On Arguments and Arguants: Reason, Reasoning, and Reasoners

Kurt Gödel was a 20th Century genius who is universally considered to be one of the greatest logicians of all time, and is colloquially legendary as Albert Einstein’s “best friend.”

Kurt (1906–1978) and his wife Adele (1899–1981) are buried together in Princeton’s famous cemetery, about 20 yards from John von Neumann, the first person to recognize the significance of Gödel’s work.

As von Neumann described KG’s famous incompleteness theorems (1930/31): “Kurt Gödel’s achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental — indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and…