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Sniffnoy comments on Gödel and Bayes: quick question - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: hairyfigment 14 April 2011 06:12AM

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 14 April 2011 09:56:40PM 1 point [-]

It's not about what you can prove, it's what you can state. The first-order theory of the reals doesn't even have the concepts to state such a thing. If your base theory is the reals, then sets of reals are a second-order notion.