Here's a Friday offtopic thread that isn't about kittens. :)
In your mind, who are the top scientists and/or mathematicians that you think understood, or at least had the best glimpse of the inner workings of the universe with most clarity?
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If I could put it into plain English as succinctly as possible, I'd say...
"To be generally useful, any language has to be flexible and recursive, and given such recursive flexibility, you can always construct within it an irresolvable paradox."
Is that a limitation of Logic? Or of any language we use to process logic? And is there a substantive distinction between those two things?
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As far as I understand it, it is a limitation of logic, not just of the language we use to process logic. And there is a distinction between these things, the language and the raw logic, if not a substantive difference. Russell's set paradox really starts my appreciation of the limitations of Logic, then along comes Ludwig...
Have you read Gödel's formalisation of Anselm's Ontological argument?
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(*Edit* After posting, I just realized I mis-read your topic, and was trying to think of a Scientist that had MADE MY glimpse of the inner workings of the universe better. But immagonna leave it anyways. )
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