[FOM] Possible worlds

[joeshipman@aol.com]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: tchow at alum.mit.edu
>
>The suggestion that some have made, of imposing some kind of limit on 
the
>length or intricacy of the deductive consequences allowed (where the 
limit
>depends on context, I suppose), also sounds promising.
>
>Tim

The problem with this is that, although Wiles's proof is extremely 
complicated, there are many other theorems which were open questions 
for a long time, where the eventual proof was short (though very hard 
to find, for the same reasons NP seems to be bigger than P), and for 
these theorems introducing a notion of feasibility doesn't help.

-- JS
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