Exercise · ZW-GODELS-INCOMPLETENESS-001 · ★☆☆ Basic

Gödel's incompleteness refers to systems that are...

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  • D. Consistent and sufficiently expressive

Explanation

Gödel's incompleteness applies to systems that are consistent and sufficiently expressive for arithmetic. If either condition fails, the result does not hold.

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Review the concept: Gödel’s incompleteness

A consistent system \(\mathcal{S}\) that represents enough arithmetic is incomplete: there is a formula \(\varphi\) that it can neither prove nor refute.

\[\\exists\\varphi\\,(\\mathcal{S}\\nvdash\\varphi\\land\\mathcal{S}\\nvdash\\neg\\varphi)\]

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