[FOM] Did Goedel "read philosophy"?

[Harry Deutsch]

The reference should be to "Howard Sobel" not "Kurt Sobel."
On Mar 7, 2007, at 10:13 AM, Jim Hardy wrote:

> Actually, Godel even did some philosophy.  There's a version of the
> Ontological argument due to Godel.  Here's the reference.
>
> Kurt Sobel, "Goedel's Ontological Proof" in {\it On Being and Saying},
> Judith Thomson ed., Cambridge MA, 1987.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Martin Davis
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 11:20 PM
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> Subject: [FOM] Did Goedel "read philosophy"?
>
> 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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