From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 00:38:59 MDT
The story, about Goedel citizenship, is also told
by Solomon Feferman in his biographical essay,
'Gödel's Life and Work' in Solomon Feferman et al.
(eds.), Kurt Gödel: Collected Works, Vol. 1:
Publications 1929-1936, Oxford University Press,
1986, p. 12, and retold by Ed Regis in his
'Who Got Einstein's Office?', Addison-Wesley, 1987,
pp. 57-58. Feferman traces the story to Oskar
Morgenstern's reminiscences as told in Heinz Zemanek,
'Oskar Morgenstern (1902-1977) - Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)'
Elektronische Rechenanlagen, 20 (1978) 209-11, p. 210.
Anyway the story is very amusing and, about the so called
'logica vaga' (vague logic), which applies to legal arguments,
look at: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/psa/sec16.htm
which also tells that story.
s.
'Law, unlike science, is concerned not only
with getting the right result but also
with stability, to which it will frequently
sacrifice substantive justice'
-Richard A. Posner, 'Problems of Jurisprudence', page 51.
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