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A theory T is defined to be decidable if there is an effective procedure of deciding whether any given sentence s belongs to T, (where an 'effective procedure' is generally defined to be a finitely-specifiable sequence of algorithmic steps).

Archive 2009-06-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

It feels a lot like a finitely repeated prisoner's dilemma: if everyone's going to fink in the end, then we can't do any better at the beginning but to fink.

A Waste of Talent 2009

Similarly, there are economic theories predicting that firms will set price equal to average cost, that individuals will discount future payments at the rate of interest, and that no one will cooperate in a finitely-repeated Prisoners 'Dilemma game.

The Marginal Myth, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of cards can be arranged in only finitely many different orders.

If You Don't Like This Universe 2011

A theory T is defined to be decidable if there is an effective procedure of deciding whether any given sentence s belongs to T, (where an 'effective procedure' is generally defined to be a finitely-specifiable sequence of algorithmic steps).

Theories of Everything and Godel's theorem Gordon McCabe 2009

But a key fact is that the roots are always countable — and, more importantly, there can only be finitely many roots in a given closed and bounded region.

Wolfram Blog : Mathematica 7, Johannes Kepler, and Transcendental Roots 2008

"3-D works best in a very claustrophobic environment where you really feel finitely that the walls are only a few feet away," Cameron explains.

Cameron on Producing His Underwater 3D Drama 'Sanctum' « FirstShowing.net 2010

An atheist could still try to deny the existence of the idea of God on the grounds that there are only finitely many natural laws, i.e. ideas, in the platonic world, but this can be refuted by using the Goedel theorem: A theory of everything should explain mathematics, and by Goedel´s theorem there is no closed mathematical system which contains the arithmetics.

Post-Christian America Sean 2009

They make mistakes, and they're finitely human instead of being superheroes.

Holly Robinson: Our TV Sleuths Need to Take a Page from British Mysteries 2009

We observe our universe to be such, if current cosmological theory is right, as to have had a beginning finitely long ago, followed by an era in which no part of it could have sustained life.

Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007