[Corpora-List] PS:minimal changes in a paragraph (based on a corpus it appeared) ... (2nd attempt (after first one was deleted))

maxwell maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu
Tue Aug 9 20:07:51 UTC 2011


On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:01:36 +0100, Adam Funk <a.funk at dcs.shef.ac.uk>
wrote:
> [09/08/11 17:11] Angus Grieve-Smith wrote:
> 
>>     Then it's not a language, it's a model of a language.  I'm sure
it's
>> a very nice model, and useful for all sorts of purposes.  But Gödel
>> showed that in general models can never completely capture reality,
> 
> Hmm.  Some days I'm pretty sure that the real world is incomplete or
> inconsistent (or maybe both).  ;-)

Gödel's result has been known to account for both missing socks and
inconsistent statements by politicians.

   Mike Maxwell

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