Consider this moving testimonial:
We entertain no doubts as to whether Julius Caesar is a natural number or not.
-- Michael Dummett, “The Philosophical Significance of Gödel’s Theorem” (1963); repr. in , Truth and other enigmas (1978), p. 193
How many Americans can say the same?
… Although … a disturbing possibility just now occurred to me.
Professor Dummett professes to entertain no doubts: which is good, for the digestion. But he does not reveal which side of the question he comes down on…
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