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The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us

The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us

Yanofsky, Noson S.

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General ReferenceSports GeneralHistory & Philosophy of Science

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ISBN10: 026252984X
ISBN13: 9780262529846
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Nov 4 2016
Pages: 418
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
This exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our rationality, and ourselves.

A must-read for anyone studying information science. --Publishers Weekly, starred review

Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits of Reason, Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot be predicted, described, or known, and what will never be understood. He discusses the limitations of computers, physics, logic, and our own intuitions about the world--including our ideas about space, time, and motion, and the complex relationship between the knower and the known.

Yanofsky describes simple tasks that would take computers trillions of centuries to complete and other problems that computers can never solve:

- Perfectly formed English sentences that make no sense

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