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Undecidable problem
Selasa, 2026-06-30 03:54:48

form of the First Incompleteness Theorem is an easy consequence of the undecidability of the halting problem. This weaker form differs from the standard statement...

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Undecidable
Senin, 2019-03-04 04:48:41

Look up undecidable or undecidability in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Undecidable may refer to: Undecidable problem in computer science and mathematical...

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List of undecidable problems
Selasa, 2026-08-11 18:34:26

represent the same object or not. For undecidability in axiomatic mathematics, see List of statements undecidable in ZFC. The halting problem (determining...

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Gödel's incompleteness theorems
Kamis, 2026-08-13 15:53:58

word undecidable, the term independent is sometimes used instead of undecidable for the "neither provable nor refutable" sense. Undecidability of a statement...

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Decidability (logic)
Rabu, 2026-07-01 03:54:17

undecidability of theories. If an essentially undecidable theory T is interpretable in a consistent theory S, then S is also essentially undecidable....

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Halting problem
Jumat, 2026-07-24 19:45:31

- a poetic proof of undecidability of the halting problem animated movie - an animation explaining the proof of the undecidability of the halting problem...

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Description number
Selasa, 2026-02-03 18:42:03

Description numbers play a key role in many undecidability proofs, such as the proof that the halting problem is undecidable. In the first place, the existence...

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Conjecture
Minggu, 2026-08-09 15:03:13

In mathematics, a conjecture is a proposition that is proffered on a tentative basis without proof. Some conjectures, such as the Riemann hypothesis or...

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Artificial intelligence
Jumat, 2026-08-14 08:29:43

solved. Inference in both Horn clause logic and first-order logic is undecidable, and therefore intractable. However, backward reasoning with Horn clauses...

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Algorithm
Selasa, 2026-08-11 23:29:36

JSTOR 2371045. Reprinted in The Undecidable, p. 89ff. The first expression of "Church's Thesis". See in particular page 100 (The Undecidable) where he defines the...

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Impossible object
Rabu, 2026-06-24 19:43:20

An impossible object (also known as an impossible figure or an undecidable figure) is a type of optical illusion that consists of a two-dimensional figure...

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Matrix mortality problem
Sabtu, 2025-09-13 01:20:33

Julien; Halava, Vesa; Harju, Tero; Nicolas, Francois (2014). "Tighter Undecidability Bounds for Matrix Mortality, Zero-in-the-Corner Problems, and More"...

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Higher-order logic
Rabu, 2026-08-05 03:46:48

Journal of Symbolic Logic 5(2):56–68 (1940) Huet, Gérard P. (1973). "The Undecidability of Unification in Third Order Logic". Information and Control. 22 (3):...

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List of statements independent of ZFC
Selasa, 2026-04-21 12:15:42

is consistent. A statement is independent of ZFC (sometimes phrased "undecidable in ZFC") if it can neither be proven nor disproven from the axioms of...

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Wang tile
Rabu, 2026-08-05 14:38:16

halt. The undecidability of the halting problem (the problem of testing whether a Turing machine eventually halts) then implies the undecidability of Wang's...

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Entscheidungsproblem
Senin, 2026-05-11 02:56:31

in all finite models. Trakhtenbrot's theorem shows that this is also undecidable. Some notations: S a t ( Φ ) {\displaystyle {\rm {{Sat}(\Phi )}}} means...

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Decision problem
Kamis, 2026-02-12 07:12:30

accordingly. Some of the most important problems in mathematics are undecidable, e.g. the halting problem. The field of computational complexity theory...

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Viable system model
Kamis, 2026-08-13 23:49:40

This defines a metalanguage stack of increasing capability to resolve undecidability in the autonomous lower levels. If someone near process level needs...

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Post correspondence problem
Jumat, 2026-06-26 12:34:58

problem and the Entscheidungsproblem it is often used in proofs of undecidability. Let A {\displaystyle A} be an alphabet with at least two symbols. The...

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Aperiodic tiling
Kamis, 2026-07-23 19:43:03

not decidable. This first such set, used by Berger in his proof of undecidability, required 20,426 Wang tiles. Berger later reduced his set to 104, and...

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Independence (mathematical logic)
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 15:15:00

prove from T that σ is false. Sometimes, σ is said (synonymously) to be undecidable from T. (This concept is unrelated to the idea of "decidability" as in...

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Semi-Thue system
Minggu, 2026-07-12 13:53:15

undecidable, but the various Turing machines figuring in the proof of the undecidability of the general halting problem all have as component a hypothetical...

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Computable set
Jumat, 2025-08-08 00:06:11

natural number in a finite number of steps. A set is noncomputable (or undecidable) if it is not computable. A subset S {\displaystyle S} of the natural...

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On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems
Rabu, 2026-07-29 00:28:34

paper on undecidability" (Davis 1952:39), as well as Gödel's own extensions of and commentary on the topic. This appears as On Undecidable Propositions...

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Ogden's lemma
Selasa, 2026-06-23 10:52:48

extended to show that deciding whether a CFG is inherently ambiguous is undecidable, by reduction to the Post correspondence problem. It can also show that...

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Proof of impossibility
Sabtu, 2026-06-20 19:50:55

theorem: undecidability in language theory (cf Hopcroft and Ullman p. 205ff and reference on p. 401 ibid: Greibach [1963] "The undecidability of the ambiguity...

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Peano axioms
Kamis, 2026-05-21 18:58:55

of Peano arithmetic or not. Hence, PA is an example of an undecidable theory. Undecidability arises already for the existential sentences of PA, due to...

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Metamathematics
Minggu, 2026-03-22 22:16:29

Metamathematics is the study of mathematics itself using mathematical methods. This study produces metatheories, which are mathematical theories about...

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Turing machine
Rabu, 2026-07-01 04:50:35

Turing, right from the start of his work, had as his goal a proof of the undecidability of the Entscheidungsproblem. He told me that the 'main idea' of the...

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Raphael M. Robinson
Kamis, 2025-11-27 18:05:18

like Peano arithmetic, is incomplete and undecidable in the sense of Gödel. Robinson's work on undecidability culminated in his coauthoring Tarski et al...

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Robinson arithmetic
Kamis, 2026-03-19 15:20:05

be used to show that Q is incomplete and undecidable. This indicates that the incompleteness and undecidability of PA cannot be blamed on the only aspect...

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Context-free grammar
Senin, 2026-08-03 10:10:42

that input. Given two CFGs, do they generate the same language? The undecidability of this problem is a direct consequence of the previous: it is impossible...

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Spectral gap (physics)
Minggu, 2025-10-05 05:57:59

List of undecidable problems Spectral gap, in mathematics Cubitt, Toby S.; Perez-Garcia, David; Wolf, Michael M. (2015-12-10). "Undecidability of the spectral...

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NP-hardness
Rabu, 2026-06-17 21:44:00

in NP. However, the opposite direction is not true: some problems are undecidable, and therefore even more difficult to solve than all problems in NP,...

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Decidability
Minggu, 2022-11-06 22:04:25

mathematical logic Decidable problem and Undecidable problem Gödel's incompleteness theorem, a theorem on the undecidability of languages consisting of "true...

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Mortality (computability theory)
Senin, 2025-03-24 10:28:51

the origin, is selected as a halting state). Hooper, P. (1966). "The undecidability of the Turing machine immortality problem". Journal of Symbolic Logic...

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Satisfiability
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 22:09:25

satisfiability is undecidable. More specifically, it is a co-RE-complete problem and therefore not semidecidable. This fact has to do with the undecidability of the...

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Quantum algorithm
Rabu, 2026-07-08 18:33:36

superposition or quantum entanglement. Problems that are undecidable using classical computers remain undecidable using quantum computers. What makes quantum algorithms...

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Rice's theorem
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 20:59:12

every program, nor false for every program. The theorem generalizes the undecidability of the halting problem. It has far-reaching implications on the feasibility...

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Sol Garfunkel
Kamis, 2025-07-03 03:27:25

Wisconsin-Madison Scientific career Fields Mathematics, Logic Thesis On the Undecidability of Certain Finite Theories  (1967) Doctoral advisor Howard Jerome Keisler...

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Unknowability
Jumat, 2025-10-24 22:15:24

equation and always determine whether it has a solution in integers. The undecidability of the halting problem and the Diophantine problem has a number of implications...

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Primitive recursive arithmetic
Senin, 2025-11-17 13:50:06

1093/oso/9780195080308.003.0010. Rose, H. E. (1961). "On the consistency and undecidability of recursive arithmetic". Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen...

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Robert Berger (mathematician)
Senin, 2025-11-03 14:32:18

the Lincoln Laboratory. Berger's work on tiling was published as "The Undecidability of the Domino Problem" in the Memoirs of the AMS in 1966. This paper...

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Verena Huber-Dyson
Kamis, 2026-04-30 04:54:55

did research on the interface between algebra and logic, focusing on undecidability in group theory. At the time of her death, she was emeritus faculty...

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Programming language
Jumat, 2026-08-14 15:18:54

Section 2.2: Pushdown Automata, pp.101–114. Jeffrey Kegler, "Perl and Undecidability Archived 17 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine", The Perl Review. Papers...

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Quantum computing
Rabu, 2026-08-12 13:52:10

power over classical computers. Thus, quantum computers cannot solve undecidable problems like the halting problem, and the existence of quantum computers...

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P versus NP problem
Rabu, 2026-08-12 02:11:40

greatest importance. Namely, it would obviously mean that in spite of the undecidability of the Entscheidungsproblem, the mental work of a mathematician concerning...

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Lists of problems
Rabu, 2026-08-12 13:53:13

problems in physics List of unsolved problems in mathematics List of undecidable problems List of NP-complete problems List of PSPACE-complete problems...

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Church–Turing–Deutsch principle
Jumat, 2026-06-12 19:51:11

of the principle was given by Stephen Wolfram in February 1985. In Undecidability and Intractability in Theoretical Physics, Wolfram wrote that "[U]niversal...

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Kurt Gödel
Rabu, 2026-08-12 09:39:20

Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme (called in English "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems"). In that...

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Simply typed lambda calculus
Kamis, 2026-08-13 21:03:47

ISBN 0-8186-2230-X. S2CID 40441974. Huet, Gérard P. (1 April 1973). "The undecidability of unification in third order logic". Information and Control. 22 (3):...

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Garden of Eden (cellular automaton)
Minggu, 2026-08-02 14:59:40

main result is that it is undecidable to test whether a cellular automaton is reversible, but he also shows the undecidability of testing whether a Garden...

