The most famous story about citizenship tests points up their essential wrongness. In 1947, the great Austrian logician Kurt G?del went to a hearing in Trenton, New Jersey, to acquire American citizenship. His friends Albert Einstein and the economist Oskar Morgenstern came along. The story has long been shrouded in myth, but “the lost Morgenstern document, containing Morgenstern’s 1971 memories of the affair, surfaced some years ago. We now know what happened.
有个关于公民资格考试的最著名故事,让我们看出此类考试的根本缺陷。1947年,伟大的奥地利逻辑学家库尔特·哥德尔(Kurt G?del)前往美国新泽西州特伦顿(Trenton)参加听证会,以获得美国国籍。他的朋友阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦(Albert Einstein)和经济学家奥斯卡·摩根斯坦(Oskar Morgenstern)也陪他前往。这个故事长期被披上传奇外衣,但丢失的“摩根斯坦文档(记载着摩根斯坦1971年对那次考试的回忆)前些年又找到了。现在我们知道当时发生了什么。
G?del had taken the hearing seriously. “Since he is a very thorough man, recorded Morgenstern, “he started informing himself about the history of the settlement of North America by human beings. That led gradually to the study of the History of American Indians, their various tribes, etc.
哥德尔很重视那次听证会。“由于他是个特别较真的人,摩根斯坦回忆道,“他开始研究人类在北美定居的历史。这慢慢地又让他考察上了美洲印第安人的历史、他们的不同部落等问题。
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