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    Challenges→The justification for classifying specific problems as undecidable can be no stronger than the confidence placed in Church's Thesis.

    A claim whose negation would require positing an effective procedure that resists all known formal characterization bears a burden of proof that skeptical invocation of 'it's just a thesis' does not discharge.

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    Effective procedure(as the practical outcome being discussed)
    A clear set of instructions that actually works in practice to solve a problem or accomplish a task.
    Formal characterization(the other type of way to describe validity)
    A precise, rule-based description of something using strict logical symbols and mathematical notation.
    burden of proof(Used to frame the default presumption against coercive institutional structures.)
    The obligation on institutions employing authority, hierarchy, or domination to demonstrate that such arrangements are justified given existing conditions.
    negation(Standard truth conditions for logical negation, used as the basis for arguments against dialetheism)
    ¬A is true if and only if A is not true

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