I'm not aware that he was a social critic, but according to Rebecca Goldstein,
he was a first class metaphysical control freak, leaving nothing to ambiguity
or contingency. I don't know whether Godel would say anything about law, but
surely it hardly holds up to the standards of formal mathematics, and no one
would be follish enough to think it does.
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Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] Does Gödel Matter?
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> CB: I think Hegel mentions math and jurisprudence as prime areas of the
> operation of formal logic.
>
> VFR: True enough, but I've a strong feeling that there's more to the
lawlessness of laws and constitutions than formal logic.
>
^^^^^^
CB: I'm curious to hear your discussion of the more there is to it.
I was just thinking that _Goedel_ was likely to find logical problems with
the consistency or completeness of jurisprudential laws and constitutions.
Or was he a social critic that I don't know about ?
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