Has anybody read each and every line of the englishEnglish translation of the 1931 Godel'sGödel paper (from page 40 to the end) ?
I tried once, but the notation is so far from the modern notation, and the setup is so strange (use of abitrary orderarbitrary-order formulas) that I found it quite difficult to follow.
If somebody managed to get to the end, I have the following question for him (her).
- Is this proof purely syntactic?
- Does it avoid the completeness theorem?
The proofs I read all use the completeness theorem at some point, so I wonder what a purely syntactic proof would be like, if it happens to exist.