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I kinda wanna start a gödel numbering system for anti-wii arguments. For example, if claim 1 is "Only Nintendo games sell", claim 2 is "3rd parties still feel burned from the days of the N64", and claim 3 is "It's a WiiSports machine", then the following argument:

RandomTroll said:
It's not like anyone's buying games anyways, and even if they do they're just gonna buy Mario LXVII and not anything by third parties.

would be 2*claim1 * 3*claim2 * 5*claim3 and so on through all the claims we have set up. In this case, claim 1 and claim 3 are true (1) whereas claim2 is false(0), so the Gödel number for this argument in our small world would be 10 (2 * 5), although we could also add one for "Nintendo only makes sequels"

Once we have this set up, we can just calculate the Gödel number for any troll, and then set up a site that you can go to, put in the anti-wii argument, and get refutations back! It'll be perfect.

By the way, I blame WiiFit for this idea because I was on Amazon wondering if I should get it, and it recommended "Gödel Escher Bach" to me



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