https://archive.ph/rA9Fx

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/opinion/trump-criminal-cases.html#commentsContainer

  • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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    1 month ago

    A logical system (e.g. standard mathematics) cannot prove its own axioms

    It can, and trivially so. Because every statement implies itself, we can just use modus ponens on each axiom A and (A => A) and we get A (if you even need an inference rule).
    What the theorem says is that a relevant logical system (not just any logical system) cannot prove that it is not self-contradictory.