What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?

baruchel 14 points 1 comment May 18, 2026
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marojejian

Interesting points in here. e.g. that Godel didn't think this scrapped Hilbert's project totally: >Gödel believed that it was possible to redefine what we mean by a formal mathematical framework, or allow for alternative frameworks. He often discussed an infinite sequence of acceptable logical systems, each more powerful than the last. Every well-formulated mathematical question might be answerable within one of them.

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