Skye wrote:
... there's no possible way to tell the difference
between a reality which is reasonable and logical
and self contained/consistent constructed as
a necessity within an infinite scope of variety,
and a world that exists because it is reasonable
and self-consistent and follows the rules of
formal reasoning.
Something else mr. Berry (and sir Russell,
and prof. Chaitin) cooked up.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/chaitin/unm2.html
and also
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/chaitin/vienna.html
But "ex contradictione quodlibet" (ancient romans used
to say) is also the essential principle of *paraconsistency*
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-paraconsistent/
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