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I've just spent about an hour trying to explain how the comparision between Godel's incompleteness theorem and the ideas of Kant is flawed, but I couldn't come up with anything, because they have nothing to do with each other. It's like trying to explain how the number 2 is different from a rhinoceros; there's no explanation that would satisfy anyone who already believes that the number 2 and a rhino are comparable.


That's close to Jacques Lacan's famous argument that there is a philosophical equivalence between the square root of -1 and an erect penis.




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