stackyFACTSIn a devastating blow to logical purists, the incompleteness theorems proved that inside any complex mathematical system, there will perpetually be true statements that absolutely cannot be verified by the system's own rules. Math is fundamentally and inescapably flawed, built on axioms we just blindly agree to trust.
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