[FOM] Did Goedel "read philosophy"?

Martin Davis martin at eipye.com
Wed Mar 7 01:19:36 EST 2007


Surprisingly, Dean Buckner wrote:

 > As for Godel, did he read any philosophy?

As I thought subscribers to this list knew perfectly well, Goedel 
studied Kant in his youth, and in his later years studied Leibniz and 
then Husserl in his usual ultra-intensive manner.

Martin



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