• Re: Correcting logic to make it a system of correct reasoning [ philoso

    From olcott@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Fri May 13 18:35:38 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic

    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting is concerned, so >>>>>>> you
    better find another topic you don't know about.

    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the correct halt status >>>>>> for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual behavior that this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no algorithm can do
    what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code
    that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist such that D(X,Y) is >>>>> true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise.
    Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I know, I know...  I >>>>> don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this because you know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting.


    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden logical
    incoherence, false assumptions, or very well hidden gaps in their
    reasoning otherwise the fundamental nature of truth itself is broken.


    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be inconsistent with the
    system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then you need to
    strictly limit the capabilities of your logic system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a century behind in
    the knowledge of how Truth and Logic actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth understanding of
    all of the subtle nuances of computer science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of how logic systems
    systems sometimes diverge from correct reasoning when examined at the
    very high level abstraction of the philosophical foundation of the
    notion of (analytic) truth itself.

    Wittgenstein had the exact same issue with mathematicians
    learned-by-rote by-the-book without the slightest inkling of any of the
    key philosophical underpinnings of these things, simply taking for
    granted that they are all these underpinnings are infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is totally invisible
    to every learned-by-rote by-the-book mathematician.

    --
    Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott

    "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
    Genius hits a target no one else can see."
    Arthur Schopenhauer

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Fri May 13 20:27:35 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic

    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting is concerned, >>>>>>>> so you
    better find another topic you don't know about.

    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the correct halt
    status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual behavior that this >>>>>>> input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no algorithm can do
    what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code
    that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist such that
    D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise.
    Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I know, I know...  I >>>>>> don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this because you know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting.


    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden logical
    incoherence, false assumptions, or very well hidden gaps in their
    reasoning otherwise the fundamental nature of truth itself is broken.


    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be inconsistent with the
    system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then you need to
    strictly limit the capabilities of your logic system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a century behind in
    the knowledge of how Truth and Logic actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth understanding of
    all of the subtle nuances of computer science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of how logic systems systems sometimes diverge from correct reasoning when examined at the
    very high level abstraction of the philosophical foundation of the
    notion of (analytic) truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with mathematicians
    learned-by-rote by-the-book without the slightest inkling of any of the
    key philosophical underpinnings of these things, simply taking for
    granted that they are all these underpinnings are infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is totally invisible
    to every learned-by-rote by-the-book mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't make you right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly that century
    ago, to a man who admitted he didn't understand mathematics (and thought
    it not valuable)

    You aseem to be refering to writings published post-humously about a his comments on a paper he hadn't yet actually read, and that he never
    repeated after actually reading the paper.

    Yes, that is very good basis for claiming your idea have to be right.

    You have shown ZERO understanding for the rules of logic, and that your opinions are basically worthless.

    If you want to try to ACTUAL PROVE something, based on REAL ESTABLISHED
    rules of logic, go ahead and give a try.

    Note, this means NOT just falling back to "the meaning of the words"
    except when you are actually QUOTING the accepted meaning of those words
    in the field and showing how they apply.

    I don't know if I have ever seen you put together a string of logic more
    that one or two steps before you go off on a "this must be true" side
    track, and never actually use any of the fundamental definitions. (You
    may quotes some of them, but then never actually use that definition in
    your nest step of the proof).

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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Fri May 13 23:01:08 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic

    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting is concerned, >>>>>>>>> so you
    better find another topic you don't know about.

    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the correct halt
    status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual behavior that this >>>>>>>> input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no algorithm can do
    what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code
    that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist such that
    D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise.
    Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I know, I know...  I >>>>>>> don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this because you know that >>>>> would be the end of you bragging about halting.


    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden logical
    incoherence, false assumptions, or very well hidden gaps in their
    reasoning otherwise the fundamental nature of truth itself is broken.


    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be inconsistent with the
    system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then you need to
    strictly limit the capabilities of your logic system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a century behind
    in the knowledge of how Truth and Logic actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth understanding
    of all of the subtle nuances of computer science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of how logic
    systems systems sometimes diverge from correct reasoning when examined
    at the very high level abstraction of the philosophical foundation of
    the notion of (analytic) truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with mathematicians
    learned-by-rote by-the-book without the slightest inkling of any of
    the key philosophical underpinnings of these things, simply taking for
    granted that they are all these underpinnings are infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is totally invisible
    to every learned-by-rote by-the-book mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't make you right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly that century
    ago, to a man who admitted he didn't understand mathematics (and thought
    it not valuable)


    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far over everyone's
    head that they mistook his analysis for simplistic rather than most
    elegant bare essence.

    You aseem to be refering to writings published post-humously about a his comments on a paper he hadn't yet actually read, and that he never
    repeated after actually reading the paper.

    Yes, that is very good basis for claiming your idea have to be right.

    You have shown ZERO understanding for the rules of logic, and that your opinions are basically worthless.

    If you want to try to ACTUAL PROVE something, based on REAL ESTABLISHED
    rules of logic, go ahead and give a try.

    Note, this means NOT just falling back to "the meaning of the words"
    except when you are actually QUOTING the accepted meaning of those words
    in the field and showing how they apply.

    I don't know if I have ever seen you put together a string of logic more
    that one or two steps before you go off on a "this must be true" side
    track, and never actually use any of the fundamental definitions. (You
    may quotes some of them, but then never actually use that definition in
    your nest step of the proof).


    --
    Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott

    "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
    Genius hits a target no one else can see."
    Arthur Schopenhauer

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Sat May 14 09:42:21 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic

    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting is concerned, >>>>>>>>>> so you
    better find another topic you don't know about.

    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the correct halt
    status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual behavior that this >>>>>>>>> input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no algorithm can do >>>>>>>> what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code
    that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist such that
    D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise.
    Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I know, I know...  I >>>>>>>> don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this because you know that >>>>>> would be the end of you bragging about halting.


    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden logical
    incoherence, false assumptions, or very well hidden gaps in their
    reasoning otherwise the fundamental nature of truth itself is broken. >>>>>

    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be inconsistent with the
    system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then you need to
    strictly limit the capabilities of your logic system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a century behind
    in the knowledge of how Truth and Logic actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth understanding
    of all of the subtle nuances of computer science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of how logic
    systems systems sometimes diverge from correct reasoning when
    examined at the very high level abstraction of the philosophical
    foundation of the notion of (analytic) truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with mathematicians
    learned-by-rote by-the-book without the slightest inkling of any of
    the key philosophical underpinnings of these things, simply taking
    for granted that they are all these underpinnings are infallibly
    correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is totally
    invisible to every learned-by-rote by-the-book mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't make you right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly that century
    ago, to a man who admitted he didn't understand mathematics (and
    thought it not valuable)


    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far over everyone's
    head that they mistook his analysis for simplistic rather than most
    elegant bare essence.

    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not understanding what
    Godel actually said (because he hadn't read the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field I have intensly studied), this statement is solely from private notes that were
    published after his death. If he really believed in this statement as
    was sure of it, it would seem natural that he actually would of
    published it.

    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that there was an error
    in his logic that he worked on and either never resolved or he found his
    logic error and thus stopped believing in that statement.

    This make the "appeal" to him as an authority to rebut Godel incorrect,
    as he never stood as an authority to make such a claim, he just
    investigated it in private notes.

