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

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 11 October 2012 02:40:10PM 1 point [-]

Generally speaking, the model of Peano arithmetic will get smaller as the model of set theory gets larger.

And the point is not to prefer smaller or larger models; the point is to see if there is a unique definition of the natural numbers.