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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 4 months ago (18 children)

the point isn't to prove that the triangle is a triangle it's to prove that the system of mathematics you made up actually works

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Until you prove that you can't prove that the system you made up works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Then it doesn't work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's very counter intuitive. As the other commenter suggested I was referring to Gödel and his incompleteness theorem.

Actually if the system you made up doesn't work it would be possible to prove that it does inside that system as you can prove anything inside a system that doesn't work.

That is why my comment is not entirely accurate it should actually be: Until you prove that if the system works you can't prove that the system works.

Can you spot the difference in the logic here?

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