    Perhaps he realized that his argument to try to prove that Truth can be
    proven rested on the assumption of a definition that Truth was Provable
    and thus is just a circular argument.

    As I have put to you, PROVE that Truth must be Provable, or by your own
    logic the statement isn't true. We KNOW (if we have any intelligence)
    that there are Truths that we do not know about, so it is established
    that some truths are at least unknown for now. What is the basis for
    saying that there can't be an aspect that happens to be true even though
    we can not prove it?



    You aseem to be refering to writings published post-humously about a
    his comments on a paper he hadn't yet actually read, and that he never
    repeated after actually reading the paper.

    Yes, that is very good basis for claiming your idea have to be right.

    You have shown ZERO understanding for the rules of logic, and that
    your opinions are basically worthless.

    If you want to try to ACTUAL PROVE something, based on REAL
    ESTABLISHED rules of logic, go ahead and give a try.

    Note, this means NOT just falling back to "the meaning of the words"
    except when you are actually QUOTING the accepted meaning of those
    words in the field and showing how they apply.

    I don't know if I have ever seen you put together a string of logic
    more that one or two steps before you go off on a "this must be true"
    side track, and never actually use any of the fundamental definitions.
    (You may quotes some of them, but then never actually use that
    definition in your nest step of the proof).



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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Sat May 14 09:42:09 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic

    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting is
    concerned, so you
    better find another topic you don't know about.

    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the correct halt >>>>>>>>>> status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual behavior that this >>>>>>>>>> input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no algorithm can do >>>>>>>>> what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code
    that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist such that >>>>>>>>> D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise.
    Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I know, I
    know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this because you know that >>>>>>> would be the end of you bragging about halting.


    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden logical
    incoherence, false assumptions, or very well hidden gaps in their
    reasoning otherwise the fundamental nature of truth itself is broken. >>>>>>

    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be inconsistent with
    the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then you need to
    strictly limit the capabilities of your logic system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a century behind
    in the knowledge of how Truth and Logic actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth
    understanding of all of the subtle nuances of computer science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of how logic
    systems systems sometimes diverge from correct reasoning when
    examined at the very high level abstraction of the philosophical
    foundation of the notion of (analytic) truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with mathematicians
    learned-by-rote by-the-book without the slightest inkling of any of
    the key philosophical underpinnings of these things, simply taking
    for granted that they are all these underpinnings are infallibly
    correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is totally
    invisible to every learned-by-rote by-the-book mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't make you right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly that century
    ago, to a man who admitted he didn't understand mathematics (and
    thought it not valuable)


    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far over everyone's
    head that they mistook his analysis for simplistic rather than most
    elegant bare essence.

    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not understanding what Godel actually said (because he hadn't read the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field I have intensly studied), this statement is solely from private notes that were
    published after his death. If he really believed in this statement as
    was sure of it, it would seem natural that he actually would of
    published it.

    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that there was an error
    in his logic that he worked on and either never resolved or he found his logic error and thus stopped believing in that statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself shortly before I
    ever heard of Wittgenstein I have first-hand direct knowledge that his reasoning is correct.

    His full quote is on page 6 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel

    This is the key source of our agreement that makes Wittgenstein have the
    exact same view as mine:

    'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved
    in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system'
    means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's system.-

    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x)

    There are only two possible ways that any analytical expression of
    language can possibly be true:
    (1) It is stipulated to be true. // like an axiom
    (2) It is derived by applying only truth preserving operations to (1) or
    the consequences of (2). // like sound deduction

    Analytic truth includes every expression of language that can be
    completely verified as totally true entirely on the basis of its meaning without requiring any sense data from the sense organs.

    Empirical expressions of language also require sense data from the sense
    organs to verify their truth.

    This means that if there are no connected set of semantics meanings
    (sound deduction) that make an analytical expression of language true
    then then it cannot possibly be true unless it was stipulated as true.

    The conclusion of Wittgenstein's analysis and mind is that if G is
    unprovable in F then G is simply untrue in F.
    Incomplete(T) ↔ ∃φ ((T ⊬ φ) ∧ (T ⊬ ¬φ)).

    Even though F does meet the erroneous mathematical definition of
    Incomplete(F) that F was ever construed as incomplete is simply
    incorrect because it does not screen out expressions of language that
    are simply not truth bearers.

    Tarski made this same mistake with a much simply yet comparable proof to
    the Gödel 1931 incompleteness theorem:
    Tarski undefinability theorem 1936
    https://liarparadox.org/Tarski_275_276.pdf

    "the sentence x which is undecidable in the original theory
    becomes a decidable sentence in the enriched theory."

    It is not that Tarski's metatheory is smarter than his theory.
    It is that Tarski's x (the liar paradox) is not provable or true in his
    theory because it is not a truth bearer in his theory in the same way
    that Gödel's G is not a truth bearer in F.

    This make the "appeal" to him as an authority to rebut Godel incorrect,
    as he never stood as an authority to make such a claim, he just
    investigated it in private notes.

    Perhaps he realized that his argument to try to prove that Truth can be proven rested on the assumption of a definition that Truth was Provable
    and thus is just a circular argument.

    As I have put to you, PROVE that Truth must be Provable, or by your own
    logic the statement isn't true. We KNOW (if we have any intelligence)
    that there are Truths that we do not know about, so it is established
    that some truths are at least unknown for now. What is the basis for
    saying that there can't be an aspect that happens to be true even though
    we can not prove it?



    You aseem to be refering to writings published post-humously about a
    his comments on a paper he hadn't yet actually read, and that he
    never repeated after actually reading the paper.

    Yes, that is very good basis for claiming your idea have to be right.

    You have shown ZERO understanding for the rules of logic, and that
    your opinions are basically worthless.

    If you want to try to ACTUAL PROVE something, based on REAL
    ESTABLISHED rules of logic, go ahead and give a try.

    Note, this means NOT just falling back to "the meaning of the words"
    except when you are actually QUOTING the accepted meaning of those
    words in the field and showing how they apply.

    I don't know if I have ever seen you put together a string of logic
    more that one or two steps before you go off on a "this must be true"
    side track, and never actually use any of the fundamental
    definitions. (You may quotes some of them, but then never actually
    use that definition in your nest step of the proof).





    --
    Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott

    "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
    Genius hits a target no one else can see."
    Arthur Schopenhauer

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Sat May 14 10:59:10 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic

    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting is
    concerned, so you
    better find another topic you don't know about.

    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the correct halt >>>>>>>>>>> status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual behavior that >>>>>>>>>>> this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no algorithm can >>>>>>>>>> do what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code
    that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist such that >>>>>>>>>> D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise.
    Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I know, I
    know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this because you know >>>>>>>> that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting.


    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden logical
    incoherence, false assumptions, or very well hidden gaps in their >>>>>>> reasoning otherwise the fundamental nature of truth itself is
    broken.


    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be inconsistent with
    the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then you need
    to strictly limit the capabilities of your logic system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a century
    behind in the knowledge of how Truth and Logic actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth
    understanding of all of the subtle nuances of computer science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of how logic
    systems systems sometimes diverge from correct reasoning when
    examined at the very high level abstraction of the philosophical
    foundation of the notion of (analytic) truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with mathematicians
    learned-by-rote by-the-book without the slightest inkling of any of
    the key philosophical underpinnings of these things, simply taking
    for granted that they are all these underpinnings are infallibly
    correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is totally
    invisible to every learned-by-rote by-the-book mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't make you right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly that
    century ago, to a man who admitted he didn't understand mathematics
    (and thought it not valuable)


    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far over everyone's
    head that they mistook his analysis for simplistic rather than most
    elegant bare essence.

