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:wojak-nooo: Kronecker and Wittgenstein crying: Noooo! you can’t use a diagonalization argument to prove by contradiction.

Cantor, Gödel and Turing: haha, well look at that, the diagonal can’t exist. QED

Whoops: Hilbert actually liked Cantor’s proof.

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