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Gödel sentence

Gödel sentence noun: an arithmetic statement that can be metatheoretically shown to not be provable or refutable in a formal system.

Noun

Gödel sentence (plural Gödel sentences)

  1. An arithmetic statement that can be metatheoretically shown to not be provable or refutable in a formal system.

Forms of Gödel sentence

pluralGödel sentences

Questions about Gödel sentence

What does Gödel sentence mean?
Gödel sentence means an arithmetic statement that can be metatheoretically shown to not be provable or refutable in a formal system.
What part of speech is Gödel sentence?
Gödel sentence is a noun.
What is the plural of Gödel sentence?
The plural of Gödel sentence is Gödel sentences.

Words near Gödel sentence in the dictionary

  1. Gödel
  2. Gödel number
  3. Gödel numbering
  4. Gödel numberings
  5. Gödel numbers
  6. Gödel sentence
  7. Gödel sentences
  8. Gödel's incompleteness theorem
  9. Gödel's incompleteness theorems
  10. Gödel's theorem
  11. Gödelian

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