    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not understanding
    what Godel actually said (because he hadn't read the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field I have
    intensly studied), this statement is solely from private notes that
    were published after his death. If he really believed in this
    statement as was sure of it, it would seem natural that he actually
    would of published it.

    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that there was an
    error in his logic that he worked on and either never resolved or he
    found his logic error and thus stopped believing in that statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself shortly before I
    ever heard of Wittgenstein I have first-hand direct knowledge that his reasoning is correct.

    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree with it,

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of understanding.


    His full quote is on page 6 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes Wittgenstein have the exact same view as mine:

       'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved
        in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system'
        means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's system.-

    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x)

    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or needs to be proved
    to be true.

    If needs to be taken as an assumption, it is not something that IS unconditionally true.


    There are only two possible ways that any analytical expression of
    language can possibly be true:
    (1) It is stipulated to be true. // like an axiom
    (2) It is derived by applying only truth preserving operations to (1) or
    the consequences of (2).         // like sound deduction

    WRONG.

    There are only two possible ways that they can be ANALYTICALLY true.


    Analytic truth includes every expression of language that can be
    completely verified as totally true entirely on the basis of its meaning without requiring any sense data from the sense organs.

    And there are other truths besides Analytic Truth. That is implied by
    the need of the adjective.


    Empirical expressions of language also require sense data from the sense organs to verify their truth.

    Nope, things can be empirically true even without the sense data.
    Without the sense data they are not KNOWN to be true, but might be.


    This means that if there are no connected set of semantics meanings
    (sound deduction) that make an analytical expression of language true
    then then it cannot possibly be true unless it was stipulated as true.

    WRONG. You are again confalating KNOWLEDGE with TRUTH.


    The conclusion of Wittgenstein's analysis and mind is that if G is
    unprovable in F then G is simply untrue in F.
    Incomplete(T) ↔ ∃φ ((T ⊬ φ) ∧ (T ⊬ ¬φ)).

    WRONG.

    Makes the erroneous assumption that Truth requires proof, and becomes a circular argument.


    Even though F does meet the erroneous mathematical definition of Incomplete(F) that F was ever construed as incomplete is simply
    incorrect because it does not screen out expressions of language that
    are simply not truth bearers.

    Except that the expression of language WAS a Truth Bearer, as a given
    statement MUST be either Provable or not. This comes because you of
    course can't prove an statement that can't be true, like a non-sense
    sentence.

    Unless you are willing to define that Provability isn't a Truth Bearer,
    which since you are then defining Truth as Provable, the Truth of a
    statement isn't a Truth Bearer, you have a problem. You whole logic
    system collapses as it can no longer talk about itself.



    Tarski made this same mistake with a much simply yet comparable proof to
    the Gödel 1931 incompleteness theorem:
    Tarski undefinability theorem 1936
    https://liarparadox.org/Tarski_275_276.pdf

       "the sentence x which is undecidable in the original theory
       becomes a decidable sentence in the enriched theory."

    It is not that Tarski's metatheory is smarter than his theory.
    It is that Tarski's x (the liar paradox) is not provable or true in his theory because it is not a truth bearer in his theory in the same way
    that Gödel's G is not a truth bearer in F.

    This make the "appeal" to him as an authority to rebut Godel
    incorrect, as he never stood as an authority to make such a claim, he
    just investigated it in private notes.

    Perhaps he realized that his argument to try to prove that Truth can
    be proven rested on the assumption of a definition that Truth was
    Provable and thus is just a circular argument.

    As I have put to you, PROVE that Truth must be Provable, or by your
    own logic the statement isn't true. We KNOW (if we have any
    intelligence) that there are Truths that we do not know about, so it
    is established that some truths are at least unknown for now. What is
    the basis for saying that there can't be an aspect that happens to be
    true even though we can not prove it?



    You aseem to be refering to writings published post-humously about a
    his comments on a paper he hadn't yet actually read, and that he
    never repeated after actually reading the paper.

    Yes, that is very good basis for claiming your idea have to be right.

    You have shown ZERO understanding for the rules of logic, and that
    your opinions are basically worthless.

    If you want to try to ACTUAL PROVE something, based on REAL
    ESTABLISHED rules of logic, go ahead and give a try.

    Note, this means NOT just falling back to "the meaning of the words"
    except when you are actually QUOTING the accepted meaning of those
    words in the field and showing how they apply.

    I don't know if I have ever seen you put together a string of logic
    more that one or two steps before you go off on a "this must be
    true" side track, and never actually use any of the fundamental
    definitions. (You may quotes some of them, but then never actually
    use that definition in your nest step of the proof).






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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Sat May 14 10:32:39 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.prolog

    On 5/14/2022 9:59 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting is >>>>>>>>>>>>> concerned, so you
    better find another topic you don't know about.

    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the correct halt >>>>>>>>>>>> status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual behavior that >>>>>>>>>>>> this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no algorithm can >>>>>>>>>>> do what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code
    that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist such that >>>>>>>>>>> D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise.
    Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I know, I >>>>>>>>>>> know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this because you know >>>>>>>>> that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting.


    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden logical
    incoherence, false assumptions, or very well hidden gaps in
    their reasoning otherwise the fundamental nature of truth itself >>>>>>>> is broken.


    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be inconsistent with >>>>>>> the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then you need >>>>>>> to strictly limit the capabilities of your logic system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a century
    behind in the knowledge of how Truth and Logic actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth
    understanding of all of the subtle nuances of computer science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of how logic
    systems systems sometimes diverge from correct reasoning when
    examined at the very high level abstraction of the philosophical
    foundation of the notion of (analytic) truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with mathematicians
    learned-by-rote by-the-book without the slightest inkling of any
    of the key philosophical underpinnings of these things, simply
    taking for granted that they are all these underpinnings are
    infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is totally
    invisible to every learned-by-rote by-the-book mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't make you right. >>>>>
    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly that
    century ago, to a man who admitted he didn't understand mathematics
    (and thought it not valuable)


    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far over
    everyone's head that they mistook his analysis for simplistic rather
    than most elegant bare essence.

    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not understanding
    what Godel actually said (because he hadn't read the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field I have
    intensly studied), this statement is solely from private notes that
    were published after his death. If he really believed in this
    statement as was sure of it, it would seem natural that he actually
    would of published it.

    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that there was an
    error in his logic that he worked on and either never resolved or he
    found his logic error and thus stopped believing in that statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself shortly before I
    ever heard of Wittgenstein I have first-hand direct knowledge that his
    reasoning is correct.

    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree with it,


    No, I independently verified his reasoning before I ever saw his reasoning.

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of understanding.


    His full quote is on page 6
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes Wittgenstein have
    the exact same view as mine:

        'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved
         in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system'
         means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's system.-

    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x)

    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or needs to be proved
    to be true.


    That no counter-examples can possibly exist is complete proof that it is
    true. There are no categories of expressions of language that are both
    true and neither stipulated as true or proven to be true (sound
    deduction) on the basis of semantic connections to other true
    expressions of language.

    If needs to be taken as an assumption, it is not something that IS unconditionally true.