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Timeline of mathematical logic
Rabu, 2026-08-12 23:40:25

problem is undecidable. 1955 - Evertt William Beth develops semantic tableaux. 1958 - William Boone independently proves the undecidability of the uniform...

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Whitehead problem
Kamis, 2025-12-25 00:04:01

the existence of undecidable statements had been known since Gödel's incompleteness theorem of 1931, previous examples of undecidable statements (such...

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General set theory
Selasa, 2026-08-11 19:27:06

about, assuming these are consistent. In fact, the undecidability of ST implies the undecidability of first-order logic with a single binary predicate...

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Scott–Curry theorem
Sabtu, 2025-04-12 09:54:15

proven by Haskell Curry. It was published in Curry's 1969 paper "The undecidability of λK-conversion". Hindley, J.R.; Seldin, J.P. (1986). Introduction...

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Higman's embedding theorem
Senin, 2025-06-02 09:30:51

algorithmically undecidable word problem. Indeed, it is fairly easy to construct a finitely generated recursively presented group with undecidable word problem...

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Partially observable Markov decision process
Jumat, 2026-07-03 21:45:57

compressed as possible (to reduce overfitting). Planning in POMDP is undecidable in general. However, some settings have been identified to be decidable...

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Reduction (complexity)
Kamis, 2025-12-11 01:38:14

Likewise, a reduction computing a noncomputable function can reduce an undecidable problem to a decidable one. As Michael Sipser points out in Introduction...

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Alonzo Church
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 17:51:06

Theorist Of the Limits of Mathematics". The New York Times. p. B6. "Undecidability of First-Order Logic" (PDF). Church, A. (1936). "An unsolvable problem...

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Word problem (mathematics)
Minggu, 2026-01-25 08:25:15

instances as well. Some deep results of computational theory concern the undecidability of this question in many important cases. In computer algebra one often...

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Alan Turing
Jumat, 2026-08-14 10:52:03

problem by first showing that the halting problem for Turing machines is undecidable: it is not possible to decide algorithmically whether a Turing machine...

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Metric interval temporal logic
Selasa, 2025-10-28 15:37:03

This fragment is often preferred to MTL because some problems that are undecidable for MTL become decidable for MITL. A MITL formula is an MTL formula,...

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Richardson's theorem
Senin, 2026-07-20 13:35:32

In mathematics, Richardson's theorem establishes the undecidability of the equality of real numbers defined by expressions involving integers, π, ln ⁡...

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Jacques Derrida
Rabu, 2026-08-05 11:01:28

of Authority’”, Derrida emphasizes the relation between decision and undecidability, and the tension between normativity and singularity. This interpretation...

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Metalogic
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 11:37:35

Decidability of first-order monadic predicate logic (Leopold Löwenheim 1915) Undecidability of first-order predicate logic (Church's theorem 1936) Other important...

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Optimizing compiler
Jumat, 2026-08-14 21:55:21

analysis indicates that some optimization problems are NP-complete, or even undecidable. Also, producing perfectly optimal code is not possible since optimizing...

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Adian–Rabin theorem
Kamis, 2025-07-24 03:14:54

"reasonable" properties of finitely presentable groups are algorithmically undecidable. The theorem is due to Sergei Adyan (1955) and, independently, Michael...

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Emil Leon Post
Rabu, 2026-05-27 17:35:54

undecidability. He showed that the Post correspondence problem (PCP) of satisfying their constraints is, in general, undecidable. The undecidability of...

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Selasa, 2026-07-07 07:06:59

the mathematician Raphael Douady, he called the problem statistical undecidability (Douady and Taleb, 2010). Taleb has described his main challenge as...

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Logical consequence
Kamis, 2026-07-09 23:24:45

Publications, Mineola, NY, 2003. Davis, Martin, ed. (1965), The Undecidable, Basic Papers on Undecidable Propositions, Unsolvable Problems And Computable Functions...

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Aperiodic set of prototiles
Senin, 2025-10-13 23:28:55

prototiles are seen on the list of aperiodic sets of tiles. The underlying undecidability of the domino problem implies that there exists no systematic procedure...

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Mathematics
Senin, 2026-08-10 17:09:30

2022-01-23. Retrieved 2022-01-23. Feferman, Solomon (1998). "Deciding the undecidable: Wrestling with Hilbert's problems" (PDF). In the Light of Logic. Logic...

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Penrose tiling
Jumat, 2026-08-14 07:48:54

Robinson, in a 1971 paper which simplified Berger's techniques and undecidability proof, used this technique to obtain an aperiodic set of just six prototiles...

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Collatz conjecture
Kamis, 2026-08-13 17:57:20

Colorado, Boulder. pp. 49–52. Kurtz, Stuart A.; Simon, Janos (2007). "The undecidability of the generalized Collatz problem". In Cai, J.-Y.; Cooper, S. B.; Zhu...

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Crocodile dilemma
Selasa, 2026-07-28 00:17:38

of paradoxes Self-reference Halting problem – the usual proof of its undecidability uses a similar contradiction Barile, Margherita. "Crocodile's Dilemma...

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Taylor Booth (mathematician)
Kamis, 2025-08-07 11:12:36

techniques, finite-state machines, Turing machines, Markov processes, and undecidability. Booth studied at the University of Connecticut, where he received his...

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Formal verification
Minggu, 2026-07-26 10:22:59

algorithmic implementations are guaranteed to terminate with an answer, or undecidable, meaning that they may never terminate. By bounding the scope of possibilities...

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Eudaimonia
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 23:24:50

(unstable, unbalanced, not measurable), and anepikrita (unjudged, unfixed, undecidable). Therefore, neither our sense-perceptions nor our doxai (views, theories...

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Static program analysis
Jumat, 2026-08-14 15:42:11

of violation of a specification on the final result of a program) is undecidable: there is no mechanical method that can always answer truthfully whether...

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Pale Fire
Senin, 2026-08-10 21:39:20

are newcomers to the book. Some readers see the book as oscillating undecidably between these alternatives, like the Rubin vase (a drawing that may be...

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Web Ontology Language
Rabu, 2026-08-12 08:42:12

the meaning of the pre-defined (RDF or OWL) vocabulary. OWL Full is undecidable, so no reasoning software is able to perform complete reasoning for it...

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Perl
Selasa, 2026-08-04 12:00:37

2008. and "Perl is Undecidable". The Perl Review. 5: 7–11. Fall 2008., available online at Kegler, Jeffrey. "Perl and Undecidability". Archived from the...

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Tessellation
Selasa, 2026-08-11 04:34:54

computers". Scientific American. pp. 98–106. Berger, Robert (1966). "The undecidability of the domino problem". Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society...

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Theorem
Jumat, 2026-06-19 04:21:42

arithmetic Tarski's undefinability theorem Church-Turing theorem of undecidability Löb's theorem Löwenheim–Skolem theorem Lindström's theorem Craig's theorem...

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Domain of a function
Jumat, 2026-08-14 23:22:30

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Turing's proof
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 05:10:26

answered by computation; more technically, that some decision problems are "undecidable" in the sense that there is no single algorithm that infallibly gives...

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Mathematical universe hypothesis
Rabu, 2026-08-05 23:17:55

time itself may not be predictable by a halting program, due to the undecidability of the halting problem. In response, Tegmark notes that a constructive...

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Real number
Selasa, 2026-08-04 06:46:07

be computable. Moreover, the equality of two computable numbers is an undecidable problem. Some constructivists accept the existence of only those reals...

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Mathematical proof
Senin, 2026-07-20 08:22:09

surprising being that almost all axiomatic systems can generate certain undecidable statements not provable within the system. The definition of a formal...

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Conway's Game of Life
Kamis, 2026-08-13 01:45:45

may therefore execute arbitrary programs. By the halting problem it is undecidable whether an arbitrary program executed in the Game of Life would ever...

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Monadic predicate calculus
Kamis, 2026-04-02 01:35:02

single binary relation symbol to monadic logic, however, results in an undecidable logic. The formal system described above is sometimes called the pure...

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Simplicial complex recognition problem
Selasa, 2026-06-23 14:51:48

is homeomorphic to another fixed simplicial complex. The problem is undecidable for complexes of dimension 5 or more. An abstract simplicial complex...

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AI alignment
Kamis, 2026-08-13 05:06:29

Nei Y.; Castro, Paulo A. L. (2025). "Machines that halt resolve the undecidability of artificial intelligence alignment". Scientific Reports. 15 (1): 15591...

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Leo Harrington
Selasa, 2025-10-21 21:23:26

JSTOR 2273508, S2CID 46061318 Harrington, L.; Shelah, S. (1982), "The undecidability of the recursively enumerable degrees", Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S...

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List of women in mathematics
Rabu, 2026-08-12 00:26:23

(1923–2016), Swiss-American group theorist and logician, expert on undecidability in group theory Annette Huber-Klawitter (born 1967), German algebraic...

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Fixed-point logic
Jumat, 2026-04-24 23:09:36

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Intuitionism
Selasa, 2026-05-05 01:56:18

Intuitionism (with respect to Brouwer). Martin Davis (ed.) (1965), The Undecidable, Raven Press, Hewlett, NY. Compilation of original papers by Gödel, Church...

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Computability theory
Selasa, 2026-08-11 20:12:50

are true or false. Many problems in mathematics have been shown to be undecidable after these initial examples were established. In 1947, Markov and Post...

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Philosophical skepticism
Rabu, 2026-08-12 18:42:18

[UK]: Acumen. pp. 108–109. ISBN 978-1-84465-409-3. OCLC 715184861. Undecidability and the ten modes As part of his Pyrrhonian revival Aenesidemus assembled...

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System F
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 02:45:08

However, type inference in System F (without explicit type annotations) is undecidable. Under the Curry–Howard isomorphism, System F corresponds to second-order...

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Syntax (logic)
Jumat, 2025-09-19 06:54:06

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Term logic
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 03:37:47

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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The Sisters (short story)
Minggu, 2026-07-05 04:31:18

Quarterly, vol. 19, no.3 (Spring 1982), pp. 239–255. Geary, Edward A. "Undecidability in Joyce's 'The Sisters,'" Studies in Short Fiction, vol. 26 (Summer...

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Gödel numbering
Minggu, 2026-03-15 12:07:28

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Peter Koellner
Minggu, 2025-12-28 18:56:41

anyone interested in modern set theory. On the Question of Absolute Undecidability, Philosophia Mathematica (III) 14 (2006) On Reflection Principles, Annals...

