24.118 Paradox & Infinity, Spring 2013

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Rayo, Agustín; Evans, Owain R.
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Paradox & Infinity
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Abstract
This course explores different kinds of infinity; the paradoxes of set theory; the reduction of arithmetic to logic; formal systems; paradoxes involving the concept of truth; Gödel’s incompleteness theorems; the nonformalizable nature of mathematical truth; and Turing machines.
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2013-06
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123297
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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24.118-Spring2013
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24.118
IMSCP-MD5-de73fba920a38a33b22f3690362e96f3
Keywords
time travel, free will, Newcomb, Newcomb's Paradox, probability, Zeno, Zeno's Paradox, infinity, axiom of choice, computability, Godel, Godel's theorem, prisoner's dilemma, higher infinite
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