    There are only two possible ways that any ANALYTICALLY expression of
    language can possibly be true:
    (1) It is stipulated to be true. // like an axiom
    (2) It is derived by applying only truth preserving operations to (1)
    or the consequences of (2).         // like sound deduction

    WRONG.

    There are only two possible ways that they can be ANALYTICALLY true.


    Should I capitalize my use of ANALYTICALLY too so that you can see that
    I already specified this? (I capitalized it, above)


    Analytic truth includes every expression of language that can be
    completely verified as totally true entirely on the basis of its
    meaning without requiring any sense data from the sense organs.

    And there are other truths besides Analytic Truth. That is implied by
    the need of the adjective.

    All of math and logic is exclusively ANALYTICAL.


    Empirical expressions of language also require sense data from the
    sense organs to verify their truth.

    Nope, things can be empirically true even without the sense data.
    Without the sense data they are not KNOWN to be true, but might be.


    to verify their truth.
    to verify their truth.
    to verify their truth.


    This means that if there are no connected set of semantics meanings
    (sound deduction) that make an analytical expression of language true
    then then it cannot possibly be true unless it was stipulated as true.

    WRONG. You are again confalating KNOWLEDGE with TRUTH.

    Counter-examples are categorically impossible because ALL ANALYTIC
    expressions of language ONLY derive their truth value from semantic
    connections to other ANALYTIC expressions of language that are known to
    be true, AKA sound deduction.



    The conclusion of Wittgenstein's analysis and mind is that if G is
    unprovable in F then G is simply untrue in F.
    Incomplete(T) ↔ ∃φ ((T ⊬ φ) ∧ (T ⊬ ¬φ)).

    WRONG.

    Makes the erroneous assumption that Truth requires proof, and becomes a circular argument.

    It is not a circle it is a tree of sound deduction.
    The conclusion is linked backwards (sound deduction in reverse) to every expression of language that derives it.



    Even though F does meet the erroneous mathematical definition of
    Incomplete(F) that F was ever construed as incomplete is simply
    incorrect because it does not screen out expressions of language that
    are simply not truth bearers.

    Except that the expression of language WAS a Truth Bearer, as a given statement MUST be either Provable or not. This comes because you of
    course can't prove an statement that can't be true, like a non-sense sentence.


    As recently as 1974, people were still clueless about the issue of the
    liar paradox.It is the simplest of all self-reference paradoxes so I
    bought the domain name liarparadox.org for my work.

    Tarski based his whole proof on the liar paradox and proved in his
    metatheory that it is not provable in his theory, same result as Godel.

    Unless you are willing to define that Provability isn't a Truth Bearer,
    which since you are then defining Truth as Provable, the Truth of a
    statement isn't a Truth Bearer, you have a problem. You whole logic
    system collapses as it can no longer talk about itself.


    True(F, x) is implemented as Provable(F, x) through sound deduction on
    the basis of premises known to be true. In a reverse sound deduction
    (same thing as Prolog back-chaining inference) know truths (AKA Prolog
    facts) are sought on the basis of Prolog rules.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=prolog+back+chainikng&rlz=1C1GCEJ_enUS813US813&oq=prolog+back+chainikng&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i10i160.4658j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8




    Tarski made this same mistake with a much simply yet comparable proof
    to the Gödel 1931 incompleteness theorem:
    Tarski undefinability theorem 1936
    https://liarparadox.org/Tarski_275_276.pdf

        "the sentence x which is undecidable in the original theory
        becomes a decidable sentence in the enriched theory."

    It is not that Tarski's metatheory is smarter than his theory.
    It is that Tarski's x (the liar paradox) is not provable or true in
    his theory because it is not a truth bearer in his theory in the same
    way that Gödel's G is not a truth bearer in F.

    This make the "appeal" to him as an authority to rebut Godel
    incorrect, as he never stood as an authority to make such a claim, he
    just investigated it in private notes.

    Perhaps he realized that his argument to try to prove that Truth can
    be proven rested on the assumption of a definition that Truth was
    Provable and thus is just a circular argument.

    As I have put to you, PROVE that Truth must be Provable, or by your
    own logic the statement isn't true. We KNOW (if we have any
    intelligence) that there are Truths that we do not know about, so it
    is established that some truths are at least unknown for now. What is
    the basis for saying that there can't be an aspect that happens to be
    true even though we can not prove it?



    You aseem to be refering to writings published post-humously about
    a his comments on a paper he hadn't yet actually read, and that he
    never repeated after actually reading the paper.

    Yes, that is very good basis for claiming your idea have to be right. >>>>>
    You have shown ZERO understanding for the rules of logic, and that
    your opinions are basically worthless.

    If you want to try to ACTUAL PROVE something, based on REAL
    ESTABLISHED rules of logic, go ahead and give a try.

    Note, this means NOT just falling back to "the meaning of the
    words" except when you are actually QUOTING the accepted meaning of
    those words in the field and showing how they apply.

    I don't know if I have ever seen you put together a string of logic
    more that one or two steps before you go off on a "this must be
    true" side track, and never actually use any of the fundamental
    definitions. (You may quotes some of them, but then never actually
    use that definition in your nest step of the proof).








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    Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott

    "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
    Genius hits a target no one else can see."
    Arthur Schopenhauer

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Sat May 14 12:42:50 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.prolog

    On 5/14/22 11:32 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 9:59 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting is >>>>>>>>>>>>>> concerned, so you
    better find another topic you don't know about.

    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the correct halt >>>>>>>>>>>>> status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual behavior >>>>>>>>>>>>> that this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no algorithm can >>>>>>>>>>>> do what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code
    that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist such that >>>>>>>>>>>> D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise. >>>>>>>>>>>> Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I know, I >>>>>>>>>>>> know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this because you >>>>>>>>>> know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting.


    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden logical >>>>>>>>> incoherence, false assumptions, or very well hidden gaps in
    their reasoning otherwise the fundamental nature of truth
    itself is broken.


    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be inconsistent with >>>>>>>> the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then you need >>>>>>>> to strictly limit the capabilities of your logic system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a century
    behind in the knowledge of how Truth and Logic actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth
    understanding of all of the subtle nuances of computer science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of how logic
    systems systems sometimes diverge from correct reasoning when
    examined at the very high level abstraction of the philosophical >>>>>>> foundation of the notion of (analytic) truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with mathematicians
    learned-by-rote by-the-book without the slightest inkling of any >>>>>>> of the key philosophical underpinnings of these things, simply
    taking for granted that they are all these underpinnings are
    infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is totally
    invisible to every learned-by-rote by-the-book mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't make you right. >>>>>>
    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly that
    century ago, to a man who admitted he didn't understand
    mathematics (and thought it not valuable)


    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far over
    everyone's head that they mistook his analysis for simplistic
    rather than most elegant bare essence.

    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not understanding
    what Godel actually said (because he hadn't read the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field I have
    intensly studied), this statement is solely from private notes that
    were published after his death. If he really believed in this
    statement as was sure of it, it would seem natural that he actually
    would of published it.

    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that there was an
    error in his logic that he worked on and either never resolved or he
    found his logic error and thus stopped believing in that statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself shortly before
    I ever heard of Wittgenstein I have first-hand direct knowledge that
    his reasoning is correct.

    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree with it,


    No, I independently verified his reasoning before I ever saw his reasoning.

