From: CDJ 
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 08:30:23 -0500
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Jim Balter wrote:

> The Lucas view of Godel is trivially wrong, since it ignores the fact that
> Godel incompleteness only applies to *consistent* systems.  For this and other
> reasons (e.g., finiteness), Godel has no relevance to systems in the real
> world.

Is it just me, or is this rather like saying that since the classical
logician's "and" only applies to truth-functional systems, (and natural
language is demonstrably not truth-functional) therefore the classical
logician's "and" "has no relevance to systems in the real world" ?

A bit to quick, I would think.

Which is by no means to suggest that I agree with anything Lucas has to
say in that debate.

CDJ