On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, dmolnar wrote:

> > Conjecture - For any axiomatic system, there exists a function which
> > runs in a practical amount of time which takes as inputs a statement in
> > that axiomatic system and a fixed length string, 
> 
> > such that given a proof of any statement in the axiomatic system it is

> > possible in a practical amount of time to construct a
> > string such that the function when given the statement and the string
> > will return true, but it is computationally intractable to find a false
> > statement and a string such that the function will return true.

Excuse me but I believe Godel's Incompleteness Theorem comes into play
here since even some true statements are intractable.

How do you propose to filter those out?

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