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Not that easy, because it only applies to truths represented in a system of symbols. Very abstract stuff, and in fact, trivial to overcome – use two sets of symbols.

The theorem was important at the time because it ended one pursuit (one single-level system to rule them all), but its actual impact on anything of importance in the wider world of, well, anything, is vastly overrated.



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