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What are the philosophical implications of Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem?

Joseph Weissman · 2011
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Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem states Any effectively generated theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consistent and complete. In particular, for any consistent, effectively generated formal theory that proves certain basic arithmetic truths, there is an arithmetical statement that is true, but not provable in the theory (Kleene 1967, p. 250). What are the philosophical implications of this theorem? In particular, are there possibly more general analogues of this theorem -- necessarily "unprovable truths" within other kinds of formal systems?
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