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I agree that Turing Machines feel more natural to programmers than first-order logic (although "natural" doesn't necessarily mean "rigorously proven"), but the
by Tainnor 3y ago
I agree that Turing Machines feel more natural to programmers than first-order logic (although "natural" doesn't necessarily mean "rigorously proven"), but there are no leaps of faith involved in Gödel's construction.
You can write down "P is provable" as a first-order sentence of arithmetic (which involves some number theoretic tricks), and you can also do the diagonalisation trick that gives you self-referentiality. That's really all you need.