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Martin Davis (mathematician)
Kamis, 2026-02-19 22:36:05

2000. ISBN 9780393322293. Davis, Martin (2004). The Undecidable : Basic papers on undecidable propositions, unsolvable problems and computable functions...

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John von Neumann
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 08:49:40

Neumann suggested to Gödel that he should try to transform his results for undecidable propositions about integers. Less than a month later, von Neumann communicated...

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Gentzen's consistency proof
Senin, 2025-09-15 22:35:21

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Saharon Shelah
Sabtu, 2026-02-07 21:20:49

forcing arguments. With PCF theory, he showed that in spite of the undecidability of the most basic questions of cardinal arithmetic (such as the continuum...

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Paul Erdős
Jumat, 2026-08-14 05:39:28

ISBN 978-0-387-74640-1 Kurtz, Stuart A.; Simon, Janos (2007). "The Undecidability of the Generalized Collatz Problem". In Cai, Jin-Yi; Cooper, S. Barry;...

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Multiverse
Selasa, 2026-08-04 11:51:55

time itself may not be predictable by a halting program, due to the undecidability of the halting problem. He also explicitly discusses the more restricted...

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Combinatory logic
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 04:50:06

if any, are not applied to enough arguments to be simplified. It is undecidable whether a general combinatory term has a normal form; whether two combinatory...

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Ordinal definable set
Jumat, 2026-01-16 06:37:17

Problems in Mathematics", in Davis, Martin (ed.), The undecidable. Basic papers on undecidable propositions, unsolvable problems and computable functions...

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N-sphere
Kamis, 2026-07-30 18:46:52

(6)/\operatorname {SO} (5)=\operatorname {SU} (3)/\operatorname {SU} (2)} ⁠. It is undecidable whether a given ⁠ n {\displaystyle n} ⁠-dimensional manifold is homeomorphic...

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Three-valued logic
Senin, 2026-06-15 22:51:38

Stephen Cole Kleene used a third value to represent predicates that are "undecidable by [any] algorithms whether true or false" As with bivalent logic, truth...

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Interpretability
Minggu, 2025-08-03 12:45:09

Handbook of Proof Theory. North-Holland: 476–546. Alfred Tarski, Andrzej Mostowski, and Raphael Robinson (1953) Undecidable Theories. North-Holland. v t e...

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Monadic second-order logic
Minggu, 2026-05-03 06:35:57

that case. The satisfiability problem for monadic second-order logic is undecidable in general because this logic subsumes first-order logic. The monadic...

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Universal quantification
Selasa, 2026-07-28 11:04:06

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Oracle machine
Kamis, 2026-08-06 13:16:01

{\displaystyle R} ⁠ can be of any complexity class, or it can even be an undecidable problem such as the halting problem. If another problem ⁠ R ′ {\displaystyle...

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Object-oriented programming
Minggu, 2026-07-05 02:08:53

to handle using OOP's concept of inheritance. Behavioral subtyping is undecidable in general, so it cannot be easily implemented by a compiler. Because...

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Hopfian group
Minggu, 2026-08-09 08:20:13

it is an undecidable problem to determine, given a finite presentation of a group, whether the group is Hopfian. Unlike the undecidability of many properties...

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1936
Minggu, 2026-08-02 14:46:41

May 28 - Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers", proving the undecidability of the Halting problem and the decision problem for logic. Computer...

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Symbol (formal)
Rabu, 2026-05-13 17:13:08

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Universal Turing machine
Senin, 2026-08-03 10:42:57

general, undecidable in Turing's original paper. Rice's theorem shows that any non-trivial question about the output of a Turing machine is undecidable. A universal...

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Decider (Turing machine)
Jumat, 2026-02-06 22:49:43

arbitrary Turing machine, determining whether it is a decider is an undecidable problem. This is a variant of the halting problem, which asks for whether...

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Constructivism (philosophy of mathematics)
Selasa, 2026-05-05 18:04:29

disproof of Goldbach's conjecture must exist (the conjecture may be undecidable in traditional ZF set theory). Thus to Brouwer, we are not justified...

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Cellular automaton
Minggu, 2026-05-31 05:43:16

which are sometimes called Culik–Yu classes; membership in these proved undecidable. Wolfram's class 2 can be partitioned into two subgroups of stable (fixed-point)...

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Abelian group
Selasa, 2026-05-05 00:07:25

is also the first question in ordinary mathematics proved undecidable in ZFC; Undecidable even if ZFC is augmented by taking the generalized continuum...

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Paul de Man
Selasa, 2026-07-28 05:47:09

assumptions about language, and in so doing dictates a statement about undecidability, the difficulties inherent in totalization, their own readability, or...

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Type system
Senin, 2026-08-10 00:11:40

comes at a price when the type inferences (and other properties) become undecidable, and when more attention must be paid by the programmer to annotate code...

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Paul Cohen
Jumat, 2026-07-31 09:08:16

disproved from these axioms. In this sense, the continuum hypothesis is undecidable, and it is the most widely known example of a natural statement that...

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Constant problem
Rabu, 2025-06-04 07:57:35

that a given expression is non-zero, or of showing that the problem is undecidable. For example, if x1, ..., xn are real numbers, then there is an algorithm...

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Infinite loop
Selasa, 2026-06-16 08:39:13

whether a given program will ever halt or will run forever; this is the undecidability of the halting problem. As long as the system is responsive, infinite...

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Reductionism
Senin, 2026-06-29 10:00:30

propositions are known as formally undecidable propositions. For example, the continuum hypothesis is undecidable in the Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory as...

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Type variance
Kamis, 2026-07-09 14:50:26

termination, type argument inference, and ambiguous programs. In general it is undecidable whether a Java program using generics is well-typed or not, so any type...

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Class (set theory)
Jumat, 2026-01-02 01:23:14

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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History of logic
Senin, 2026-08-10 19:31:27

Church proved additional undecidability results, showing that both Peano arithmetic and first-order logic are undecidable. Later work by Emil Post and...

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Abstraction (computer science)
Selasa, 2025-12-09 01:39:49

from them—even though the abstraction may simply yield a result of undecidability. For instance, students in a class may be abstracted by their minimal...

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Computably enumerable set
Jumat, 2026-07-10 04:01:26

this poset is a lattice. The theory of this lattice is known to be an undecidable problem. Similarly, the set of all computably enumerable vector spaces...

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Parsing expression grammar
Jumat, 2026-08-07 00:02:46

expression language from its grammar. Furthermore, it is algorithmically undecidable whether the language recognized by a parsing expression grammar is empty...

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Elementary equivalence
Jumat, 2026-03-20 21:15:03

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Automated theorem proving
Minggu, 2026-08-02 23:28:48

shortly after this positive result, Kurt Gödel published On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems (1931), showing...

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Set theory
Senin, 2026-07-27 06:10:25

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Metric temporal logic
Jumat, 2025-12-05 17:09:47

formalism for real-time systems. Full MTL over infinite timed words is undecidable. The full metric temporal logic is defined similarly to linear temporal...

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Rank of a group
Sabtu, 2025-11-22 17:58:05

about it. Known results include: The rank problem is algorithmically undecidable for the class of all finitely presented groups. Indeed, by a classical...

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Sam Louwyck
Kamis, 2026-07-16 13:03:18

Meanwhile on Earth Annick Jérémy Clapin Mr. K Tallulah H. Schwab Night Call Greg Michiel Blanchart 2025 Undecidable Professor Abraham Emanuele Bosco Short...

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Satisfiability modulo theories
Jumat, 2026-08-14 03:05:49

NP-complete, the SMT problem is typically NP-hard, and for many theories it is undecidable. Researchers study which theories or subsets of theories lead to a decidable...

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Ultraproduct
Selasa, 2026-04-28 22:15:49

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Emergence
Rabu, 2026-08-12 06:31:52

then one would be able to solve computational problems known to be undecidable in computer science. These results concern infinite systems, finite systems...

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Anatoly Maltsev
Rabu, 2026-08-05 23:57:49

elementary theories of various algebraic structures. He showed the undecidability of the elementary theory of finite groups, of free nilpotent groups...

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Prime model
Selasa, 2025-12-02 07:29:59

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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James Ax
Minggu, 2026-08-02 14:14:11

1090/s0002-9904-1965-11354-4. MR 0199177. Ax, James (1965). "On the undecidability of power series fields". Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society...

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Gödel's β function
Jumat, 2026-01-23 04:35:31

Press, ISBN 0-19-853189-3. Martin Davis, ed. (1965). The Undecidable – Basic Papers on Undecidable Propositions, Unsolvable Problems and Computable Functions...

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Antichrist (film)
Selasa, 2026-08-04 12:10:04

"in-between bits, the judders and rumbles and low howls drifting somewhere undecidable between composed music and sound design ... the un-music, the audiable...

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Turing completeness
Minggu, 2026-08-02 09:42:55

might contain the solution to the halting problem or some other Turing-undecidable problem. Such an infinite tape of data is called a Turing oracle. Even...

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Computability
Kamis, 2026-07-23 09:51:34

called non-computable or undecidable. An extension of the halting problem is called Rice's theorem, which states that it is undecidable (in general) whether...

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Foundations of mathematics
Kamis, 2026-08-13 11:03:17

provided us with the right preconceptions. Weinberg believed that any undecidability in mathematics, such as the continuum hypothesis, could be potentially...

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Hierarchy of the sciences
Rabu, 2026-07-29 12:15:03

and God", in Driessen, Alfred; Suarez, Antoine (eds.), Mathematical Undecidability, Quantum Nonlocality and the Question of the Existence of God, Dordrecht:...

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Walter Carnielli
Senin, 2025-07-28 18:02:17

the foundations of mathematics, with the timeline Computability and Undecidability. Second edition. Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, Belmont, CA, 2000. W. A...

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Constructor theory
Minggu, 2026-03-22 21:32:19

special case of superinformation. Calculating Space Computability theory Undecidable problem Quantum circuit Generalized probabilistic theory Heaven, Douglas...

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Equality-generating dependency
Kamis, 2025-04-03 09:03:58

more generally, a set of EDs), and, if it terminates (which is a priori undecidable), output an instance that does satisfy the EGDs. An important subclass...

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Unit testing
Selasa, 2026-07-28 02:25:07

programs. This problem is a superset of the halting problem, which is undecidable. The same is true for unit testing. Additionally, unit testing by definition...

