Self-reflecting ingenious machine can't be out-Gödeled

An ingenious machine that can ascertain its own syntax can avoid the Gödel problem. By progressively adding new syntax to its language, an ingenious machine could understand any new Gödel sentence that Lucas might present it with.

J. J. C. Smart (1961).
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