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Russell's Principia Mathematica (PM) is indeed better engineered than its predecessor by Frege because it has orders on propositions. Because of orders on pro
by ProfHewitt 6y ago
Russell's Principia Mathematica (PM) is indeed better
engineered than its predecessor by Frege because it has orders
on propositions. Because of orders on proportions, PM does
not allow the [Gödel 1931] proposition I'mUnprovable.
Furthermore, adding the proposition I'mUnprovable would
make PM inconsistent.
The Gödel number of a proposition in PM is itself
"incomplete" because it *doesn't* include the order of the
proposition. Allowing its Gödel number to represent a
proposition is indeed a kind of "code injection" attack,
which if allowed would make PM inconsistent.