xkcd #3201: Proof Without Content
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There’s also a proof without content of a conjecture without content, but it’s left as an exercise for the reader.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3201/
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There really is an XKCD for everything.
That blank box is a proof if and only if it is a proof. That makes it a self-reference and has no truth value.
I suppose a boltsman brain could come into existence with a proof of the Poincare conjecture in it’s mind, then poof out of existence.
A white square still counts as content.
But that’s not a convincing proof.
The proof cannot exist without the conjecture.
It’s the trivial proof.
