Re: Skolem's Paradox and why is math the way it is?

From: Eray Ozkural exa (examachine_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: 21 Nov 2004 17:58:05 -0800

troubled6man@yahoo.com (J.E.) wrote in message news:<39d6e584.0411210634.421019a@posting.google.com>...
> I like Hintikka because while his works are always riddled with errors
> I can figure out what he "meant" and "correct it myself" a good
> percentage of the time, and I *agree* that it's SAD that that makes
> him BETTER than most other people I read who either talk in obvious
> circles or never go anywhere or assume that I already know facts from
> other books (unreferenced) that I can't find anywhere. I think
> Hintikka is intelligent, I don't know if he has bad editors for his
> books, or if his english is so bad that that's the best his editors
> can do, but even that doesn't excuse all his errors because sometimes
> they are in the formulas and so there is no excuse at all, either he's
> sloppy himself or some copy editors are really really bad, and my bet
> would be on Hintikka being sloppy, but that doesn't make him
> unintelligent.

Let me just say that he isn't the right kind of person to learn Godel
from. I've read books of great mathematicians and philosophers, and I
can tell the difference. Rigor is very important in philosophy, as
well as in mathematics.

Regards, 

--
Eray Ozkural
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