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To: betty boop
Well good grief, Doc -- how could the problem of "correct specification" come up in the first place, absent the a priori existence of a "specifying" human mind?

That's true in that mathematics is entirely a product of the human mind; however, Russell's paradox shows that the mind is rich enough to create falsehoods.

I'm not pointing to trees; I pointing out that we're not even a forest.

112 posted on 06/26/2005 8:13:28 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic

Frege was taken aback, but his invention proved very useful after all even if internally conflicted. Russell got paradoxicated in his turn and died unhappy and frustrated.


113 posted on 06/26/2005 8:16:23 PM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
I'm not pointing to trees; I['m] pointing out that we're not even a forest.

Notwithtanding, I still see the forest, Doc. And you're in it and so am I and all our friends and strangers. Does that make me "crazy???"

117 posted on 06/26/2005 8:29:36 PM PDT by betty boop (Nature loves to hide. -- Heraclitus)
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