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Comment by jleader

The author keeps talking about going through all possible proofs built from the axioms, as if that's a thing that obviously could be done. However, if your system is complicated enough to allow arbitrarily large combinations of axioms in your proofs, then I don't understand how you can expect enumeration of all proofs to be a finite process. Any statement that says "enumerate all possible proofs" followed by "and then do X" is meaningless, because you will never reach the "do X" step!
parent jleader 10 years ago

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