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Distributed computing
Rabu, 2026-08-12 02:28:49

is to decide whether it halts or runs forever. The halting problem is undecidable in the general case, and naturally understanding the behaviour of a computer...

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Aleph number
Senin, 2026-05-04 19:14:22

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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John Horton Conway
Jumat, 2026-07-31 21:23:31

that a natural generalization of the Collatz problem is algorithmically undecidable. Related to that, he developed the esoteric programming language FRACTRAN...

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Inaccessible cardinal
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 03:47:25

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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List of conjectures
Senin, 2026-08-10 14:49:06

unsolved problems List of lemmas List of theorems List of statements undecidable in ZFC Weisstein, Eric W. (2002). CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics...

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Intuitionistic logic
Kamis, 2026-07-23 08:12:48

{\displaystyle A} is provable. If a theory with the disjunction property has undecidable propositions, the excluded middle disjunctions of some excluded middle...

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Hereditary set
Selasa, 2025-09-09 06:29:01

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Simplicial complex
Jumat, 2026-07-17 13:02:31

whether it is homeomorphic to a given geometric object. This problem is undecidable for any d-dimensional manifolds for d ≥ 5 {\displaystyle d\geq 5} . Abstract...

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Reality
Selasa, 2026-08-11 19:14:05

false, while according to anti-realism, there is a third option for undecidable sentences that can be neither verified nor falsified. Knowledge is an...

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Boolean circuit
Sabtu, 2025-11-01 12:11:16

proper (i.e. P ⊊ {\displaystyle \subsetneq } P/poly) because there are undecidable problems that are in P/poly. P/poly turns out to have a number of properties...

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Bjorn Poonen
Selasa, 2026-03-03 23:42:17

elected in 2012 Chauvenet Prize: the 2011 winner, for his article "Undecidability in number theory" Miller Research Professorship – University of California...

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Semantics (logic)
Senin, 2026-04-20 08:59:01

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Turing degree
Rabu, 2026-08-12 22:19:33

Shore, R. (1993). "The theories of the T, tt, and wtt r.e. degrees: undecidability and beyond". In Univ. Nac. del Sur, Bahía Blanca (ed.). Proceedings...

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Logical conjunction
Kamis, 2026-07-30 00:41:03

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Sous rature
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 16:07:36

concepts may be paradoxical or self-undermining, rendering their meaning undecidable. To extend this notion, deconstruction and the practice of sous rature...

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Markov chain
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 03:38:05

minimization techniques, FSMs, Turing machines, Markov processes, and undecidability. Excellent treatment of Markov processes pp. 449ff. Discusses Z-transforms...

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Binary operation
Selasa, 2026-06-30 03:59:33

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Church–Turing thesis
Kamis, 2026-06-18 17:49:28

Publishers. pp. 137–160. Davis, Martin, ed. (1965). The Undecidable, Basic Papers on Undecidable Propositions, Unsolvable Problems And Computable Functions...

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Power set
Kamis, 2026-07-09 03:53:22

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Pyrrhonism
Rabu, 2026-07-29 19:29:58

(reciprocal mode). According to the mode deriving from dispute, we find that undecidable dissension about the matter proposed has come about both in ordinary...

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Glossary of logic
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 14:18:41

See temporal modal logic. Church's theorem A theorem establishing the undecidability of certain decision problems in logic, such as the Entscheidungsproblem...

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Dependent ML
Selasa, 2025-04-29 06:29:17

dependent types type checking remains decidable, but type inference becomes undecidable. Dependent ML has been superseded by ATS and is no longer under active...

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Predicate (logic)
Jumat, 2026-07-31 12:24:18

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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LL parser
Jumat, 2026-05-01 03:52:46

determining if there exists a LL(k) parser for some k that recognizes it is undecidable. For each k, there is a language that cannot be recognized by an LL(k)...

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Indicator function
Kamis, 2025-09-11 09:42:17

Kurt Gödel described the representing function in his 1934 paper "On undecidable propositions of formal mathematical systems" (the symbol "¬" indicates...

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Johann Makowsky
Kamis, 2026-03-05 11:16:05

with Saharon Shelah and Jonathan Stavi). In database theory, the first undecidability result of the consequence problem for database dependencies (with Ashok...

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Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
Senin, 2026-07-13 05:39:42

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Open formula
Minggu, 2026-01-25 00:08:59

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Liskov substitution principle
Kamis, 2026-07-30 22:29:11

parameter types and covariance of the return type. Behavioural subtyping is undecidable in general: if q is the property "method for x always terminates", then...

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Theory of computation
Rabu, 2026-06-10 06:01:30

states that for all non-trivial properties of partial functions, it is undecidable whether a Turing machine computes a partial function with that property...

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Subset
Senin, 2026-06-29 05:45:38

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Model theory
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 03:42:24

92. Tarski, Alfred (1953), "I: A General Method in Proofs of Undecidability", Undecidable Theories, Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics...

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Block cellular automaton
Jumat, 2026-01-09 15:42:53

cellular automaton with a larger number of states; however, because of the undecidability of reversibility for non-block cellular automata, there is no computable...

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Principia Mathematica
Senin, 2026-08-10 15:15:23

p. 130. Kleene 1952, p. 46. Gödel, Kurt (2022) [1962]. On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems. Translated...

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Constructible universe
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 15:24:24

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Element of a set
Kamis, 2026-08-13 09:57:37

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Polyomino
Rabu, 2026-07-22 02:26:49

shows that whether polyominoes from a given set can tile the plane is undecidable, by mapping sets of Wang tiles to sets of polyominoes. Because the general...

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Zygmunt Bauman
Selasa, 2026-06-16 20:23:48

the stranger as the person who is present yet unfamiliar, society's undecidable. In Modernity and Ambivalence Bauman attempted to give an account of...

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Function (computer programming)
Minggu, 2026-07-19 03:16:21

Determining whether a callable has a side effect is difficult – indeed, undecidable by virtue of Rice's theorem. So, while this optimization is safe in a...

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Successor cardinal
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 15:01:34

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Physicalism
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 11:47:49

algorithmically decided, and some semantic properties of programs are undecidable. Thus, even an indefinitely information-generating physical reality need...

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Tashi delek
Jumat, 2025-09-05 22:30:15

ISBN 978-0-86171-396-7 Oha, Obododimma (2008), "Language, Exile, and the Burden of Undecidable Citizenship: Tenzin Tsundue and the Tibetan Experience", in Allatson...

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Proof without words
Jumat, 2026-01-02 09:10:35

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Expressive power (computer science)
Senin, 2026-02-09 02:59:48

formalism say. Decision problems become harder to answer or completely undecidable. Formal language theory mostly studies formalisms to describe sets of...

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Richard's paradox
Senin, 2024-11-18 16:55:19

syntactical incompleteness result in the introductory section of "On Formally Undecidable Propositions in Principia Mathematica and Related Systems I". The paradox...

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Venn diagram
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 02:29:27

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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List of agnostics
Kamis, 2026-08-13 00:50:06

that this linguistic indeterminacy, or as J. Hillis Miller terms it, undecidability, places Carlyle as a perhaps unwilling and yet important contributor...

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Law of noncontradiction
Minggu, 2026-04-05 08:38:01

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Garbage (computer science)
Selasa, 2026-07-07 07:24:42

accessed; determining the latter requires code analysis, and is in general undecidable. Syntactic garbage is a (usually strict) subset of semantic garbage,...

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STIT logic
Senin, 2026-08-10 19:59:14

fragments, showing for instance that many expressive group STIT logics are undecidable or of high computational complexity. In the 2010s, STIT ideas were combined...

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Arity
Senin, 2026-07-13 07:58:38

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Aporia
Rabu, 2026-07-22 07:58:25

refers to three "aporias": "the epoche of the rule", "the ghost of the undecidable", and "the urgency that obstructs the horizon of knowledge". Aporia is...

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Jarkko Kari
Kamis, 2025-04-24 16:13:42

whether a set of Wang tiles forms a valid tessellation is undecidable, and its undecidability rests on finding sets of Wang tiles that can only tesselate...

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Bijection
Senin, 2026-06-01 19:36:40

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Hélène Cixous
Rabu, 2026-07-22 09:19:36

'communion.'" Judaism cloaked in Catholicism is one example of the undecidability of identity that influenced the thinker whom Cixous calls a "Jewish...

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Non-logical symbol
Kamis, 2025-10-02 03:57:34

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Alfred Tarski
Senin, 2026-07-13 01:10:09

arithmetic is also incomplete by Gödel's incompleteness theorem. In his 1953 Undecidable theories, Tarski et al. showed that many mathematical systems, including...

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Formal grammar
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 15:37:11

CRC Press, p. 233, ISBN 9781466513457. For more on this subject, see undecidable problem. Chomsky, Noam (Sep 1956). "Three models for the description...

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Spectrum of a theory
Rabu, 2024-03-20 03:43:23

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Embedded dependency
Minggu, 2026-08-09 03:46:22

may not satisfy a set of EDs, and, if it terminates (which is a priori undecidable), output an instance that does satisfy the EDs. An embedded dependency...

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Post–Turing machine
Jumat, 2026-03-27 02:05:41

always order a printing and a motion, right, left, or none" (footnote 12, Undecidable, p. 300) Like Turing, he defined erasure as printing a symbol "S0". And...

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MISRA C
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 20:48:04

required/advisory) Third edition: 2012 (directives; rules, Decidable/Undecidable) MISRA compliance: 2016, updated 2020 MISRA C:2023 (MISRA C Third edition...

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Theory (mathematical logic)
Minggu, 2026-06-14 20:53:50

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Regular tree grammar
Selasa, 2026-08-11 21:10:12

pp. 161–172. Allowing equality tests between deeper nodes leads to undecidability. See: Tommasi, M. (1991). Automates d'Arbres avec Tests d'Égalités entre...

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Postmodernism
Senin, 2026-07-27 13:01:41

validate by textual analysis, that any text harbors inherent points of "undecidability" that undermine any stable meaning intended by the author. The process...

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Variable (mathematics)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 08:30:33

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Cristopher Moore
Jumat, 2026-06-19 00:18:44

Advancement of Science. Moore, Cristopher (1990), "Unpredictability and undecidability in dynamical systems", Physical Review Letters, 64 (20): 2354–2357,...

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Transitive set
Rabu, 2026-07-08 09:09:46

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Emptiness problem
Senin, 2025-09-29 01:52:07

undecidable for context-sensitive grammars, a fact that follows from the undecidability of the halting problem. It is, however, decidable for context-free grammars...