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of understanding.


    His full quote is on page 6
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes Wittgenstein have
    the exact same view as mine:

        'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved
         in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system'
         means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's system.-

    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x)

    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or needs to be proved
    to be true.


    That no counter-examples can possibly exist is complete proof that it is true. There are no categories of expressions of language that are both
    true and neither stipulated as true or proven to be true (sound
    deduction) on the basis of semantic connections to other true
    expressions of language.

    WRONG. Again you conflate Analytic truth with truth.

    The Collatz conjecture, that there exist no number N such that the
    sequence of progreesing to 3N+1 for N odd, and N/2 for N even doesn't eventually reach 1, MUST be either True of False. There is no possible "non-answer", as math doesn't allow for such things.

    Thus either the statement "Collatz is True", or "Collatz is False", must
    be true, and there is no known proof or refutation for either, While
    this doesn't prove that no proof exists, it does point out a flaw with
    your statement, until you have actually proved or refuted a statement,
    you don't even know if it could be a truth bearer.

    Thus we have a, at least possible, counter-example when you claim none
    exist. You can only refute this as a possible counter-example by actualy proving that a proof or refutation actually exists.


    If needs to be taken as an assumption, it is not something that IS
    unconditionally true.


    There are only two possible ways that any ANALYTICALLY expression of
    language can possibly be true:
    (1) It is stipulated to be true. // like an axiom
    (2) It is derived by applying only truth preserving operations to (1)
    or the consequences of (2).         // like sound deduction

    WRONG.

    There are only two possible ways that they can be ANALYTICALLY true.


    Should I capitalize my use of ANALYTICALLY too so that you can see that
    I already specified this? (I capitalized it, above)

    Except then it points out that you erroeous omit it in your other
    statements.


    Analytic truth includes every expression of language that can be
    completely verified as totally true entirely on the basis of its
    meaning without requiring any sense data from the sense organs.

    And there are other truths besides Analytic Truth. That is implied by
    the need of the adjective.

    All of math and logic is exclusively ANALYTICAL.

    That is part of your error. Math and Logic use analytical methods to
    prove its ideas, but not all Truth in math and logic is Analytical.



    Empirical expressions of language also require sense data from the
    sense organs to verify their truth.

    Nope, things can be empirically true even without the sense data.
    Without the sense data they are not KNOWN to be true, but might be.


    to verify their truth.
    to verify their truth.
    to verify their truth.

    Truth doesn't need to be "Verified" to be True. It only needs to be
    verified before its Truth can be used to create other Truths in a Proof.



    This means that if there are no connected set of semantics meanings
    (sound deduction) that make an analytical expression of language true
    then then it cannot possibly be true unless it was stipulated as true.

    WRONG. You are again confalating KNOWLEDGE with TRUTH.

    Counter-examples are categorically impossible because ALL ANALYTIC expressions of language ONLY derive their truth value from semantic connections to other ANALYTIC expressions of language that are known to
    be true, AKA sound deduction.


    Thus, the circular definition.

    You only show that ANALYTIC Truth must be proven, not Truth.

    Analytics accept that not all Truth is Analytically proven. You make a
    category error assuming all Truth must be Analytically True.

    Note, An Analytical Statement might be True but not Analytically ture.


    The conclusion of Wittgenstein's analysis and mind is that if G is
    unprovable in F then G is simply untrue in F.
    Incomplete(T) ↔ ∃φ ((T ⊬ φ) ∧ (T ⊬ ¬φ)).

    WRONG.

    Makes the erroneous assumption that Truth requires proof, and becomes
    a circular argument.

    It is not a circle it is a tree of sound deduction.
    The conclusion is linked backwards (sound deduction in reverse) to every expression of language that derives it.

    Nope. Give the NON-CIRCULAR proof.

    Your failure to show what you claim is evidence that you don't actually
    have a real proof.

    Your statement that "Something is True only if it is Provable" is itself
    a contradiction unless you can ACTUALLY prove it, and until you do, you
    can not use it.

    Without such a proof, the statement says it can not be true, so you can
    not use it.




    Even though F does meet the erroneous mathematical definition of
    Incomplete(F) that F was ever construed as incomplete is simply
    incorrect because it does not screen out expressions of language that
    are simply not truth bearers.

    Except that the expression of language WAS a Truth Bearer, as a given
    statement MUST be either Provable or not. This comes because you of
    course can't prove an statement that can't be true, like a non-sense
    sentence.


    As recently as 1974, people were still clueless about the issue of the
    liar paradox.It is the simplest of all self-reference paradoxes so I
    bought the domain name liarparadox.org for my work.

    Tarski based his whole proof on the liar paradox and proved in his
    metatheory that it is not provable in his theory, same result as Godel.

    Unless you are willing to define that Provability isn't a Truth
    Bearer, which since you are then defining Truth as Provable, the Truth
    of a statement isn't a Truth Bearer, you have a problem. You whole
    logic system collapses as it can no longer talk about itself.


    True(F, x) is implemented as Provable(F, x) through sound deduction on
    the basis of premises known to be true. In a reverse sound deduction
    (same thing as Prolog back-chaining inference) know truths (AKA Prolog
    facts) are sought on the basis of Prolog rules.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=prolog+back+chainikng&rlz=1C1GCEJ_enUS813US813&oq=prolog+back+chainikng&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i10i160.4658j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8



    And Prolog doesn't define logic, but is just a programming languge to
    handle simple rule sets.

    Note, Prolog doesn't provide a well implemented "Not" operator, in part
    BECAUSE it defines a statement that is unprovable as false.

    If you want to limit your logic to what Prolog can handle, be my guess,
    but then stay out of things beyond its capability, like Compuation Theory.

    I don't think you are smart enough to understand the limitation of
    Prolog (or even simple logic) and thus make enormous errors not
    understanding the limited domain of your tools.

    You just don't see that you logic system has become horribly
    inconsistent because you close your eyes to those errors and say that
    logic must be wrong, but you can't actually define WHAT is wrong with
    the logic, because it actually does follow the rules you propose.



    Tarski made this same mistake with a much simply yet comparable proof
    to the Gödel 1931 incompleteness theorem:
    Tarski undefinability theorem 1936
    https://liarparadox.org/Tarski_275_276.pdf

        "the sentence x which is undecidable in the original theory
        becomes a decidable sentence in the enriched theory."

    It is not that Tarski's metatheory is smarter than his theory.
    It is that Tarski's x (the liar paradox) is not provable or true in
    his theory because it is not a truth bearer in his theory in the same
    way that Gödel's G is not a truth bearer in F.

    This make the "appeal" to him as an authority to rebut Godel
    incorrect, as he never stood as an authority to make such a claim,
    he just investigated it in private notes.

    Perhaps he realized that his argument to try to prove that Truth can
    be proven rested on the assumption of a definition that Truth was
    Provable and thus is just a circular argument.

    As I have put to you, PROVE that Truth must be Provable, or by your
    own logic the statement isn't true. We KNOW (if we have any
    intelligence) that there are Truths that we do not know about, so it
    is established that some truths are at least unknown for now. What
    is the basis for saying that there can't be an aspect that happens
    to be true even though we can not prove it?



    You aseem to be refering to writings published post-humously about >>>>>> a his comments on a paper he hadn't yet actually read, and that he >>>>>> never repeated after actually reading the paper.

