In defence of what God only knows
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'Understanding the Present' by Bryan Appleyard is about science's impact on our culture and its influence on morals and religious faith. The book, which describes the history of science and philosophy, opposes the ideas of Bertrand Russell. Appleyard summarizes logic, mathematics, science and philosophy but with insufficient study. He investigates the way science has eroded faith in God without any replacement, advancing Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument which tries to demonstrate that language with a sole user is inconsistent.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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Of Kurt Godel, his theorem and his tragedy
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Kurt Godel, logician, wrote his Incompleteness Theorem in his article 'On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems' published in Jan 1931 and it has become a landmark like Einstein's Theory of Relativity, despite its difficulty. Godel became a US citizen in 1948 after leaving Austria and worked at Princeton, New Jersey. He received his doctorate for his proof of the completeness of predicate logic and discovered the incompleteness theorem trying to prove the completeness of mathematics.
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Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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Hegel, don't bother me
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During the 50s and 60s the study of the history of philosophy was dropped due to the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein and others who believed that they were creating a revolution of new ideas. Michael Dummet's book, Frege: Philosophy, Mathematics published in Sum 1992 has revived the history of philosophy. Frege (1848-1925) established the logicist philosophy of mathematics that logic and mathematics are the same thing. Dummet's book has resulted in the acceptance that Frege is the founder of analytical philosophy.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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