ABSTRACT

First published in 2005. This study seeks to identify the specific mistakes that critics were alluding to in their passing asides on Wittgenstein's failure to grasp the mechanics of Godel's second incompleteness theorem. It also includes an understanding of his attack on meta-mathematics and Hilbert's Programme.

chapter |45 pages

The Nature of Proof

chapter |41 pages

Surveyability

chapter |59 pages

The Perils of Prose

chapter |39 pages

Consistency

chapter |44 pages

The Recovery of Certainty

chapter |39 pages

Freedom and Necessity