Re: What is "true" in mathematics

From: Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensilta@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:54:21 GMT

On 2008-03-28, in sci.logic, Frederick Williams wrote:

Convention.

So the matter of some algorithm terminating on all inputs, say, is a
matter of "convention"? Just what does this mean?

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