Wittgenstein Didn't Absolutely Agree with Gödel’s Theorems and Russell’s Paradox

(and he was right)

Alexander P. Bird
Cantor’s Paradise
5 min readJan 7, 2021

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In 1956 a few writings of Wittgenstein that he didn't publish in his lifetime were revealed to the public. These writings were gathered in the book Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics (1956). There, we can see that Wittgenstein had some discontentment with the way philosophers, logicians, and mathematicians were thinking about paradoxes, and he even registered a few polemic reasons to not accept Gödel’s incompleteness theorems.

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