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Interesting, but...

The Wikipedia article gives 2 proofs for Rice's theorem.

a) As a corollary of Kleene's recursion theorem. This proof seems to rely on quines, and therefore relies on the same principle of self-referential paradox?

b) As a proof by reduction to the halting problem.

I'm not very confident in my interpretation of (a) ...



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