    Yes, that is very good basis for claiming your idea have to be right. >>>>>>
    You have shown ZERO understanding for the rules of logic, and that >>>>>> your opinions are basically worthless.

    If you want to try to ACTUAL PROVE something, based on REAL
    ESTABLISHED rules of logic, go ahead and give a try.

    Note, this means NOT just falling back to "the meaning of the
    words" except when you are actually QUOTING the accepted meaning
    of those words in the field and showing how they apply.

    I don't know if I have ever seen you put together a string of
    logic more that one or two steps before you go off on a "this must >>>>>> be true" side track, and never actually use any of the fundamental >>>>>> definitions. (You may quotes some of them, but then never actually >>>>>> use that definition in your nest step of the proof).









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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Sat May 14 12:25:12 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.prolog

    On 5/14/2022 11:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 11:32 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 9:59 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> concerned, so you
    better find another topic you don't know about.

    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the correct >>>>>>>>>>>>>> halt status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual behavior >>>>>>>>>>>>>> that this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no algorithm >>>>>>>>>>>>> can do what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code
    that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist such >>>>>>>>>>>>> that D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise. >>>>>>>>>>>>> Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I know, I >>>>>>>>>>>>> know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this because you >>>>>>>>>>> know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting.


    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden logical >>>>>>>>>> incoherence, false assumptions, or very well hidden gaps in >>>>>>>>>> their reasoning otherwise the fundamental nature of truth
    itself is broken.


    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be inconsistent
    with the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then you
    need to strictly limit the capabilities of your logic system. >>>>>>>>>
    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a century >>>>>>>>> behind in the knowledge of how Truth and Logic actually works. >>>>>>>>
    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth
    understanding of all of the subtle nuances of computer science. >>>>>>>>
    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of how logic >>>>>>>> systems systems sometimes diverge from correct reasoning when
    examined at the very high level abstraction of the philosophical >>>>>>>> foundation of the notion of (analytic) truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with mathematicians
    learned-by-rote by-the-book without the slightest inkling of any >>>>>>>> of the key philosophical underpinnings of these things, simply >>>>>>>> taking for granted that they are all these underpinnings are
    infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is totally
    invisible to every learned-by-rote by-the-book mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't make you right. >>>>>>>
    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly that
    century ago, to a man who admitted he didn't understand
    mathematics (and thought it not valuable)


    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far over
    everyone's head that they mistook his analysis for simplistic
    rather than most elegant bare essence.

    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not understanding
    what Godel actually said (because he hadn't read the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field I have
    intensly studied), this statement is solely from private notes that
    were published after his death. If he really believed in this
    statement as was sure of it, it would seem natural that he actually
    would of published it.

    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that there was an
    error in his logic that he worked on and either never resolved or
    he found his logic error and thus stopped believing in that statement. >>>>>

    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself shortly before
    I ever heard of Wittgenstein I have first-hand direct knowledge that
    his reasoning is correct.

    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree with it,


    No, I independently verified his reasoning before I ever saw his
    reasoning.

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of understanding.


    His full quote is on page 6
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes Wittgenstein have
    the exact same view as mine:

        'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved
         in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system'
         means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's system.-

    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x)

    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or needs to be
    proved to be true.


    That no counter-examples can possibly exist is complete proof that it
    is true. There are no categories of expressions of language that are
    both true and neither stipulated as true or proven to be true (sound
    deduction) on the basis of semantic connections to other true
    expressions of language.

    WRONG. Again you conflate Analytic truth with truth.


    I am ALWAYS only talking about ANALYTIC TRUTH, the only time I ever talk
    about EMPIRICAL TRUTH, is to say that I am not talking about that.

    The Collatz conjecture, that there exist no number N such that the
    sequence of progreesing to 3N+1 for N odd, and N/2 for N even doesn't eventually reach 1, MUST be either True of False. There is no possible "non-answer", as math doesn't allow for such things.


    If the answer requires an infinite search then this answer cannot be
    derived in finite time. None-the-less there exists a connected set of
    semantic meanings that make it true or false even if they cannot be
    found in finite time.

    Thus either the statement "Collatz is True", or "Collatz is False", must
    be true, and there is no known proof or refutation for either, While
    this doesn't prove that no proof exists, it does point out a flaw with
    your statement, until you have actually proved or refuted a statement,
    you don't even know if it could be a truth bearer.

    Thus we have a, at least possible, counter-example when you claim none
    exist. You can only refute this as a possible counter-example by actualy proving that a proof or refutation actually exists.


    If needs to be taken as an assumption, it is not something that IS
    unconditionally true.


    There are only two possible ways that any ANALYTICALLY expression of
    language can possibly be true:
    (1) It is stipulated to be true. // like an axiom
    (2) It is derived by applying only truth preserving operations to
    (1) or the consequences of (2).         // like sound deduction >>>
    WRONG.

    There are only two possible ways that they can be ANALYTICALLY true.


    Should I capitalize my use of ANALYTICALLY too so that you can see
    that I already specified this? (I capitalized it, above)

    Except then it points out that you erroeous omit it in your other
    statements.


    Analytic truth includes every expression of language that can be
    completely verified as totally true entirely on the basis of its
    meaning without requiring any sense data from the sense organs.

    And there are other truths besides Analytic Truth. That is implied by
    the need of the adjective.

    All of math and logic is exclusively ANALYTICAL.

    That is part of your error. Math and Logic use analytical methods to
    prove its ideas, but not all Truth in math and logic is Analytical.



    Empirical expressions of language also require sense data from the
    sense organs to verify their truth.

    Nope, things can be empirically true even without the sense data.
    Without the sense data they are not KNOWN to be true, but might be.


    to verify their truth.
    to verify their truth.
    to verify their truth.

    Truth doesn't need to be "Verified" to be True. It only needs to be
    verified before its Truth can be used to create other Truths in a Proof.



    This means that if there are no connected set of semantics meanings
    (sound deduction) that make an analytical expression of language
    true then then it cannot possibly be true unless it was stipulated
    as true.

    WRONG. You are again confalating KNOWLEDGE with TRUTH.

    Counter-examples are categorically impossible because ALL ANALYTIC
    expressions of language ONLY derive their truth value from semantic
    connections to other ANALYTIC expressions of language that are known
    to be true, AKA sound deduction.


    Thus, the circular definition.

    You only show that ANALYTIC Truth must be proven, not Truth.

    Analytics accept that not all Truth is Analytically proven. You make a category error assuming all Truth must be Analytically True.

    Note, An Analytical Statement might be True but not Analytically ture.


    The conclusion of Wittgenstein's analysis and mind is that if G is
    unprovable in F then G is simply untrue in F.
    Incomplete(T) ↔ ∃φ ((T ⊬ φ) ∧ (T ⊬ ¬φ)).

    WRONG.

    Makes the erroneous assumption that Truth requires proof, and becomes
    a circular argument.

    It is not a circle it is a tree of sound deduction.
    The conclusion is linked backwards (sound deduction in reverse) to
    every expression of language that derives it.

    Nope. Give the NON-CIRCULAR proof.

    Your failure to show what you claim is evidence that you don't actually
    have a real proof.

    Your statement that "Something is True only if it is Provable" is itself
    a contradiction unless you can ACTUALLY prove it, and until you do, you
    can not use it.

    Without such a proof, the statement says it can not be true, so you can
    not use it.




