West Midland Baptist (Trust) Assn v Birmingham: Difference between revisions

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No, as it turned out.  
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{{Capsule West Midland Baptist Trust}}
{{Capsule West Midland Baptist Trust}}
===Goedel’s undecidability applied to the [[common law]]===
===[[Goedel]]’s [[undecidability]] applied to the [[common law]]===
This question — should a “newly decided” [[Golden thread|thread]] of [[common law]] apply to human affairs pre-dating its development which were specifically constructed in contemplation of common law principles which, the new authority has adjudged to be wrong? — articulates the same paradox by which [[Kurt Gödel]] buggered up David Hilbert’s aspiration to describe a complete and consistent set of all mathematic axioms.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_program David Hilbert’s program] </ref>
This question — should a “newly decided” [[Golden thread|thread]] of [[common law]] apply to human affairs pre-dating its development which were specifically constructed in contemplation of common law principles which, the new authority has adjudged to be wrong? — articulates the same paradox by which [[Kurt Gödel]] buggered up David Hilbert’s aspiration to describe a complete and consistent set of all mathematic axioms.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_program David Hilbert’s program] </ref>