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Re: My investigations into Godels Incompleteness Theorem

Subject: Re: My investigations into Godels Incompleteness Theorem
From: Daryl McCullough
Date: 3 Oct 2006 15:48:26 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.logic
John Jones says...

>> If every sentence had a truly unique representation as a string, a
>> string would be a sentence.
>
>That's the original formulation. Godel is claiming, and everyone else,
>that a sentence has a unique string and that the string represents or
>corresponds to the sentence.

Do you understand that the correspondence between character strings
and sentences is at the heart of writing and reading? Written language
depends on there being such a correspondence.

--
Daryl McCullough
Ithaca, NY


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