cousin_it comments on No one knows what Peano arithmetic doesn't know - Less Wrong

17 Post author: cousin_it 16 December 2011 09:36PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 17 December 2011 10:28:15PM *  2 points [-]

Thanks again for taking the time to parse all that!

ETA: Is this what you were referring to in:

Yeah, kind of. I didn't know the results but for some reason felt that subtheories of arithmetic shouldn't lead to intermediate degrees.

Comment author: Zetetic 17 December 2011 11:30:46PM 1 point [-]

No problem! It's an interesting topic with lots of surrounding results that are somewhat surprising (at least to me).