![]() ![]() ![]() Such systems are made up of some finite number of statements called axioms, which are accepted as true and "self-evident," as well as some equally unobjectionable rules for deriving one statement from another, called rules of inference. In 1931 the Czech logician, then a young professor at the University of Vienna, published a scholarly paper summarizing his doctoral investigations into the properties of formal logical systems. It is easy to understand why one might come to think that Godel's result would have implications for science. That interpretation of Godel's fundamental contribution to logic seems to be a commonly held belief, but it is simply not so. He replied that such limits had been established by Kurt Godel. In the early 1990s I mentioned to a senior European scientist that I was interested in understanding the intrinsic limits to scientific knowledge. Barrow Oxford University Press, 1998 279 pages $25.00 IMPOSSIBILITY: THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE AND THE SCIENCE OF LIMITS by John D. ![]()
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