Penrose's New Argument |
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Authors: | Lindström Per |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Göteborg, 41298 Göteborg, Sweden |
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Abstract: | It has been argued, by Penrose and others, that Gödel's proof of his first incompleteness theorem shows that human mathematics cannot be captured by a formal system F: the Gödel sentence G(F) of F can be proved by a (human) mathematician but is not provable in F. To this argment it has been objected that the mathematician can prove G(F) only if (s)he can prove that F is consistent, which is unlikely if F is complicated. Penrose has invented a new argument intended to avoid this objection. In the paper I try to show that Penrose's new argument is inconclusive. |
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Keywords: | Gö del's proof formal system human mathematical reasoning |
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