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- From: gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.J. McCaughan)
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA - GOEDEL's THEOREMS - att: Dr.PRATT, Mc CULLOUGH
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:51:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.050005.23233@nuscc.nus.sg>, matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (brett mcinnes) writes:
- > gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.J. McCaughan) writes:
- > :
- > : I don't know any way of proving Godel's Theorem that doesn't require quite
- > : a bit of technical muchking around. (Or else a lot of non-rigorous handwaving,
- > : of course; but one can prove anything given sufficient willingness to wave
- > : one's hands.)
- > Please prove this.
-
- Well, like, it's sort of obvious, isn't it? After all, all you have to do is
- wave your hands abou a bit and say things are obvious, and it's pretty clear
- that most proofs are made up of lots of obvious steps and all the cleverness
- is in the details, so all you have to do is sort of wave your hands on all
- the tricky bits and everyone will believe you. See?
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- Gareth McCaughan Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics,
- gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University, England. [Research student]
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