If you can read this book cover-to-cover, you're an absolute hero. Sometimes I wonder if they inserted a big logical error in the middle just to troll people under the assumption nobody would bother to read it.
gumby•34m ago
You mean you don’t have a framed, signed, bug-bounty cheque from Alfred North Whitehead on your wall??
More seriously, there is indeed a huge logical error at the heart of the whole enterprise but it was not discovered until much later by Kurt Gödel.
voxadam•9m ago
>there is indeed a huge logical error at the heart of the whole enterprise but it was not discovered until much later by Kurt Gödel.
Which leads us to our next impenetrable book, Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.
kjellsbells•3m ago
I used to wonder how likely it was that the printers made some typesetting errors. Who among us could, say, type a tbousand pages of APL symbols without introducing a bug?
glimshe•41m ago
gumby•34m ago
More seriously, there is indeed a huge logical error at the heart of the whole enterprise but it was not discovered until much later by Kurt Gödel.
voxadam•9m ago
Which leads us to our next impenetrable book, Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.
kjellsbells•3m ago