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Salutator comments on We won't be able to recognise the human Gödel sentence - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Salutator 05 October 2012 10:51:39PM 3 points [-]

The thing is that the proof for Gödel's theorem is constructive. We have an algorithm to construct Gödel sentences from Axioms. So basically the only way we can be unable to recognize our Gödel sentences is being unable to recognize our axioms.