Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem

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No matter how many articles I read on this subject I cannot comprehend how it proves what it proves. I do well with words and rhetorics, philosophy and science – but as soon as you add numbers my mind goes blank. Not very helpful when those fields often rely on equations and models for explanations and proof. I can somewhat understand equations if explained in a simple or cohesive way – but if at all possible analogies or just word-centric explanations would be very helpful.

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Math can result in an “This statement is false” situation.
It is obviously true, but that would mean it is false. Which would mean it is true.
That is, you cannot prove everything.
This is how I understand the theorem.

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