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Justification (epistemology)
Jumat, 2026-07-17 22:38:10

instead of justifying them. Skepticism – Knowledge is impossible or undecidable. Robert Fogelin claims to detect a suspicious resemblance between the...

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Axiom
Senin, 2026-08-03 13:46:25

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Free module
Selasa, 2026-04-21 12:43:38

non-commutative) local ring is free. Sometimes, whether a module is free or not is undecidable in the set-theoretic sense. A famous example is the Whitehead problem...

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Tarski's theorem about choice
Minggu, 2026-02-01 21:11:51

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Range of a function
Rabu, 2026-05-27 05:58:33

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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First presidency of Rómulo Betancourt
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 20:55:35

d'état… but whatever its origin, the truth is that we were animated by the undecidable decision that the provisional government would give the country the revolutionary...

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Intersection (set theory)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 21:21:14

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Effective method
Rabu, 2026-07-01 12:18:10

in number theory Function problem Model of computation Recursive set Undecidable problem Hunter, Geoffrey (1996) [1971]. "1.7: The notion of effective...

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Greibach's theorem
Minggu, 2025-04-13 23:25:32

quotients: Regular language#Closure properties. Sheila Greibach (1963). "The undecidability of the ambiguity problem for minimal linear grammars". Information and...

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Karl Svozil
Rabu, 2025-09-24 16:29:55

Media. ISBN 978-981-4021-07-4. Svozil, Karl (1993). Randomness and Undecidability in Physics. WORLD SCIENTIFIC. Bibcode:1993rup..book.....S. doi:10.1142/1524...

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P/poly
Selasa, 2026-01-20 05:44:53

considered a practical class for computing. Indeed, it contains every undecidable unary language, none of which can be solved in general by real computers...

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Functional programming
Rabu, 2026-07-29 06:09:47

from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-07. Huet, Gérard P. (1973). "The Undecidability of Unification in Third Order Logic". Information and Control. 22 (3):...

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Argument
Selasa, 2026-07-14 19:33:01

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Literary theory
Rabu, 2026-07-29 07:40:45

concepts may be paradoxical or self-undermining, rendering their meaning undecidable Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, J. Hillis Miller, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe...

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Russell's paradox
Senin, 2026-07-13 13:21:44

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Sappho
Kamis, 2026-08-06 13:04:22

poetry can be read as queer even if the question of her lesbianism is undecidable. In antiquity, Sappho's poetry was highly admired, and several ancient...

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Existential quantification
Selasa, 2026-04-07 07:13:54

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Second-order logic
Rabu, 2026-08-12 22:16:11

{N} } ,+)) can interpret the true second-order arithmetic and is thus undecidable. Just as in first-order logic, second-order logic may include non-logical...

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Context-sensitive grammar
Selasa, 2026-08-11 10:08:05

context-sensitive grammars (given a context-sensitive grammar G, is L(G)=∅ ?) is undecidable. Savitch has proven the following theoretical result, on which he bases...

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Substance theory
Kamis, 2026-07-16 12:14:14

(unstable, unbalanced, not measurable), and anepikrita (unjudged, unfixed, undecidable). Therefore, neither our sense-perceptions nor our doxai (views, theories...

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Consistency
Kamis, 2026-05-28 05:36:47

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Computable function
Senin, 2026-02-23 00:00:04

the London Mathematical Society, Series 2, Volume 42 (1937), p.230–265. Reprinted in M. Davis (ed.), The Undecidable, Raven Press, Hewlett, NY, 1965....

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Strange loop
Sabtu, 2026-06-13 18:49:58

Hilbert-Bernays provability conditions do not obtain), one can construct formally undecidable (or even formally refutable) Henkin-sentences for the arithmetical system...

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Classical logic
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 11:36:02

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Logical connective
Minggu, 2026-05-24 07:51:25

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Petri net
Selasa, 2026-08-11 01:13:41

A.; Schnoebelen, Ph. (1998). "Reset Nets Between Decidability and Undecidability". Proceedings of the 25th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages...

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Outline of logic
Minggu, 2026-02-01 10:03:39

problem History of the Church–Turing thesis Lambda calculus List of undecidable problems Post correspondence problem Post's theorem Primitive recursive...

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Textuality
Kamis, 2025-02-20 18:59:58

is that which constitutes a text in a particular way. The text is an undecidable (there is an inexistence of an effective or "strict" method of writing...

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Alphabet (formal languages)
Minggu, 2026-03-22 10:20:50

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Senin, 2026-07-06 00:20:55

technical logic terms such as tiyuvta "conclusive refutation" and tiqu "undecidable moot point", which are still used in Jewish legal writings, including...

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Fraïssé limit
Senin, 2025-03-03 23:42:26

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Raymond Smullyan
Selasa, 2026-01-27 07:42:19

logic — (1987). Forever Undecided. ISBN 0192801414. puzzles based on undecidability in formal systems — (1992). Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems. New York:...

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Recursion
Jumat, 2026-08-14 05:32:31

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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HNN extension
Sabtu, 2025-12-06 23:08:24

about the existence of a finitely presented group with algorithmically undecidable word problem also substantially use HNN-extensions. The idea of HNN extension...

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John Myhill
Selasa, 2025-03-11 05:48:41

states that, for any nontrivial property P of partial functions, it is undecidable whether a given Turing machine computes a function with property P. The...

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Church encoding
Minggu, 2026-08-02 16:00:20

general to decide if two functions are extensionally equal due to the undecidability of equivalence from Church's theorem. The translation may apply the...

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Formal proof
Jumat, 2026-06-19 04:41:01

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Turing reduction
Rabu, 2026-07-01 18:22:07

possible that B is an undecidable problem for which no algorithm exists. M. Davis, ed., 1965. The Undecidable—Basic Papers on Undecidable Propositions, Unsolvable...

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Axiomatic system
Jumat, 2026-08-14 02:52:35

false by using the axioms. However, note that in some cases it may be undecidable if a statement can be proven or not. A model for an axiomatic system...

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5-manifold
Selasa, 2024-06-11 16:59:12

isomorphism in second homology is induced by some diffeomorphism. It is undecidable if a given 5-manifold is homeomorphic to S 5 {\displaystyle S^{5}} ,...

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Computational problem
Kamis, 2025-07-17 11:19:42

problem will require, and explain why some problems are intractable or undecidable. Solvable computational problems belong to complexity classes that define...

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First-order logic
Minggu, 2026-08-02 22:20:08

logical consequence of φ. Unlike propositional logic, first-order logic is undecidable (although semidecidable), provided that the language has at least one...

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Enumeration
Rabu, 2026-08-12 17:08:01

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Yang–Mills existence and mass gap
Kamis, 2026-08-06 20:08:06

mass gap (a special case of a spectral gap) in a system is known to be undecidable, meaning no computer algorithm exists that can find the answer programmatically...

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Hypercomputation
Jumat, 2025-12-19 00:30:30

used this device to prove that even in those more powerful systems, undecidability is still present. Turing's oracle machines are mathematical abstractions...

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Structure (mathematical logic)
Rabu, 2026-05-06 00:05:31

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Model checking
Selasa, 2025-11-18 15:25:09

is most often applied to hardware designs. For software, because of undecidability (see computability theory) the approach cannot be fully algorithmic...

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ALL (complexity)
Jumat, 2024-07-26 01:27:37

In computability and complexity theory, ALL is the class of all decision problems. ALL contains all of the complex classes of decision problems, including...

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Induction, bounding and least number principles
Selasa, 2026-06-23 08:03:26

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Alain Badiou
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 01:38:59

these four domains one performs a 'generic procedure', which in its undecidability is necessarily experimental, and one potentially recasts the situation...

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Busy beaver
Kamis, 2026-08-13 23:36:07

2023. Retrieved 27 August 2023. Riebel, Johannes (March 2023). The Undecidability of BB(748): Understanding Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems (PDF) (Bachelor's...

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Skolem arithmetic
Jumat, 2026-07-31 20:36:55

can express both multiplication and addition, the resulting theory is undecidable. If we have an ordering predicate on natural numbers (less than, < {\displaystyle...

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Kőnig's theorem (set theory)
Selasa, 2026-06-02 20:26:35

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Praiseworthy (novel)
Kamis, 2026-01-29 14:03:57

eye that causes the story to hover between tragedy and farce. This undecidability is the symptom of the scale of the novel's address. Wright is that rare...

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Quantifier (logic)
Jumat, 2026-07-31 14:24:57

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Constructive analysis
Kamis, 2026-02-26 17:30:12

In mathematics, constructive analysis is mathematical analysis done according to some principles of constructive mathematics. The name of the subject contrasts...

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Theory of everything
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 16:22:27

limit-computable, deterministic universes whose pseudo-randomness based on undecidable, Gödel-like halting problems is extremely hard to detect but does not...

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Union (set theory)
Rabu, 2026-06-10 02:48:55

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Expression (mathematics)
Rabu, 2026-07-15 23:06:00

programming language theory. The equivalence of two lambda expressions is undecidable (but see unification (computer science)). This is also the case for the...

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Pyrrho
Senin, 2026-06-01 16:46:03

Classical Quarterly, 52 (2002): 248–56. Svavarsson, Svavar Hrafn, "Pyrrho's undecidable nature", Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 27 (2004): 249–295. Library...

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Syntax (programming languages)
Senin, 2026-06-29 05:25:08

distinction between parsing and execution, and makes syntax analysis an undecidable problem in these languages, meaning that the parsing phase may not finish...

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Deconstruction
Rabu, 2026-08-12 08:25:29

a free play but from the necessity of analysis. Derrida called these undecidables—that is, unities of simulacrum—"false" verbal properties (nominal or...

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Julia Robinson
Jumat, 2026-07-31 08:00:35

Her dissertation showed that the theory of the rational numbers was an undecidable problem, by demonstrating that elementary number theory could be defined...

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List of axiomatic systems in logic
Senin, 2026-05-18 22:45:54

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Sums of three cubes
Selasa, 2026-06-16 21:09:49

1090/s0025-5718-1992-1146835-5, JSTOR 2153078, MR 1146835 Poonen, Bjorn (2008), "Undecidability in number theory" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society...

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Decidability of first-order theories of the real numbers
Jumat, 2024-04-26 06:15:46

is undecidable since this allows encoding of the undecidable theory of integers (see Richardson's theorem). Still, one can handle the undecidable case...

