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In a sense, no; but it leads us into some difficult mathematical considerations that cannot be gone into in detail here. The above procedure was discussed by Alan Turing in a paper4 in 1939. In fact, very remarkably, any true (but just universally quantified) proposition in arithmetic can be obtained by a repeated ‘Gödelization’ procedure of this type! See Feferman (1988).
The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Oxford Landmark Science)
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