We haven't proven whether the mathematics we use is entirely free of hidden contradictions.

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Gödel's incompleteness theorems showed that some mathematical systems can't prove their own consistency from within. Whether our foundational systems are truly contradiction-free remains, in a strict sense, unproven.

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