On 10/28/06 6:26 PM, "Martin Davis"
<davism-+I05ep9qJbk3uPMLIKxrzw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Friedman Harvey wrote:
>
>> ***Under any reasonable measure of complexity of sentences in the language
>> of PA, any sentence or scheme in the language of PA of modest complexity is
>> either provable or refutable in PA.***
>
> This assertion surprises me. I for one don't believe it, and see no compelling
> evidence for it considering the large number of such sentences that have
> remained unresolved despite great interest.
>
Not a single one of them is of reasonable complexity as sentences or schemes
in the primitive language of PA with 0,S,+,x.
I hope to find the time to work on this.
Harvey
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