The thesis can be viewed as nothing but an ordinary mathematical definition. Comments by Gödel on the subject suggest this view, e.g. "the correct definition of mechanical computability was established beyond any doubt by Turing".[48] The case for viewing the thesis as nothing more than a definition is made explicitly by Robert I. Soare,[5] where it is also argued that Turing's definition of computability is no less likely to be correct than the epsilon-delta definition of a continuous function.