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Full Idea
Eventually Gödel ...expressed the hope that there might be a generalised completeness theorem according to which there are no absolutely undecidable sentences.
Gist of Idea
Gödel eventually hoped for a generalised completeness theorem leaving nothing undecidable
Source
report of Kurt Gödel (works [1930]) by Peter Koellner - On the Question of Absolute Undecidability Intro
Book Ref
-: 'Philosophia Mathematica' [-], p.2
A Reaction
This comes as a bit of a shock to those who associate him with the inherent undecidability of reality.
Related Idea
Idea 17883 Gödel's Theorems did not refute the claim that all good mathematical questions have answers [Gödel, by Koellner]
| 17892 | For clear questions posed by reason, reason can also find clear answers [Gödel] |
| 9188 | Gödel proved that first-order logic is complete, and second-order logic incomplete [Gödel, by Dummett] |
| 10620 | Originally truth was viewed with total suspicion, and only demonstrability was accepted [Gödel] |
| 17883 | Gödel's Theorems did not refute the claim that all good mathematical questions have answers [Gödel, by Koellner] |
| 17885 | Gödel eventually hoped for a generalised completeness theorem leaving nothing undecidable [Gödel, by Koellner] |
| 10614 | The real reason for Incompleteness in arithmetic is inability to define truth in a language [Gödel] |