Series · 6 Jul 2026From Plato to Proust - Readings on the Spot- 54:55The sentence about Plato does not come from him; we owe him the incompleteness principle: no theory validates itself without a metalanguage.
Gödel
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Who is this?Kurt Friedrich Gödel ( GUR-dəl; German: ; April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978) was a logician, mathematician, cosmologist, and philosopher. Considered along with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant logicians in history, Gödel profoundly influenced scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century (at a time when Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and David Hilbert were using logic and set theory to investigate the foundations of mathematics), building on earlier work by Frege, Richard Dedekind, and Georg Cantor. […]
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Series · 6 Jul 2026From Plato to Proust - Readings on the Spot
Season 14 · 5 May 2026The foundations of the Platonic and Aristotelian distinction- 1:08:39Author of the incompleteness theorem, he held that all philosophy of mathematics was a footnote to a Platonic dialogue.
Season 9.2 · 17 Mar 20219 #17 The geopolitical metaphor • Planck • Descartes • Clouscard • Dominique Pagani- 1:09:36Judged that since Leibniz and Plato there had been little progress, even regression, in reflection on mathematics: true science is not scientist.
Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.3 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 52:55Choice between incoherence and incompleteness: better incompleteness, since incoherence ruins everything.