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...that is not what the incompleteness theorem says.
Don't read the Wikipedia article on Gdel's incompleteness theorem and stop there.
And doesn't Gdel's incompleteness theorem make it clear that any such attempt must necessarily be flawed?
As it turns out, Godel had just sent a paper for publication on November 17th with the proof of the second incompleteness theorem.
I still think I'm missing something with breaking the record players, but based on my understanding it's a metaphor for incompleteness.
Gdel's incompleteness theorems came as something of an unwelcome surprise to those who, at the time, were hoping to put David Hilbert's program into practice.
My understanding of Gdel's incompleteness theorems is they show you can't reduce arithmetic to a consistent & complete logic.
[1]Von Neumann was in attendance and he wrote a letter to Godel on November 20th announcing his discovery of the second incompleteness theorem.
Or that its vim bindings are TOO natural and thus call undue attention to the inevitable incompleteness of its vim "implementation"
What we know, and have known since Godel's incompleteness proof [9] [11], is that the human ability to recognise truth transcends our ability to capture it formally.
This shouldn't remind you of anything related to the incompleteness theorem, because it's completely unrelated.
Taken to it's logical end his argument is that any field that has logical foundations should value human judgement over rigor and proof because of incompleteness.
I've just spent about an hour trying to explain how the comparision between Godel's incompleteness theorem and the ideas of Kant is flawed, but I couldn't come up with anything, because they have nothing to do with each other.
Interestingly, Godel gave a presentation somewhere within 5 - 7th September at Koningsberg presenting the first incompleteness theorem.
But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!It also surprises me that as someone who was a "devoted Christian for 25 years" who would at least have some Biblical knowledge, Ryan doesn't at least acknowledge the inherent spiritual incompleteness of placing his hope in worldly and material things - number six on his list being the exception.
I suppose Ramanujan doesn't seem important to the layperson, because his major contributions were both very advanced and difficult to explain -- compare Gdel's second incompleteness theorem, that no axiomatic system representing Robinson arithmetic can prove its own consistency: that one is much simpler than a result dealing with mock theta functions -- and they were also in pure mathematics rather than applied mathematics, and the main application of Ramanujan's work has been in some areas of quantum mechanics and string theory, which are themselves a bit beyond a layperson.
Incompleteness definitions
the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect; "the study was criticized for incompleteness of data but it stimulated further research"; "the rawness of his diary made it unpublishable"
See also: rawness