From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5218 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vaughan Pratt Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: pragmatic foundation Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:36:16 -0800 Message-ID: Reply-To: Vaughan Pratt NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257651094 23579 80.91.229.12 (8 Nov 2009 03:31:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 03:31:34 +0000 (UTC) To: Andre Joyal , categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Sun Nov 08 04:31:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N6yUw-00049I-UR for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:31:27 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1N6y3r-0005TB-34 for categories-list@mta.ca; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:03:27 -0400 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5218 Archived-At: > Any comments? > AJ Hi Andre. I read the Manin interview in the AMS Notices with much interest myself last week. With regard to your request for comments, I can only repeat von Neumann's remark after Goedel's lecture as cited recently in Logicomix: "It's all over." I couldn't agree more. Like a rat trap slamming shut on a rat that we no longer need fret about. That the rat's ghost continues to haunt so many is an interesting commentary on human nature. Cheers, Vaughan [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]