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Rounding
Senin, 2026-08-03 17:13:03

calculated. Specific instances cannot be given but this follows from the undecidability of the halting problem. For instance, if Goldbach's conjecture is true...

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Lenin Prize
Minggu, 2026-06-21 19:54:48

(1957, space science) Pyotr Novikov (1957, mathematics, for proving the undecidability of the word problem for groups) Sergei Prokofiev (1957, music, posthumously...

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Jean Baudrillard
Selasa, 2026-07-28 07:20:20

Banal Reality: Comparative Thoughts on Simulation and Concreteness". The Undecidable Unconscious: A Journal of Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis. 6 (1): 29–45...

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Rule of inference
Selasa, 2026-05-12 09:22:33

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Hybrid system
Senin, 2026-06-29 22:42:39

abstraction refinement, and barrier certificates. Most verification tasks are undecidable, making general verification algorithms impossible. Instead, the tools...

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Ambiguous grammar
Jumat, 2025-12-12 08:20:04

The decision problem of whether an arbitrary grammar is ambiguous is undecidable because it can be shown that it is equivalent to the Post correspondence...

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Mathematical induction
Kamis, 2026-07-23 17:46:24

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Differentiable manifold
Minggu, 2026-07-12 23:18:10

homeomorphism problem for 4-manifolds is undecidable. In addition, since even recognizing the trivial group is undecidable, it is not even possible in general...

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Computational irreducibility
Kamis, 2026-01-01 01:55:21

computational irreducibility notes". A New Kind of Science. Wolfram, Stephen, "Undecidability and intractability in theoretical physics". Physical Review Letters...

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Negation
Minggu, 2026-06-14 20:33:12

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Recursively enumerable language
Selasa, 2026-04-14 00:25:16

hence it is recursively enumerable. On the other hand, the problem is undecidable. Some other recursively enumerable languages that are not recursive include:...

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Unrestricted grammar
Kamis, 2025-12-11 03:41:36

the grammar. The latter problem is called the halting problem and is undecidable. Recursively enumerable languages are closed under Kleene star, concatenation...

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Truth value
Kamis, 2026-07-09 00:08:07

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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List of superseded scientific theories
Rabu, 2026-08-12 05:47:52

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Specters of Marx
Sabtu, 2025-07-19 01:19:21

United States - Japan - Europe. Contradictions of the free market. The undecidable conflicts between protectionism and free trade. The unstoppable flow...

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Pointer analysis
Minggu, 2026-05-24 20:02:47

which generally means better performance. Reps, Thomas (2000-01-01). "Undecidability of context-sensitive data-dependence analysis". ACM Transactions on...

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Datalog
Rabu, 2026-08-05 20:08:37

queries. Solving the boundedness problem on arbitrary Datalog programs is undecidable, but it can be made decidable by restricting to some fragments of Datalog...

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Melencolia I
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 05:19:14

Bałus, Wojciech (1994). "Dürer's 'Melencolia I': Melancholy and the Undecidable". Artibus et Historiae. 15 (30): 9–21. doi:10.2307/1483470. JSTOR 1483470...

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Risch algorithm
Rabu, 2026-07-01 05:36:14

Specifically, the algorithm cannot solve the constant problem, which is undecidable when it needs to determine whether an arbitrary complex number expression...

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Range concatenation grammar
Jumat, 2026-07-17 13:54:42

the above is that it is undecidable whether a (positive) range concatenation language is nonempty, because it is undecidable whether the intersection...

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Tautology (logic)
Jumat, 2026-05-29 09:09:20

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Injective function
Rabu, 2026-04-01 00:47:42

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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History of anarchism
Rabu, 2026-07-29 10:33:35

Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-75620-2. de Acosta, Alejandro (2009). "Two undecidable questions for thinking in which anything goes". In Randall Amster (ed...

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Inhabited set
Kamis, 2026-02-05 05:03:41

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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General recursive function
Selasa, 2026-03-03 00:51:19

difference is, that it becomes undecidable whether a specific function definition defines a μ-recursive function, as it is undecidable whether a computable (i...

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Hilbert system
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 15:38:09

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Computable number
Kamis, 2026-06-18 18:46:25

number that encodes the solution of the halting problem (or any other undecidable problem) according to a chosen encoding scheme. Chaitin's constant, Ω...

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Program analysis
Minggu, 2025-09-21 21:32:34

vulnerability. Due to many forms of static analysis being computationally undecidable, the mechanisms for performing it may not always terminate with the correct...

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Linear network coding
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 03:29:12

2386L. doi:10.1109/TIT.2006.874434. S2CID 1414385. Li, C. T. (2023). "Undecidability of Network Coding, Conditional Information Inequalities, and Conditional...

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Lillie's Bordello
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 03:16:31

Ron Wood". Last.fm. 8 November 2024. Gorman, Clare (1 June 2015). The Undecidable: Jacques Derrida and Paul Howard. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781443883597...

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Bootstrapping (compilers)
Kamis, 2025-11-20 17:14:29

science, such as the variation of the proof that the halting problem is undecidable that uses Rice's Theorem. Due to security concerns regarding the Trusting...

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Well-formed formula
Minggu, 2026-03-01 20:20:33

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Joint spectral radius
Minggu, 2026-07-19 18:10:54

equal. Moreover, determining if ρ ≤ 1 {\displaystyle \rho \leq 1} is an undecidable problem. Nevertheless, in recent years much progress has been done on...

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Outline of algorithms
Rabu, 2026-05-06 22:19:54

(complexity) NP-completeness NP-hardness EXPTIME PSPACE BPP (complexity) BQP Undecidable problem Halting problem Rice's theorem No free lunch theorem List of...

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List of atheists in science and technology
Selasa, 2026-08-11 12:08:50

to believe in a god."" Alfred Driessen, Antoine Suarez, Mathematical undecidability, quantum nonlocality, and the question of the existence of God (1997)...

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Trakhtenbrot's theorem
Rabu, 2026-08-05 13:38:37

of validity in first-order logic on the class of all finite models is undecidable. In fact, the class of valid sentences over finite models is not recursively...

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Formal system
Senin, 2026-08-10 08:28:17

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Böhm tree
Kamis, 2026-04-09 02:22:06

x.x\bot } . Determining whether a term has a head normal form is an undecidable problem. Barendregt introduced a notion of an "effective" Böhm tree that...

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List of pioneers in computer science
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 04:33:48

known as the Church-Turing Thesis and proved that first-order logic is undecidable. 1962 Clark, Wesley A. Designed LINC, the first functional computer scaled...

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Flamen
Minggu, 2026-08-09 00:49:09

Emperors (divus). The etymology of flamen remains obscure, and perhaps undecidable. The term is traditionally connected with the Proto-Germanic verb *blōtaną...

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Lambda calculus
Jumat, 2026-08-14 22:15:14

decide the question. This was historically the first problem for which undecidability could be proven. As usual for such a proof, computable means computable...

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Timeline of artificial intelligence
Jumat, 2026-08-14 02:38:30

He used it to confirm Gödel by proving that the halting problem is undecidable. 1940 Edward Condon displayed Nimatron, a digital machine that played...

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Automata theory
Jumat, 2026-07-17 11:35:38

 29–122. Section 4.1: Decidable Languages, pp. 152–159. Section 5.1: Undecidable Problems from Language Theory, pp. 172–183. Elaine Rich (2008). Automata...

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Referential integrity
Kamis, 2025-08-28 00:20:35

dependencies that can be inclusion dependencies or functional dependencies is undecidable by reduction from the word problem for monoids. Declarative referential...

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Tag system
Kamis, 2026-07-09 12:21:03

of the halting problem is among the simplest, most-easily described undecidable decision problems: Given an arbitrary positive integer n and a list of...

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Quantum mind
Jumat, 2026-08-14 23:53:08

Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-01-4534-6. Gödel, Kurt (1992). On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems (Reprint ed...

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List of aperiodic sets of tiles
Senin, 2026-06-22 22:48:16

(PDF) from the original on 2012-03-07 Robinson, Raphael M. (1971), "Undecidability and nonperiodicity of tilings in the plane", Inventiones Mathematicae...

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Pharmakon
Selasa, 2025-11-25 03:24:59

"poison"] actually do interpretive violence to what would otherwise remain undecidable." Whereas a straightforward view on Plato's treatment of writing (in...

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Beth number
Rabu, 2026-04-22 06:33:15

{\displaystyle \beth _{\alpha }} can exist. (In that case, the existence is undecidable in ZFC and controlled by the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis.) Even...

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RE (complexity)
Selasa, 2026-07-21 01:12:40

LL}}-({\mbox{RE}}\cup {\mbox{co-RE}})} . Not only are these problems undecidable, but neither they nor their complement are recursively enumerable. In...

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List of Martin Gardner Mathematical Games columns
Selasa, 2026-02-24 07:36:31

the Solar System 1970 May Of optical illusions, from figures that are undecidable to hot dogs that float 1970 Jun Elegant triangle theorems not to be found...

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Stratification (mathematics)
Rabu, 2026-03-18 22:58:33

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Transcendental number theory
Selasa, 2026-05-12 09:06:51

Baker 1975, p. 90. Baker 1975, p. 86. Richardson, D. (1968). "Some Undecidable Problems Involving Elementary Functions of a Real Variable". Journal...

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O-minimal theory
Kamis, 2026-05-07 21:20:28

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Geoffrey K. Pullum
Kamis, 2026-07-02 19:15:07

Geoffrey K. (2000) "Scooping the loop snooper: An elementary proof of the undecidability of the halting problem". Mathematics Magazine 73.4 (October 2000), 319–320...

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Rewriting
Jumat, 2026-08-14 21:29:01

consisting of one rule with a linear left-hand side is undecidable. Termination is also undecidable for systems using only unary function symbols; however...

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Saul Kripke
Jumat, 2026-08-14 12:25:46

combined logic S4.1 (in fact, even K4.1) is canonical. In general, it is undecidable whether a given axiom is canonical. We know a nice sufficient condition:...

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Logical framework
Selasa, 2026-03-24 14:12:42

of Edinburgh, 1992. LFCS report ECS-LFCS-92-227. Gilles Dowek. The undecidability of typability in the lambda-pi-calculus. In M. Bezem, J.F. Groote (Eds...

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S2S (mathematics)
Kamis, 2026-06-18 09:01:10

existential (i.e. Σ 1 1 {\displaystyle {\Sigma }_{1}^{1}} ) MSO theory is undecidable if we allow predicates on both vertices and edges. Thus, in a sense,...

