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Gödel's Loophole (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by inari@piefed.zip to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Actually this kind of thing happens more often than you might think with mathematicians

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That one's really incredible. A 17th century person discovers something and we find out he was right by the end of the 20th? Did I understand right?