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Gödel: incompleteness

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Reference score450,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Establishes limits to formal provability in sufficiently strong, effectively axiomatized systems of arithmetic.

Scientific scope

The original incompleteness results for the specified formal arithmetic systems and assumptions.

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Original sources and institutional historical accounts support the stated contribution. The reading boundary is recorded at each source; this assessment is not an independent scientific verification.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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