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What do y'all think of what Jaynes says in the Comments about Gödel's Theorem and Venn Diagrams?
His remarks on GT I found thoroughly confusing. The section on Venn diagrams doesn't seem to be entirely about diagrams as a method of illustration, but it's hard to tell exactly what it's about.
I don't feel a desperate need to deeply understand those bits, but it might make the summary of the chapter more useful if it adressed those questions.
I gave the Chapter to my friend who'd studied Gödel's Theorems for a term for his Masters, and he said the bit on Gödel was highly dubious, though he didn't go into detail. But they don't seem essential at all; I suspect Jaynes was engaging in a misconceived defence of Bayesianism's compatibility with Gödel's results against a misconceived attack.