[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth - Douglas Hofstadter

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[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth

Douglas Hofstadter

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Douglas Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is a mathematician, cognitive scientist, and Pulitzer Prize winning author.

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Native Name: Douglas Richard Hofstadter

Alternative Names: Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Context thus changes categorization and can modify how we perceive even the most familiar of items.

Since, as is well know, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?

In short, Godel showed that provability is a weaker notion than truth, no matter what axiomatic system is involved.

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