Friday, October 1, 2021

Arguing that there will never be a final theory

 I have argued that all knowledge is of an approximate character and always will be.* Further evidence for this is the large set of impossibility theorems: 

Godel's theorems, Tarski's undefinability theorem, Lob's theorem, no free lunch theorems, Campbell's law, Rice's theorem, Arrow's impossibility theorem, Turing undecidability, Chaitin incompleteness, etc.

* See, for example, R. Jones, APS General Meeting, 10 March 2008, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. vol. 53, no. 3, and March 2009, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 54, no. 3, and my blogs of 25 Feb. 2012 and 1 Aug. 2021.

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