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EIGHT YEARS AND COUNTING What Have We Learned So Far?
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Friday, February 24, 2006

No, not THOSE "Time Bandits"

What were Einstein and Gödel talking about?


Although Gödel was still little known in the world at large, he had a godlike status among the cognoscenti. “I once found the philosopher Richard Rorty standing in a bit of a daze in Davidson’s food market,” Goldstein writes. “He told me in hushed tones that he’d just seen Gödel in the frozen food aisle.”

1 Comments:

Blogger FancyPants said...

I watched the Terry Gilliam movie
"Time Bandits" last night and wanted to post something about it.
When I did a key word search I came across this article and thought it was so good that I had to post a link.

2:20 PM  

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