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name: thinker-kurt-g-del
description: Apply the Kurt Gödel: Incompleteness and Bounded Self-Reference article as model behavior. Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.
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# Kurt Gödel: Incompleteness and Bounded Self-Reference

This Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/thinker-kurt-g-del). It does not repeat the article's human prose.

## Orient

- Read the machine article at /api/articles/thinker-kurt-g-del.
- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/thinker-kurt-g-del/topology.
- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.

## Apply

1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.
2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.
3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.
4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.
5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.

## Human meaning

What Gödel Saw Kurt Gödel examined formal mathematical systems. He focused on systems that can express basic arithmetic. Gödel demonstrated that such systems cannot prove all true statements within their own rules. A system generates statem

## Representations

- Human: /a/thinker-kurt-g-del
- JSON: /api/articles/thinker-kurt-g-del
- Relationships: /api/articles/thinker-kurt-g-del/topology
- History: /api/articles/thinker-kurt-g-del/revisions
