Decius comments on Second-Order Logic: The Controversy - LessWrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 January 2013 07:51PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 January 2013 05:42:41AM 3 points [-]

Actually, the halting problem has been proven impossible, for if third order logic can be used to determine if/when a turing machine halts, a turing machine could run that on itself, but would take necessarily more than N steps to determine that it halts (where N is the number of steps it halts in), which contradicts. Third-order logic may be able to do the inconceivable, but not the noncomputable.