Russell and White's Principia Mathematica had all sorts of flaws, he says. Then Brouwer came along and said actually mathematics reduces to intuition. So now we've got four theories about what mathematics reduces to logic, to intuition, to formalismwhat a set theory - mathematicians can't agree among themselves on it. Even while the physicists plug along hopefully even though they don't know what mathematics is still think we can find out something about reality. This is if anybody doubts this look into the voices of time by J.T. Tisdall.
Guest speaker: Robert Anton Wilson
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Date this lecture was recorded: February 1982
[NOTE: All quotations are by Robert Anton Wilson.]
"The belief in certitude, I suspect, is a primate habit."
"One thing I want to make absolutely clear is that almost all pessimism results from watching what the government is doing. . . . because the government is the last place that important change is registered. And so if you're looking at the government you're looking at the past."
"Certitude only belongs to those people who own just one encyclopedia."
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