incompleteness

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Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem says that if a system is sufficiently complicated, it cannot be both consistent and complete.

From Slate • Aug. 6, 2018

It starts off with some witty gags and ends up with a discussion of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2017

"Incompleteness" may be given an emphasis in which it imports conjecture and hypothesis—almost anything, in fact, but blindness.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

Incompleteness and slowness of intellectual operations are highly characteristic features of the partial stupors and of the incubation period of the more profound reactions.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by MacCurdy, John T. (John Thompson)

Incompleteness may be suggested by a negative statement or its equivalent: Nót from the grand old másters, Nót from the bárds sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time.

From The Ontario High School Reader by Marty, A.E.