Sewing-Machine comments on Edward Nelson claims proof of inconsistency in Peano Arithmetic - Less Wrong

13 Post author: JoshuaZ 27 September 2011 12:46PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 September 2011 03:03:07AM 1 point [-]

I think that Nelson denies that there is a completed infinity of predicates that you can plug into the schema.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 28 September 2011 03:57:44AM 5 points [-]

Well, you'd certainly only need finitely many to prove inconsistency.