Saturday, August 02, 2008

Because our conclusions and inferences have a meagre foundation and are fallible and brittle

[Kurt Gödel's more famous first theorem says that if a formal system (of a certain kind) is consistent, a specific sentence of the system cannot be proved in it. Mind Versus Gödel]

[But the being and action of the Infinite must not be therefore regarded as if it were a magic void of all reason; there is, on the contrary, a greater reason in all the operations of the Infinite, but it is not a mental or intellectual, it is a spiritual and supramental reason: there is a logic in it, because there are relations and connections infallibly seen and executed; what is magic to our finite reason is the logic of the Infinite. It is a greater reason, a greater logic because it is more vast, subtle, complex in its operations: it comprehends all the data which our observation fails to seize, it deduces from them results which neither our deduction nor induction can anticipate, because our conclusions and inferences have a meagre foundation and are fallible and brittle.
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It is not difficult to sense the resonance between the Logic of the Infinite thesis of Sri Aurobindo and Gödel's Incompleteness theorem. [TNM]

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