McClatchy goes on to try and level a damning critique, which amounts to a lot of handwaving about things we already know.
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Handwaving
//ˈhandweɪvɪŋ//
Synonyms for "handwaving" (1 found)
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4 translations across 4 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَلْوِيح بِالْيَد adj (waving the hands)
Finnish
1 entries- käsiään heiluttava adj (waving the hands)
Norwegian
1 entries- gestikulerende adj (waving the hands)
Polish
1 entries- machanie rękoma adj (waving the hands)
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If one looks today at the logical literature, one finds that there is a great deal of handwaving going on of the same kind as that used by Gödel in his paper. That is, informal arguments are given to show that a formalization of a certain statement is formally provable in a certain theory.
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