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   Tristan Wibberley to Richard Damon   
   =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_Why_do_people_ignore_how   
   11 Jan 26 14:49:46   
   
   XPost: sci.math   
   From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk   
      
   On 11/01/2026 12:37, Richard Damon wrote:   
   > The transformed statement is: This sentence is true if and only if it is   
   > not provable.   
   >   
   > That transformed statement is NOT a contradiction, and in addition to   
   > possibly not being a truth-bearer, could also be a True statement, that   
   > just was not provable.   
      
      
   How does he make it that "true" doesn't mean the same as "provable"   
   without also introducing a contradiction and how can it be shown that a   
   contradiction is not introduced by that method?   
      
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