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Any given mathematical statement (eg, 11 is a prime number) must either be true or false, right? Wrong! Godel showed that however elaborate mathematics becomes, there will always exist some statements (not the above ones though) that can never be proved true or false.

Then why did he use it? What is it with the crappy math articles lately? Now we're going to have ignoramuses running around saying mathematicians can't prove 11 is prime and smirking at everything else they say as well.

8 posted on 02/24/2004 7:45:52 AM PST by LibWhacker
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Mathematically speaking, there is a discontinutity in logic, and anything can be emitted, or fall into a discontinutity. Anything goes at the discontinuity. That a discontinutity exists is suggestive that our logic is not correct. That is, something is or is not, is not necessarily true. Curiously, quantum physics postulates the same concept. A thing is not in a particular state until an observation is made.
79 posted on 02/25/2004 6:23:59 PM PST by GregoryFul
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