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RUSSELL AND GÖDEL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 December 2016

ALASDAIR URQUHART
ALASDAIR URQUHART*
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SANDFORD FLEMING BUILDING 10 KING’S COLLEGE ROAD TORONTO, ON M5S 3G4, CANADA E-mail: [email protected]
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This paper surveys the interactions between Russell and Gödel, both personal and intellectual. After a description of Russell’s influence on Gödel, it concludes with a discussion of Russell’s reaction to the incompleteness theorems.

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01A6003-03Bertrand RussellKurtG&DotodelPrincipia Mathematicaincompleteness theorem
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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , December 2016 , pp. 504 - 520
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Copyright © The Association for Symbolic Logic 2016 

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