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Reliant1087@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Incompleteness doesn’t come as a huge surprise when your learn math in an axiomatic way rather than computationally. For me the treacherous part is actually knowing whether something is unprovable because of incompleteness or because no one has found a proof yet.

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