    Even though F does meet the erroneous mathematical definition of
    Incomplete(F) that F was ever construed as incomplete is simply
    incorrect because it does not screen out expressions of language
    that are simply not truth bearers.

    Except that the expression of language WAS a Truth Bearer, as a given
    statement MUST be either Provable or not. This comes because you of
    course can't prove an statement that can't be true, like a non-sense
    sentence.


    As recently as 1974, people were still clueless about the issue of the
    liar paradox.It is the simplest of all self-reference paradoxes so I
    bought the domain name liarparadox.org for my work.

    Tarski based his whole proof on the liar paradox and proved in his
    metatheory that it is not provable in his theory, same result as Godel.

    Unless you are willing to define that Provability isn't a Truth
    Bearer, which since you are then defining Truth as Provable, the
    Truth of a statement isn't a Truth Bearer, you have a problem. You
    whole logic system collapses as it can no longer talk about itself.


    True(F, x) is implemented as Provable(F, x) through sound deduction on
    the basis of premises known to be true. In a reverse sound deduction
    (same thing as Prolog back-chaining inference) know truths (AKA Prolog
    facts) are sought on the basis of Prolog rules.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=prolog+back+chainikng&rlz=1C1GCEJ_enUS813US813&oq=prolog+back+chainikng&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i10i160.4658j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8



    And Prolog doesn't define logic, but is just a programming languge to
    handle simple rule sets.

    Note, Prolog doesn't provide a well implemented "Not" operator, in part BECAUSE it defines a statement that is unprovable as false.

    If you want to limit your logic to what Prolog can handle, be my guess,
    but then stay out of things beyond its capability, like Compuation Theory.

    I don't think you are smart enough to understand the limitation of
    Prolog (or even simple logic) and thus make enormous errors not
    understanding the limited domain of your tools.

    You just don't see that you logic system has become horribly
    inconsistent because you close your eyes to those errors and say that
    logic must be wrong, but you can't actually define WHAT is wrong with
    the logic, because it actually does follow the rules you propose.



    Tarski made this same mistake with a much simply yet comparable
    proof to the Gödel 1931 incompleteness theorem:
    Tarski undefinability theorem 1936
    https://liarparadox.org/Tarski_275_276.pdf

        "the sentence x which is undecidable in the original theory
        becomes a decidable sentence in the enriched theory."

    It is not that Tarski's metatheory is smarter than his theory.
    It is that Tarski's x (the liar paradox) is not provable or true in
    his theory because it is not a truth bearer in his theory in the
    same way that Gödel's G is not a truth bearer in F.

    This make the "appeal" to him as an authority to rebut Godel
    incorrect, as he never stood as an authority to make such a claim,
    he just investigated it in private notes.

    Perhaps he realized that his argument to try to prove that Truth
    can be proven rested on the assumption of a definition that Truth
    was Provable and thus is just a circular argument.

    As I have put to you, PROVE that Truth must be Provable, or by your
    own logic the statement isn't true. We KNOW (if we have any
    intelligence) that there are Truths that we do not know about, so
    it is established that some truths are at least unknown for now.
    What is the basis for saying that there can't be an aspect that
    happens to be true even though we can not prove it?



    You aseem to be refering to writings published post-humously
    about a his comments on a paper he hadn't yet actually read, and >>>>>>> that he never repeated after actually reading the paper.

    Yes, that is very good basis for claiming your idea have to be
    right.

    You have shown ZERO understanding for the rules of logic, and
    that your opinions are basically worthless.

    If you want to try to ACTUAL PROVE something, based on REAL
    ESTABLISHED rules of logic, go ahead and give a try.

    Note, this means NOT just falling back to "the meaning of the
    words" except when you are actually QUOTING the accepted meaning >>>>>>> of those words in the field and showing how they apply.

    I don't know if I have ever seen you put together a string of
    logic more that one or two steps before you go off on a "this
    must be true" side track, and never actually use any of the
    fundamental definitions. (You may quotes some of them, but then
    never actually use that definition in your nest step of the proof). >>>>>>










    --
    Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott

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    Arthur Schopenhauer

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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Sat May 14 16:02:58 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.prolog

    On 5/14/2022 3:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 1:25 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 11:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 11:32 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 9:59 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> concerned, so you
    better find another topic you don't know about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the correct >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> halt status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual behavior >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no algorithm >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> can do what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code
    that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist such >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I know, I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this because you >>>>>>>>>>>>> know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting.


    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden
    logical incoherence, false assumptions, or very well hidden >>>>>>>>>>>> gaps in their reasoning otherwise the fundamental nature of >>>>>>>>>>>> truth itself is broken.


    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be inconsistent >>>>>>>>>>> with the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then you >>>>>>>>>>> need to strictly limit the capabilities of your logic system. >>>>>>>>>>>
    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a century >>>>>>>>>>> behind in the knowledge of how Truth and Logic actually works. >>>>>>>>>>
    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth
    understanding of all of the subtle nuances of computer science. >>>>>>>>>>
    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of how
    logic systems systems sometimes diverge from correct reasoning >>>>>>>>>> when examined at the very high level abstraction of the
    philosophical foundation of the notion of (analytic) truth >>>>>>>>>> itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with mathematicians
    learned-by-rote by-the-book without the slightest inkling of >>>>>>>>>> any of the key philosophical underpinnings of these things, >>>>>>>>>> simply taking for granted that they are all these
    underpinnings are infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is totally >>>>>>>>>> invisible to every learned-by-rote by-the-book mathematician. >>>>>>>>>>

    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't make you >>>>>>>>> right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly that >>>>>>>>> century ago, to a man who admitted he didn't understand
    mathematics (and thought it not valuable)


    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far over
    everyone's head that they mistook his analysis for simplistic
    rather than most elegant bare essence.

    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not
    understanding what Godel actually said (because he hadn't read
    the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field I have
    intensly studied), this statement is solely from private notes
    that were published after his death. If he really believed in
    this statement as was sure of it, it would seem natural that he
    actually would of published it.

    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that there was
    an error in his logic that he worked on and either never resolved >>>>>>> or he found his logic error and thus stopped believing in that
    statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself shortly
    before I ever heard of Wittgenstein I have first-hand direct
    knowledge that his reasoning is correct.

    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree with it,


    No, I independently verified his reasoning before I ever saw his
    reasoning.

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of
    understanding.


    His full quote is on page 6
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes Wittgenstein
    have the exact same view as mine:

        'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved
         in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system'
         means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's system.-

    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x)

    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or needs to be
    proved to be true.


    That no counter-examples can possibly exist is complete proof that
    it is true. There are no categories of expressions of language that
    are both true and neither stipulated as true or proven to be true
    (sound deduction) on the basis of semantic connections to other true
    expressions of language.

    WRONG. Again you conflate Analytic truth with truth.


    I am ALWAYS only talking about ANALYTIC TRUTH, the only time I ever
    talk about EMPIRICAL TRUTH, is to say that I am not talking about that.

    Then stop talking about things that aren't analytically true.

    For instance, Godel's G is NOT 'Analytically True' in F, because you
    can't prove it, but it IS 'True' because you can show via a meta-logical proof in a higher system that it actually is True.


    OK great this is a key agreement between us.

    Collatz Conjecture IS either True or False, but it may not be
    Analytically True or False until someone can prove or refute it.


    Analytically True or False is the same as True or False, except that is excludes expressions of language dealing with sense data from the sense
    organs.

