Playacting, from a different point of view
Playacting, from a different point of view

Summary/Abstract: From a semiotic point of view, the implications of Kurt Gödel’s proof can in a roundabout way be construed as suggesting freedom and limitations within everyday living, from concrete experience and pragmatic everyday coming and going to invariably incomplete knowing and the formal affairs of science, logic, and mathematics. Brief discussion of the relevance of these implications to certain aspects of Wittgenstein’s thought leaves us with a note of vagueness, ambiguity, and indefinite closure, especially given Wittgenstein’s criticism of Gödel’s theorems. But after all, this is to be expected, since the very ideas of incompleteness, inconsistency, contradictory complementary coalescence, and the undesirability of closure, have been proposed throughout this essay, as the final two chapters will bear out further.

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