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The author of "What Gödel Discovered" has a good point that Gödel numbers are not a convenient representation of a proposition of Russell's Principia Mathemat
by ProfHewitt 6y ago
The author of "What Gödel Discovered" has a good point that
Gödel numbers are not a convenient representation of a
proposition of Russell's Principia Mathematica (PM). (Nor
are Gödel numbers adequate because they omit the order of a
proposition.)
Lisp expressions are an improvement. However, a Lisp
expression, as used in the article, is also not adequate
because it also omits the order of the proposition.
See the following for a high-level representation of
propositions of PM that includes the crucial orders on
proportions: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3459566 https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3459566