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by mmarx
3381 days ago
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Decidability (as a property of decision problems like the halting problem) is a different notion, though: In the context of incompleteness, an undecidable statement is a statement that cannot be proven or disproved in that system.
Decidability of a decision problem is concerned with an effective procedure that, for every instance of the problem, answers yes/no.
Specifically for a logical theory, decidability of this theory is deciding for any formula in the same language whether it follows from the theory as a logical consequence. Neither incompleteness nor undecidability imply the other[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidability_(logic)#Relations... |
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In fact, when Gödel saw Turing's work and was convinced that Turing indeed captured the general notion of a formal system, he said that the incompleteness theorem was finally satisfactorily proven for all formal systems.
[1]: See http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=710