Strategic use of the unsayable: Paradox as argument in gödel's theorem

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 80-93

  Cyphert, Dale ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistemology; G del's Theorem (or G del); Mathematics; Paradox; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347172118     PISSN: 00335630     EISSN: 14795779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00335639809384205     Document Type: Article

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