Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Albert (albertwagner_at_cox.net)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:00:00 -0600

robert j. kolker wrote:
>
>
> Albert wrote:
>
>>
>> Oh, Lord. Don't tell me that you are an admirer of Russell. He was
>> not as good a mathematician as he told everyone he was. He knew
>> nothing about poetry nor theology, yet presumed to pontificate about
>> both.
>
>
> Russel had his limitations, but he and Whitehead made some progress in
> the application of logic to mathematics. It was all for nought however,
> as Goedel showed.

Yes. Wittgenstein also contributed to Russell's loss of
credibility even in logic. 

-- 
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the 
range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally 
impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
     -- George Orwell as Syme in "1984"

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