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Topic: Godel's Incompleteness Theorems.
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Frederick Williams

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Re: Godel's Incompleteness Theorems.
Posted: Mar 9, 2012 1:23 PM
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Nam Nguyen wrote:

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> In other words, what would you or Chris Menzel define as "helpful"
> in this FOL-proving context?


Me: axioms and rules that are recursive as a minimum. Consistency,
which might be no better than, 'well, it hasn't let us down yet.'
Completeness and decidability if possible. I don't know about Chris
Menzel.

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