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trashtester 10 months ago

Gödel mostly cared about mathematics. And he seems to have believed that human intuition could "know" propositions to be true, even if they could not be proven logically[1].

It appears that he was religious and probably believed in an immaterial and maybe even divine soul [2]. If so, that may explain why he believed that human intuition could be unburdend by the incompleteness theorem.

[1] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9154/1/Nesher_Godel_on_Trut...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_ontological_pro...