From: Aatu Koskensilta on
George Greene <greeneg(a)email.unc.edu> writes:

> The question said, "since provability is expressible". Is provability
> in PA "expressible" in PA ??

Sure.

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From: Aatu Koskensilta on
Charlie-Boo <shymathguy(a)gmail.com> writes:

> So don't we have a proof that is (1) way simpler, and (2) way earlier,
> than Church and Turing?

No. What proof are you thinking of?

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From: Aatu Koskensilta on
Charlie-Boo <shymathguy(a)gmail.com> writes:

> What do you call someone who asks questions for which they know the
> response? Something like "fuckwit", I believe.

Depends on the situation. Teachers often ask questions they know the
answer to, and while some teachers may well deserve the epithet
"fuckwit" in general they aren't so called. In news a poster might ask a
question they know the answer to with the intention of getting their
interlocutor to reflect more carefully on some claim or point made, some
argument presented. Some posters asking such questions are fuckwits,
some not; some get called "fuckwits", some not.

> Posting limit reached. :(

A tragedy.

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"Wovon man nicht sprechan kann, dar�ber muss man schweigen"
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus