Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!information-systems.east-anglia.ac.uk!jrk From: jrk@information-systems.east-anglia.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway CMP RA) Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: Minds, machines, and Godel Message-ID: <15303.9101181150@s4.sys.uea.ac.uk> Date: 18 Jan 91 11:50:22 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 11 In <1991Jan18.012527.20104@news.cs.indiana.edu> chalmers@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (David Q. Chalmers) writes: >OK, now we're homing in on something closer to the point. Judgments of the >truth of Godel sentences are parasitical on judgments of the consistency >of the given system. And judgments of consistency may be hard. We can judge >that Principia Mathematica is consistent fairly straightforwardly Eh? How? -- Richard Kennaway SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. Internet: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk uucp: ...mcsun!ukc!uea-sys!jrk