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Comment by QuadmasterXLII

3 months ago

Not quite. There is some N for which you can’t prove BB(N) is correct for any existing proof assistant, but you can prove that BB(N) by writing a new proof assistant. However, the problem “check if new sufficiently powerful proof assistant is correct” is not decidable.

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