It is a virtue of FS that it is thoroughly classical: It is formulated in classical logic; if a sentence is provably true in FS, then the sentence itself is provable in FS; and conversely if a sentence is provable, then it is also provably true.
Not only has Alessandro Nencini, the presiding judge of the Florence appeals court, apparently resorted to the same tortured logic as his predecessors; he has also stated things as fact that are manifestly and provably wrong.
That is because the balance of power has shifted against the status quo.Whatever the true result of the election, it is now plain that there is a vast constituency, even if it is not yet provably a majority, crying out for freedom.
Moreover the culture ministry lumps together objects that were smuggled out of the country illegally with those that were removed perhaps legally to a place of greater safety, but not provably so in an era when ownership was judged in a looser way.
He laments that India's politics give an equal hearing to "provably good" policies and "provably bad" ones, such as onerous labour laws, free electricity for farmers and caste quotas.His opening chapters show that circumstances often change before minds do: workers embraced technology only after their economic advantages became clear.
Perhaps his most far-reaching work was his invention, with the Israeli American computer scientist Yonatan Aumann and the Chinese computer scientist Yan Zong Ding, of Hyper-Encryption, the first provably unbreakable encryption scheme.
And yet if it had been merely showy, or, as some viewers appeared to think, provably insane, it could not have left so enduring an impact on the mind's eye.
Because while I could be wrong about macroeconomics (although I'm not), it's just not true, provably not true, that I'm alone in arguing that the current and near-future deficit aren't problems.
At first I couldn't believe that then-candidate George W. Bush was saying so many clearly, provably false things; then I couldn't believe that nobody in the news media was willing to point out the lies.
Like the traveling salesman problem, this is a computationally complex problem and the provably best solution is not guaranteed within a reasonable time.
Asked about "Prince Igor," Mr. Tcherniakov said that "there won't be any radical changes to the story," although he will use only music that is provably from Borodin.
