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SilasXyesterday at 6:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

He was ahead of his time, definitely, and binary logic is one critical step in getting there, but we're a long way from having a formal language to represent all claims that would ever arise in human argumentation to the point that it's simply a matter of calculation to resolve them.


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DoctorOetkertoday at 12:28 AM

Check out metamath.org I can't fathom any valid argument that couldn't be formalized to mathematical statements. There would still be disagreements on axioms and physical postulates, especially where there are conflicts of interest.

adrianNtoday at 2:43 AM

The whole project kind of died with Gödel.