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To: Pelham
There are no closed, self-defining systems

The real field is complete in the sense of Goedel.

“logical systems of arithmetic can never contain a valid proof of their own consistency.”

But you're not talking about peano arithmetic, are you? So why not simply leave Goedel out of this?

42 posted on 07/28/2016 7:42:22 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Nuke Saudi Arabia now)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

“So why not simply leave Goedel out of this?”

Because Goedel is ultimately about epistemology.

http://theor.jinr.ru/~kuzemsky/JakiGodel.pdf


43 posted on 07/28/2016 8:01:11 AM PDT by Pelham (Best.Election.Ever)
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