In his posthumously published "Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics" Ludwig Wittgenstein devotes a small section on the First Incompleteness Theorem by Kurt Gödel. This remarks have been...Show moreIn his posthumously published "Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics" Ludwig Wittgenstein devotes a small section on the First Incompleteness Theorem by Kurt Gödel. This remarks have been harshly criticized by early commentators, who have accused Wittgenstein of lacking understanding of the topic. In this thesis Wittgenstein's remarks are reevaluated and compared with other remarks on the topic, which are scattered throughout his published works and his Nachlass. It turns out that Wittgenstein wasn't actually commenting on the mathematical aspects of the Theorem, but that his critique is about the conceptual and metaphysical aspects of Gödel's work.Show less
