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by qnleigh 79 days ago
Yeah rich is a vague word here. Really we're trying to say 'if a set of axioms can express provability, and can get a sentence to refer to itself, then it can state the liar sentence. And once it can state the liar sentence, then the rest of Gödel's argument follows.' There's no circularity.