Comment by shwaj
3 hours ago
So your position boils down to “the only real knowledge is that which is provable”. Tautological. And probably not self-consistent, given Gödel.
3 hours ago
So your position boils down to “the only real knowledge is that which is provable”. Tautological. And probably not self-consistent, given Gödel.
As a response to my overall position, no, I think you threw out almost all of it.
On the question of a single word out of my entire position, that is a reasonably fair statement for mathematics (which is the topic under discussion). The fact that you think it's tautological supports both that you agree with its correctness and that this is a mostly irrelevant side conversation. And whatever you think the answer should be is not somehow not subject to the constraints of logic.