"I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief."

Stephen Cole Kleene, American Mathematician

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"I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief."

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"It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church."

Work

"I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton."

Post

"When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that."

First

"I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe."

Ideas

"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."

First

"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."

Books

"I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two."

Church

"And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished."

Church

"I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy."

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"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know."

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