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Saying it was all thrown in the trash feels a bit glib to me. It was a colossal and important endeavour – all Gödel proved was that it wouldn’t help solve the problem it was designed to solve. As an exemplar of the theoretical power one can form from a limited set of axiomatic constructions and the methodologies one would use it was phenomenal. In many ways I admire the philosophical hardball played by constructivists, and I would never count Russell amongst their number, but the work did preemptively field what would otherwise have been aseries of complaints that would’ve been a massive pain in the arse

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