[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: NPR, Godel, Semantic Web
At 10:31 AM 5/7/01 -0400, Robert C. Lyons wrote: >For a simple explanation of Godel's Theorem, see > > http://www.nadn.navy.mil/Users/math/meh/godel.html. Thanks! >Here's a site that describes a couple of "common but fallacious >conclusions" that people make from the theorem: > > http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/notebooks/godels-theorem.html Since a lot of what the Semantic Web proposes to do is precisely "deduction from axioms", I suspect these claims don't fall into the "common but fallacious conclusions" area. If anyone knows where they do fall, I'd love to hear it. Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly & Associates XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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