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But you've simply taken one of the many definitions of "be" and applied it where it doesn't belong. Another definition from Merriam-Webster is "to have a specified qualification or characterization". So there's nothing weird about saying "He is dead".

Resha Caner wrote:

Steve_Reilly wrote: Regardless, I discussed this on another forum and someone convinced me there is a flaw in the argument.

Do you mean the argument in the article? What was the flaw?

“ n 1931 the Austrian logician Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) proved his Incompleteness Theorem, which says that within any rationally-definable logical system, statements exist that are neither provable nor disprovable using the axioms of that system.” Not so. Gödel proved that within any formal axiomatic ...