Re: Completeness & consistency, was: A sad threa

2008-01-08 Thread Reid Nichol
--- Eliah Kagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You insist on me giving examples even when I have already done so, > repeatedly. I have acquiesced to your request. Now I would ask that > you give specific examples of my unreasonable conclusions and specify > why they are unreasonable. You don't seem

Re: Completeness & consistency, was: A sad threa

2008-01-07 Thread Eliah Kagan
On Jan 7, 2008 7:47 PM, Reid Nichol wrote: > You haven't pointed to an instance of an inconsistency in Mathematics. > Which, I'll point out, was what I explicitly asked for. Let me speak in a more formal tone, so that perhaps I will be clearer. There are at least two useful mathematical systems t