Gödel's theorem

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Logic
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Stanford encyclopedia of Philosophy

First incompleteness theorem Any consistent formal system F within which a certain amount of elementary arithmetic can be carried out is incomplete; i.e., there are statements of the language of F which can neither be proved nor disproved in F.

Panu Raatikainen

This theorem was followed by several closely related theorems, such as Turing’s Halting problem

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