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Re:Gödel, Grammar, Go – The Limits of Rules and Facts by mmalone on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @01:17AM (#14145612)
I'm curious... is it really true that an inconsistency would invalidate all proofs? Wouldn't this only affect non-constructive proofs (i.e., proofs that rely on the law of the excluded middle)? According to Wikipedia intuitionists also accept the principle of explosion... but it's not just an automatic result, is it? You'd need some proof or assumption that contradiction implies everything. Right?

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