Q&A: Gödel’s Theorem
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Gödel’s Theorem
Question
I saw that in your book and elsewhere you argue that the incompleteness theorems have philosophical implications, even though you define philosophical inquiry as focused on the synthetic a priori, whereas the incompleteness theorems themselves were proven and therefore are seemingly analytic. What am I missing here?
Answer
That itself is precisely their significance. They show, using analytic tools (or perhaps only a priori ones, since this is in the meta-system), the limitations of analyticity.