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G\"{o}del's incompleteness theorem and the Anti-Mechanist Argument: revisited

Logic 2025-10-02 v2

Abstract

This is a paper for a special issue of the journal "Studia Semiotyczne" devoted to Stanislaw Krajewski's paper [30]. This paper gives some supplementary notes to Krajewski's [30] on the Anti-Mechanist Arguments based on G\"{o}del's incompleteness theorem. In Section 3, we give some additional explanations to Section 4-6 in Krajewski's [30] and classify some misunderstandings of G\"{o}del's incompleteness theorem related to Anti-Mechanist Arguments. In Section 4 and 5, we give a more detailed discussion of G\"{o}del's Disjunctive Thesis, G\"{o}del's Undemonstrability of Consistency Thesis and the definability of natural numbers as in Section 7-8 in Krajewski's [30], describing how recent advances bear on these issues.

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@article{arxiv.1902.05902,
  title  = {G\"{o}del's incompleteness theorem and the Anti-Mechanist Argument: revisited},
  author = {Yong Cheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.05902},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

20 pages. Accepted and to appear in a special issue of Studia Semiotyczne devoted to the Anti-Mechanist Arguments based on G\"{o}del's incompleteness theorem