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There is no a priori reason why the aimed for results should be unprovable ala Gödel. However, it turns out it has been proven that it is. Tao says so in the p
by Certhas 2y ago
There is no a priori reason why the aimed for results should be unprovable ala Gödel.
However, it turns out it has been proven that it is. Tao says so in the post:
> I will remark that the general question of determining whether one set of equational axioms determines another is undecidable.
Even though the general problem is undecidable, individual instances are still potentially solvable.
- gigatexal 2y agoAwesome thanks for clarifying
- NooneAtAll3 2y agoI remark that it's the "several equations -> several equations" that's undecidable this project focuses only on "1 eq -> 1 eq", so it's even more of a gray area