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Weak interpretability
Kamis, 2026-01-22 21:31:45

Giorgi Japaridze in 1992. Interpretability logic Tarski, Alfred (1953), Undecidable theories, Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics, Amsterdam:...

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Second-order cybernetics
Selasa, 2026-06-02 16:21:57

doi:10.1007/978-4-431-55639-8 Scholte, T. (2019). "Heuristics for the Undecidable." She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 5(4), 379–382...

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Infinite-valued logic
Jumat, 2025-06-27 06:16:35

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Brouwer–Hilbert controversy
Jumat, 2026-07-10 08:15:49

ISBN 0-7923-6151-2, pages 221–230. Martin Davis, 1965. The Undecidable: Basic Papers on Undecidable Propositions, Unsolvable Problems, and Computable Functions...

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Von Neumann universe
Jumat, 2026-05-29 03:10:10

10, no. 4 (2004). Accessed 21 August 2023. See article On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems and Gödel 1931...

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Relationship between chemistry and physics
Selasa, 2026-07-28 19:30:20

and God", in Driessen, Alfred; Suarez, Antoine (eds.), Mathematical Undecidability, Quantum Nonlocality and the Question of the Existence of God, Dordrecht:...

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Logical disjunction
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 00:31:00

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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List of incomplete proofs
Jumat, 2026-08-14 08:46:04

Goldfarb showed that validity of formulas from the larger class was in fact undecidable. Grunwald–Wang theorem. Wilhelm Grunwald published an incorrect proof...

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Intuitionistic type theory
Minggu, 2026-05-03 04:22:41

equality, which requires proof. As a consequence type checking becomes undecidable in extensional type theory because programs in the theory might not terminate...

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Surjective function
Senin, 2026-06-22 12:08:41

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Uncountable set
Selasa, 2026-08-04 07:18:04

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Equality (mathematics)
Selasa, 2026-07-28 18:37:49

the equality of two real numbers given by an expression is known to be undecidable (specifically, real numbers defined by expressions involving the integers...

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Yury Yershov
Selasa, 2024-10-29 23:04:01

field of p-adic numbers (independently proven by J. Ax and S. Kochen), undecidability of the elementary theory of finite symmetric groups, decidability of...

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Unreachable code
Kamis, 2026-07-23 17:21:06

is unreachable is at least as hard as the halting problem and hence undecidable Debray, Saumya K.; Evans, William; Muth, Robert; De Sutter, Bjorn (1...

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Agrippa the Skeptic
Selasa, 2026-05-12 23:43:33

of proofs. According to the mode deriving from dispute, we find that undecidable dissension about the matter proposed has come about both in ordinary...

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Axiom of choice
Kamis, 2026-08-13 02:29:36

equivalent to the axiom of choice (that is, their truth values in ZF, while undecidable, are the same as that of AC). The most important among them are Zorn's...

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Limit (mathematics)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 00:49:49

modulus of convergence is undecidable. In recursion theory, the limit lemma proves that it is possible to encode undecidable problems using limits. There...

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Logic of graphs
Selasa, 2026-04-21 01:04:24

Parys (2014) writes that this undecidability result is well known, and attributes it to Trahtenbrot (1950) on the undecidability of first-order satisfiability...

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Combinatorics on words
Minggu, 2026-03-08 10:44:55

that this problem is undecidable; consequently, any word problem that has a reduction from this basic problem is likewise undecidable. Combinatorics on words...

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LL grammar
Kamis, 2023-12-07 17:49:43

LL(k) and LR(k) parsers, the problem of generating an LLR/LRR parser is undecidable unless one has constructed a regular partition upfront. But even the...

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P (complexity)
Minggu, 2026-01-18 10:36:55

some impractical problems, including some undecidable problems such as the unary version of any undecidable problem. In 1999, Jin-Yi Cai and D. Sivakumar...

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Register machine
Rabu, 2026-06-24 21:31:56

included in The Undecidable. The mathematics of Church, Rosser, and Kleene that appear as reprints of original papers in The Undecidable is carried further...

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Countable set
Selasa, 2026-08-04 07:18:57

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Weakly o-minimal structure
Senin, 2023-01-09 07:26:23

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Vadalog
Minggu, 2026-03-29 01:02:54

answer to the program. If arbitrary propagation is allowed, reasoning is undecidable and the program will be infinite. Warded Datalog± overcomes this issue...

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Self-verifying theories
Rabu, 2026-01-07 02:49:37

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Recursive language
Senin, 2025-07-14 15:12:28

Turing machine running an algorithm that terminates on all inputs. An undecidable problem is a problem that is not decidable. As noted above, every context-sensitive...

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Operationalization
Senin, 2026-06-08 21:29:29

15-32). Svozil, K. (1990). The quantum coin toss-testing microphysical undecidability. Physics Letters A, 143(9), 433-437. Downing, K. L. (1992). A qualitative...

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Correctness (computer science)
Minggu, 2026-05-24 20:25:05

(termination proof) can never be fully automated, since the halting problem is undecidable. For example, successively searching through the positive integers (1...

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Codomain
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 06:06:50

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Alasdair Urquhart
Senin, 2026-06-01 23:29:11

non-classical logic. Amongst his most notable accomplishments is the proof of undecidability of the relevance logic R. He published numerous scientific papers in...

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Contradiction
Selasa, 2026-04-14 22:09:17

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Lila Kari
Jumat, 2026-01-30 21:52:12

theoretical issues relevant to DNA biomollecules such nondeterminism and undecidability in self-assembly. Since the early 2000s, she has focused on the study...

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Pyotr Novikov
Jumat, 2026-01-02 16:58:48

respectively. He was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1957 for proving the undecidability of the word problem in groups. He received the Order of Lenin in 1961...

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William Boone (mathematician)
Senin, 2026-03-09 02:54:24

exists a finitely presented group G such that the word problem for G is undecidable. A different proof was obtained by Boone in a paper published in 1958...

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Signature (logic)
Jumat, 2025-10-31 07:34:54

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Turing machine equivalents
Minggu, 2025-12-28 19:28:10

South, East, West }. Single-tape, multi-head Turing machine: In an undecidability proof of the "problem of tag", Minsky and Shepherdson and Sturgis described...

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Validity (logic)
Jumat, 2026-07-03 02:47:29

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Boolean function
Senin, 2026-06-22 23:48:52

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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THOG problem
Minggu, 2026-05-03 16:35:19

THOG. For each of the other symbols, are they a) definitely a THOG, b) undecidable, or c) definitely not a THOG?" Presented in this form, the task is quite...

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Mostowski collapse lemma
Minggu, 2026-01-18 22:43:26

Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-44085-7 Mostowski, Andrzej (1949), "An undecidable arithmetical statement" (PDF), Fundamenta Mathematicae, 36 (1), Institute...

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List of impossible puzzles
Senin, 2025-03-03 07:31:50

Product Puzzle", which is not impossible -gry, a word puzzle List of undecidable problems, no algorithm can exist to answer a yes–no question about the...

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Regular cardinal
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 20:03:06

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Radhia Cousot
Rabu, 2026-07-22 19:44:13

away all semantic properties irrelevant to the reasoning. Because of undecidability, sound, fully automated, and always terminating reasonings on/proofs/static...

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Frank P. Ramsey
Kamis, 2026-07-02 02:10:51

problem for first-order logic is unsolvable and that first-order logic is undecidable (see Church's theorem). A great amount of later work in mathematics was...

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Strength (mathematical logic)
Selasa, 2025-06-10 03:08:22

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Analytic philosophy
Senin, 2026-08-10 10:58:51

121–123. doi:10.1093/analys/23.6.121. Gödel, Kurt (1931). On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems. Basic Books...

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Gödel's completeness theorem
Jumat, 2026-02-06 16:01:03

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Advice (complexity)
Minggu, 2025-09-21 02:56:47

(Adleman's theorem). It also contains some undecidable problems, such as the unary version of every undecidable problem, including the halting problem. Because...

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W. Hugh Woodin
Jumat, 2026-07-31 10:12:52

which suggested an argument that the continuum hypothesis is either undecidable or false in the sense of mathematical platonism. Woodin criticizes this...

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NP (complexity)
Kamis, 2026-08-13 09:40:18

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Algorithm characterizations
Senin, 2026-05-04 13:20:51

provable formulas . . . ." (p. 72 in Martin Davis ed. The Undecidable: "Postscriptum" to "On Undecidable Propositions of Formal Mathematical Systems" appearing...

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Amalgamation property
Kamis, 2026-06-11 14:56:48

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Law of excluded middle
Kamis, 2026-08-06 12:32:35

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Friedberg–Muchnik theorem
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 04:14:43

contradicting the original assumption that C {\displaystyle C} is enumerable but undecidable. We also have Sacks's splitting theorem—Given an enumerable but not computable...

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Zorn's lemma
Rabu, 2026-07-15 20:39:00

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Empty set
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 00:23:14

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Lemma (mathematics)
Senin, 2026-05-18 13:05:21

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Quentin Meillassoux
Sabtu, 2026-06-13 06:41:41

(Casino Real), ed. Robin Mackay (Urbanomic, 2014): 813–846. "Decision and Undecidability of the Event in Being and Event I and II," trans. Alyosha Edlebi, Parrhesia...

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Map (mathematics)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 18:00:06

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Bernard Stiegler
Senin, 2026-06-29 18:48:39

and Libidinal Dis-economy". Jared Russell, "Stiegler and the Clinic," Undecidable Unconscious: A Journal of Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis 2 (2015):...

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Kaplansky's conjectures
Kamis, 2025-12-11 21:56:31

conjecture is true. Kaplansky's conjecture is thus an example of a statement undecidable in ZFC. In 1953, Kaplansky proposed the conjecture that finite values...

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Theories of truth
Selasa, 2026-07-14 05:01:59

to the construction of specific Diophantine equations for which it is undecidable whether they have a solution, or even if they do, whether they have a...

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Reiky de Valk
Minggu, 2026-06-07 04:42:29

Verleden Tijd Florian Short film De Overkammer Archie Short film 2022 #No_Filter Tyler 2025 Undecidable (posthumous release) Arturo Reyes Short film...

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Cantor's diagonal argument
Jumat, 2026-08-07 22:53:45

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Tarski's axioms
Selasa, 2026-02-03 11:16:15

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Material conditional
Jumat, 2026-08-14 03:05:19

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Substitution (logic)
Senin, 2026-02-09 02:59:32

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Metalanguage
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 07:57:33

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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T2 Temporal Prover
Selasa, 2026-02-24 05:43:16

the halting problem for particular cases, since the general problem is undecidable. It provides a solution which is sound, meaning that when it states that...

