Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!pasteur!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: The Ignorant assumption Message-ID: <2381@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 14 Sep 88 18:50:15 GMT References: <1411@garth.UUCP> Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 14 From article <1411@garth.UUCP>, by smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan): " ... " Talking about ignorant assumptions, some people were presented axiom-free " logics as assumption-free method of understanding life, the universe, and " everything. No one said that. " ... We all know (I hope) formal systems are either " incomplete or inconsistent. I don't know that. Can you show this for predicate logic? Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu