Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems - Elements in Philosophy and Logic

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems - Elements in Philosophy and Logic

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This Element takes a deep dive into Gödel's 1931 paper giving the first presentation of the Incompleteness Theorems, opening up completely passages in it that might possibly puzzle the student, such as the mysterious footnote 48a. It considers the main ingredients of Gödel's proof: arithmetization, strong representability, and the Fixed Point Theorem in a layered fashion, returning to their various aspects: semantic, syntactic, computational, philosophical and mathematical, as the topic arises. It samples some of the most important proofs of the Incompleteness Theorems, e.g. due to Kuratowski, Smullyan and Robinson, as well as newer proofs, also of other independent statements, due to H. Friedman, Weiermann and Paris-Harrington. It examines the question whether the incompleteness of e.g. Peano Arithmetic gives immediately the undecidability of the Entscheidungsproblem, as Kripke has recently argued. It considers set-theoretical incompleteness, and finally considers some of the philosophical consequences considered in the literature.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781108986991
ISBN10 1108986994
Number Of Pages 90
Item Weight 150 g
Product Dimensions 151 x 229 x 5 mm
Publisher / Reseller Cambridge University Press
Format paperback
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