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sp332
on Nov 21, 2013
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Building an invalid string in Python 2.x
I don't want to be condescending, but that isn't what the theorem says. (I'm not even sure it's true.) Incompleteness means there is a true statement, that cannot be
proved
true inside the system.
gohrt
on Nov 21, 2013
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And the contrapositive is that any sufficiently complex
complete
system is inconsistent.
sp332
on Nov 21, 2013
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Oh man, brokentone was right this whole time. Sorry brokentone!
brokentone
on Nov 22, 2013
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I'm only able to flirt with the edges of understanding this deep philosophy/math, so I can see correlations, but not defend them
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