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Can proof by contradiction work without the law of excluded middle?

Gödel's incompleteness is dragged in for a reason that I can discern. Gödel's incompleteness provides a sentence $G$ such that neither $G$ nor $\lnot G$ is provable. … So how is Gödel's incompleteness relevant here? P.S. I apologize for the previous version of the supplemental which was rude. …
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Did Wheeler really believe that physics was undecidable?

The inference "the universe would be completely computable, so no undecidable/uncomputable things could exist" is invalid. In the effective topos, where everything is computable, there are many undec …
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Why decision problem definition ignores Gödel incompleteness theorem?

There is an important class of decisions problems which have no solutions because of Gödel's incompleteness theorem. …
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Does the first incompleteness theorem imply that any Turing complete programming language mu...

Gödel's incompleteness theorems do not apply to them, because the formal systems do not even incorporate first-order logic. …
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