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DatalogZ
Rabu, 2025-10-29 16:08:26

are based on the model-theoretic (Herbrand) semantics of Datalog. The undecidability of entailment of DatalogZ motivates the definition of limit DatalogZ...

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Setoid
Rabu, 2025-09-17 19:33:46

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Sentence (mathematical logic)
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 08:16:53

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics
Jumat, 2025-07-25 17:55:10

economics entails Diophantine formalisms. These come with natural undecidabilities and uncomputabilities. In the face of this, [the] conjecture [is] that...

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Ethics of belief
Selasa, 2026-07-07 19:04:59

compelling evidence one way or another (i.e., the issue is "intellectually undecidable") both options must be "live hypotheses" for the relevant chooser (i...

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Mathematical logic
Kamis, 2026-07-09 03:46:57

dominant logic used by mathematicians. In 1931, Gödel published On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems, which proved...

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Cantor's theorem
Jumat, 2026-05-29 18:08:03

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Diagram (mathematical logic)
Kamis, 2025-12-18 14:47:43

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Randomized algorithm
Rabu, 2026-08-12 03:48:55

concentration-based probability for which reaction will occur next) is undecidable. More specifically, a limited Turing machine can be simulated with arbitrarily...

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PP (complexity)
Jumat, 2026-02-13 02:20:43

given a description of a polynomial-time probabilistic machine, it is undecidable in general to determine if it recognizes a language in BPP. PP has natural...

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Mathematical object
Kamis, 2026-06-04 03:48:51

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Logical truth
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 11:01:11

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Joint embedding property
Minggu, 2022-01-16 02:21:32

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Constructive set theory
Kamis, 2026-07-23 04:04:49

convergence. A famous source of computable undecidability - and in turn also of a broad range of undecidable propositions - is the predicate expressing...

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Complement (set theory)
Jumat, 2026-05-22 22:28:50

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Ray tracing (graphics)
Jumat, 2026-08-14 10:24:08

inequalities is undecidable. Ray tracing in 3-D optical systems with a finite set of rectangular reflective or refractive objects is undecidable. Ray tracing...

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Kripke semantics
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 20:47:18

combined logic S4.1 (in fact, even K4.1) is canonical. In general, it is undecidable whether a given axiom is canonical. We know a nice sufficient condition:...

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Propositional variable
Minggu, 2026-02-08 20:25:00

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Tarski's undefinability theorem
Senin, 2026-04-27 10:20:55

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Abelian sandpile model
Rabu, 2026-07-15 12:08:37

Cairns, Hannah (2018). "Some Halting Problems for Abelian Sandpiles Are Undecidable in Dimension Three". SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. 32 (4): 2636–2666...

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Quantifier rank
Minggu, 2025-11-23 06:16:48

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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History of computing hardware
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 20:23:26

Entscheidungsproblem by first showing that the halting problem for Turing machines is undecidable: in general, it is not possible to decide algorithmically whether a given...

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Set (mathematics)
Selasa, 2026-07-21 00:34:18

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Hindley–Milner type system
Minggu, 2026-03-22 09:41:29

type inference algorithms, which often came out to be NP-hard, if not undecidable with respect to termination. Thus the HM performs as well as the best...

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Extender (set theory)
Senin, 2024-09-02 23:52:50

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Elementary function
Selasa, 2026-06-30 07:00:32

integration in terms of elementary functions Richardson's theorem: Undecidability of inequalities of real numbers formed out of a class of elementary...

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Lindström's theorem
Kamis, 2025-12-04 19:15:37

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Semantic theory of truth
Selasa, 2026-02-24 10:37:34

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Evolutionary computation
Rabu, 2026-05-27 23:06:23

of evolutionary computation. This confirms the initial result about undecidability of natural evolution and evolutionary algorithms and processes. Evolutionary...

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There are unknown unknowns
Rabu, 2026-08-12 03:36:07

window Knightian uncertainty Outside Context Problem Russell's teapot Undecidable problem Wild card (foresight) Tacit knowledge Meno's paradox Kenneth...

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Atomic formula
Minggu, 2025-10-19 00:09:49

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Finite set
Kamis, 2026-01-29 05:06:13

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Naimark's problem
Kamis, 2024-01-25 13:41:10

{\displaystyle {\mathsf {ZFC}}} remains unknown. List of statements undecidable in Z F C {\displaystyle {\mathsf {ZFC}}} Gelfand–Naimark theorem Akemann...

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Cardinal number
Selasa, 2026-07-21 02:58:40

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Schröder–Bernstein theorem
Rabu, 2026-05-20 23:09:01

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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T-schema
Rabu, 2025-01-01 00:22:36

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Aronszajn tree
Selasa, 2025-12-02 10:01:31

The existence of ℵ 2 {\displaystyle \aleph _{2}} -Aronszajn trees is undecidable in ZFC: more precisely, the continuum hypothesis implies the existence...

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Axiom of global choice
Jumat, 2026-02-27 14:05:45

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Self-hosting (compilers)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 10:17:50

theoretical computer science, such as the proof that the halting problem is undecidable. Ken Thompson started development on Unix in 1968 by writing and compiling...

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Nonelementary integral
Selasa, 2026-04-28 09:02:35

integration in terms of elementary functions Richardson's theorem – Undecidability of equality of real numbers Symbolic integration – Computation of an...

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Warren Goldfarb
Kamis, 2026-07-23 07:40:36

Ellis and Daniel Guevara, editors (Oxford University Press, 2012). "The Undecidability of the Second-Order Unification Problem" (PDF). Theoretical Computer...

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Kleene Award
Kamis, 2024-09-19 00:08:58

Bounded Degree" 2021 Moritz Lichter and Jamie Tucker-Foltz 2022 Elena Di Lavore and Yoàv Montacute 2024 Søren Brinck Knudstorp "Relevant S is Undecidable"...

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Infinite set
Minggu, 2025-09-28 17:06:10

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Non-standard model
Minggu, 2025-04-27 23:23:46

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Syllogism
Minggu, 2026-08-09 18:48:12

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Typed lambda calculus
Rabu, 2025-10-22 21:55:22

ISSN 0956-7968. since the halting problem for the latter class was proven to be undecidable "What to know before debating type systems | Ovid [blogs.perl.org]"....

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Science Without Numbers
Senin, 2026-06-08 07:19:41

theory. Furthermore, under Field's nominalization, statements that are undecidable in standard set theory like the continuum hypothesis become statable...

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Finitary relation
Jumat, 2026-07-24 19:26:16

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Steve Omohundro
Rabu, 2026-07-22 08:48:07

automata. The asymptotic behavior of these PDEs is therefore logically undecidable. With John David Crawford he showed that the orbits of three-dimensional...

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Logical constant
Selasa, 2026-07-21 03:58:45

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Sergei Adian
Rabu, 2026-08-12 11:41:26

had managed to prove the undecidability of practically all non-trivial invariant group properties, including the undecidability of being isomorphic to a...

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Newton da Costa
Minggu, 2026-06-21 11:12:52

Intelligence in Medicine 1989; 1: 167–174. N.C.A. da Costa (with F.A. Doria), Undecidability and incompleteness in classical mechanics, International J. Theoretical...

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EXPTIME
Senin, 2025-08-25 22:00:42

the time hierarchy theorem. In computability theory, one of the basic undecidable problems is the halting problem: deciding whether a deterministic Turing...

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Interpretation (logic)
Jumat, 2026-02-06 18:06:29

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Topological manifold
Kamis, 2026-06-25 17:07:14

the word problem in group theory, which is known to be algorithmically undecidable. In fact, there is no algorithm for deciding whether a given manifold...

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Truth table
Rabu, 2026-06-17 01:02:09

enumerable Computable function Computable set Decision problem decidable undecidable P NP P versus NP problem Kolmogorov complexity Lambda calculus Primitive...

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Tibetans in India
Selasa, 2026-06-23 15:59:22

Oha, Obododimma (2008-01-01), "Language, Exile and the Burden of Undecidable Citizenship: Tenzin Tsundue and the Tibetan Experience", Exile Cultures...

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Universal set
Senin, 2026-08-03 17:04:27

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Reverse mathematics
Jumat, 2026-08-14 01:32:01

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Conjunctive query
Senin, 2025-12-01 09:48:58

conjunctive query) is known as the Datalog boundedness problem and is undecidable. Extensions of conjunctive queries capturing more expressive power include:...

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Hilbert's tenth problem
Rabu, 2026-08-12 14:19:37

answering that question. In modern terms, Hilbert's tenth problem is an undecidable problem. In a Diophantine equation, there are two kinds of variables:...

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Affine logic
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 17:20:50

propositional linear logic with multiplicatives, additives, and exponentials) is undecidable, full affine logic is decidable. Affine logic forms the foundation of...

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Mathematical problem
Kamis, 2025-09-11 04:52:14

quintic equation algebraically. Also provably unsolvable are so-called undecidable problems, such as the halting problem for Turing machines. Some well-known...

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Large cardinal
Jumat, 2026-08-14 13:27:23

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Termination analysis
Rabu, 2026-04-08 21:46:55

tasked with the inspection. The theoretical reason for this is the undecidability of the halting problem: there cannot exist some algorithm which determines...

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Cartesian product
Kamis, 2026-08-06 03:45:48

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Abstract logic
Rabu, 2024-08-28 16:13:49

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Real closed field
Kamis, 2026-07-02 18:03:53

sharply with Gödel's and Turing's results about the incompleteness and undecidability of the first-order theory of the natural numbers (using addition and...

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Proof by infinite descent
Jumat, 2026-08-14 14:53:13

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F-logic
Rabu, 2025-12-31 02:21:54

in contrast to DL's open world assumption. Also, F-logic is generally undecidable,[citation needed] whereas the SHOIN description logic that Web Ontology...

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Francisco Dória
Kamis, 2026-06-04 05:47:30

"Deciding the undecidable," Nature vol. 352, pp. 664–665 (1991). I. Stewart, From Here to Infinity, Oxford (1996). Comments on the undecidability proof for...

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Natural deduction
Minggu, 2026-08-09 03:42:17

earlier sections was decidable, adding the quantifiers makes the logic undecidable. So far, the quantified extensions are first-order: they distinguish...

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Type (model theory)
Jumat, 2026-05-01 13:35:41

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