohonlsd@yahoo.com> skrev i melding
> news:d7ba1f79.0406051255.5ec24b5e@posting.google.com...
> > "Tron Furu" <tronfuru@frisurf.no> wrote in message
> news:<W9jvc.5191$eH3.91681@news4.e.nsc.no>...
> > > "|-|erc" <gotcha@beauty.com> skrev i melding
> > > news:Kdivc.2395$rz4.758@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > >
> > > Because logic, like Frege pointed out, is like a microscope: highly
> useful
> > > at short distances, but exactly therefore useless for any other purpose
> we
> > > utilise ordinary language for.
> >
> > Frege said this? Do you have a reference? (I'm not challenging you
> > or anything--this just seems interesting since it's so out of
> > character.)
> >
>
> It is in the foreword to the "Begriffsschrift"; in the old (german) version
> I have used, it is the page numbered XI.
> Unfortunatley I can't give any reference to any English version; the one I
> have, Geach/Black Oxford 1960 gives only the first chapter of the
> "Begriffsschrift", not the foreword.

Cool, thanks.

'cid 'ooh

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