Maths - Gödel Proofs

Negation Complete

A formal system S is Negation Complete (AKA syntactically complete or deductively complete or maximally complete) if for each sentence (closed formula) φ of the language of the system either φ or ¬φ is a theorem of S.

Effectively Computable

 

Effectively Enumerable

Different Approach

Here is a video by Robert Harper where he gives an interesting take in this.

At about 37 min into this video he says: "what is true has unbounded quantifier complexity whereas any formalism is always relentlessly recursively innumerable" - Gödels theorem.

"there is a distinction between proof and truth"

(by formalism here I think he means formal logic?)

 


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