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Regarding Gentzen's note regarding 'Godel-points' (i.e., "Where is the Godel-point hiding?")
Consider the following note written by Gerhard Gentzen in early 1932, on the onset of his work on a consistency proof for arithmetic:
The axioms of arithmetic are obviously correct, and the ...