Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Wittgenstein In Wartime Comments

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Criss-cross in every direction
ran a lion who could speak
persuading the sensitive German,
'not not-p and not-not-p.'
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Adi Cox 23 July 2011

I like this poem with its subtle suggestion of Godel's incompletness theorem: 'I am a liar' a statement we cannot prove would be a relevent example here. This is a limitation of logic, but the strength of logic is that we can prove many things and it is this rigid reasoning that finds truth. 'I am a liar' is grammatically correct but logically incorrect. Sorry for going on but your poem fired my imagination, thankyou for witing a poem on this subject.

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