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    Challenges→The incompleteness of mathematics is a direct consequence of the expressive power of natural numbers to encode information.

    If incompleteness were a direct consequence of expressive power, then enriching a system's expressiveness should monotonically increase incompleteness, but adding true axioms can resolve specific Gödel sentences without expanding coding capacity.

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    Key Terms

    Coding capacity(formal systems and logic)
    The ability of a system to represent or encode information and relationships between different elements.
    Gödel sentences(mathematical logic)
    Special mathematical statements named after logician Kurt Gödel that are true but cannot be proven within their own system—the classic example of incompleteness.
    Monotonically increase(mathematical relationships)
    To go up consistently in one direction without ever decreasing—like climbing a hill where you never go backward.
    axioms(Stumpf, 1891)
    Propositions that we assume to be true and necessary, originating in the content of judgments.
    expressive power(evaluation criterion for diagrammatic logic systems)

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    The range of logical statements or relationships a diagrammatic system is capable of representing
    incompleteness(Philosophy of mathematics / formal systems)
    The property of a formal system whereby there exist true statements within the system that cannot be proven by the system itself.

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