Kenny comments on Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 July 2008 10:16AM

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Comment author: gwern 22 October 2009 10:02:58PM 5 points [-]

We keep going back to the Greeks because the paradoxes of the Eleatics (such as Zeno) and the Skeptics have never been satisfactorily addressed; they apply as well to the modern formal systems you laud as to the old syllogisms. Thinking in that vein may sharpen & formalize the paradoxes in such forms as Godel's theorems, but they won't dissolve them; we need different approaches to resolving the many Skeptical arguments about, say, circularity, like this metacircular approach.

Comment author: Kenny 08 April 2013 01:54:50PM 0 points [-]

Right! The Axiom of Choice is just one example of something like a 'sharpened' paradox, or really something 'sharp' that implies other paradoxical conclusions.