[FOM] Simple historical question

[Richard Heck]

Roger Bishop Jones wrote:
> However, a vigorous defence was mounted.
> If A is moderated to "arithmetic truth is not arithmetically definable", 
> then the argument is sound, and can be generalised to give stronger 
> negative results than that arithmetic truth is not recursively enumerable.
>   
I heard Quine lecture on this very point at BU in, oh, it must have been 
1994 or so. His point was precisely that Tarski's theorem, stated in 
that form, is stronger than G"odel's.

Richard

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