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Quote: formal systems or formalisms are the same as Turing machines

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Topic:
mathematics as a formal system
Topic:
Turing machine
Group:
formalism
Topic:
limitations of formalism
Topic:
Godel's incompleteness theorem

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Note added 28 August 1963. In consequence of … [Turing 1937, p. 249] a precise and unquestionably adequate definition of the general notion … is now possible. That is, it can be … theory there exist undecidable arithmetic propositions and that … [footnote]: In my opinion the term "formal system" or "formalism" should …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: can not prove the consistency of any consistent formal system that contains a certain amount of number theory

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Topic: mathematics as a formal system (30 items)
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