    It is possible that it is True, but totally unprovable, at least in the systems it is definied in, so it can NEVER be "Analytically True", but
    it is still True, and the conjure has ALWAYS been a Truth Bearer.


    If it is true then there must be a connected set of semantic meanings
    proving that it is true otherwise it is not true.

    I don't think that it matters whether or not this connected set can be
    found, thus is still would exists even if it took an infinite search to
    find.

    The key point is that just because something isn't Analytically True, or Analytically refuted doesn't mean that the statement isn't a Truth Bearer.

    Note also, There are true statements that are neither Analytically True
    or Emperically True. Those are distinctions made in fields of KNOWLEDGE,
    and only relate to catagorizing KNOWN Truths, or KNOWLEDGE.
    Epistemology, as you seem to like describing what you are talking about
    ISN'T about studying Truth, but KNOWLEDGE. A proper student of the field understands the difference, but you don't seem to be able to do that.

    Epistemology does NOT define what is "True", only what is "Known". A
    Proper Epistemolist understand that there are things that are True that
    are outside knowledge.




    The Collatz conjecture, that there exist no number N such that the
    sequence of progreesing to 3N+1 for N odd, and N/2 for N even doesn't
    eventually reach 1, MUST be either True of False. There is no
    possible "non-answer", as math doesn't allow for such things.


    If the answer requires an infinite search then this answer cannot be
    derived in finite time. None-the-less there exists a connected set of
    semantic meanings that make it true or false even if they cannot be
    found in finite time.

    But a non-finite chain of reasoning is NOT considered a proof, at least
    by the normal definitions of a proof.


    I am referring to correct reasoning that differs somewhat from logic.

    --
    Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott

    "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
    Genius hits a target no one else can see."
    Arthur Schopenhauer

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Sat May 14 16:18:00 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.prolog

    On 5/14/22 1:25 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 11:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 11:32 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 9:59 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> concerned, so you
    better find another topic you don't know about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the correct >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> halt status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual behavior >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no algorithm >>>>>>>>>>>>>> can do what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code
    that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist such >>>>>>>>>>>>>> that D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I know, I >>>>>>>>>>>>>> know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this because you >>>>>>>>>>>> know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting.


    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden logical >>>>>>>>>>> incoherence, false assumptions, or very well hidden gaps in >>>>>>>>>>> their reasoning otherwise the fundamental nature of truth >>>>>>>>>>> itself is broken.


    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be inconsistent >>>>>>>>>> with the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then you >>>>>>>>>> need to strictly limit the capabilities of your logic system. >>>>>>>>>>
    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a century >>>>>>>>>> behind in the knowledge of how Truth and Logic actually works. >>>>>>>>>
    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth
    understanding of all of the subtle nuances of computer science. >>>>>>>>>
    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of how logic >>>>>>>>> systems systems sometimes diverge from correct reasoning when >>>>>>>>> examined at the very high level abstraction of the
    philosophical foundation of the notion of (analytic) truth itself. >>>>>>>>>
    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with mathematicians
    learned-by-rote by-the-book without the slightest inkling of >>>>>>>>> any of the key philosophical underpinnings of these things,
    simply taking for granted that they are all these underpinnings >>>>>>>>> are infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is totally >>>>>>>>> invisible to every learned-by-rote by-the-book mathematician. >>>>>>>>>

    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't make you
    right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly that
    century ago, to a man who admitted he didn't understand
    mathematics (and thought it not valuable)


    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far over
    everyone's head that they mistook his analysis for simplistic
    rather than most elegant bare essence.

    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not
    understanding what Godel actually said (because he hadn't read the >>>>>> paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field I have
    intensly studied), this statement is solely from private notes
    that were published after his death. If he really believed in this >>>>>> statement as was sure of it, it would seem natural that he
    actually would of published it.

    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that there was an >>>>>> error in his logic that he worked on and either never resolved or
    he found his logic error and thus stopped believing in that
    statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself shortly
    before I ever heard of Wittgenstein I have first-hand direct
    knowledge that his reasoning is correct.

    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree with it,


    No, I independently verified his reasoning before I ever saw his
    reasoning.

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of understanding. >>>>

    His full quote is on page 6
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes Wittgenstein
    have the exact same view as mine:

        'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved
         in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system'
         means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's system.-

    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x)

    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or needs to be
    proved to be true.


    That no counter-examples can possibly exist is complete proof that it
    is true. There are no categories of expressions of language that are
    both true and neither stipulated as true or proven to be true (sound
    deduction) on the basis of semantic connections to other true
    expressions of language.

    WRONG. Again you conflate Analytic truth with truth.


    I am ALWAYS only talking about ANALYTIC TRUTH, the only time I ever talk about EMPIRICAL TRUTH, is to say that I am not talking about that.

    Then stop talking about things that aren't analytically true.

    For instance, Godel's G is NOT 'Analytically True' in F, because you
    can't prove it, but it IS 'True' because you can show via a meta-logical
    proof in a higher system that it actually is True.

    Collatz Conjecture IS either True or False, but it may not be
    Analytically True or False until someone can prove or refute it.

    It is possible that it is True, but totally unprovable, at least in the
    systems it is definied in, so it can NEVER be "Analytically True", but
    it is still True, and the conjure has ALWAYS been a Truth Bearer.

    The key point is that just because something isn't Analytically True, or Analytically refuted doesn't mean that the statement isn't a Truth Bearer.

    Note also, There are true statements that are neither Analytically True
    or Emperically True. Those are distinctions made in fields of KNOWLEDGE,
    and only relate to catagorizing KNOWN Truths, or KNOWLEDGE.
    Epistemology, as you seem to like describing what you are talking about
    ISN'T about studying Truth, but KNOWLEDGE. A proper student of the field understands the difference, but you don't seem to be able to do that.

    Epistemology does NOT define what is "True", only what is "Known". A
    Proper Epistemolist understand that there are things that are True that
    are outside knowledge.




    The Collatz conjecture, that there exist no number N such that the
    sequence of progreesing to 3N+1 for N odd, and N/2 for N even doesn't
    eventually reach 1, MUST be either True of False. There is no possible
    "non-answer", as math doesn't allow for such things.


    If the answer requires an infinite search then this answer cannot be
    derived in finite time. None-the-less there exists a connected set of semantic meanings that make it true or false even if they cannot be
    found in finite time.

    But a non-finite chain of reasoning is NOT considered a proof, at least
    by the normal definitions of a proof.

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Sat May 14 17:15:19 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.prolog

    On 5/14/22 5:02 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 3:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 1:25 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 11:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 11:32 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 9:59 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> concerned, so you
    better find another topic you don't know about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the correct >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> halt status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual behavior >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no algorithm >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> can do what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code
    that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist such >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I know, I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this because you >>>>>>>>>>>>>> know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting.


    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden >>>>>>>>>>>>> logical incoherence, false assumptions, or very well hidden >>>>>>>>>>>>> gaps in their reasoning otherwise the fundamental nature of >>>>>>>>>>>>> truth itself is broken.


    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be inconsistent >>>>>>>>>>>> with the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then you >>>>>>>>>>>> need to strictly limit the capabilities of your logic system. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a century >>>>>>>>>>>> behind in the knowledge of how Truth and Logic actually works. >>>>>>>>>>>
    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth
    understanding of all of the subtle nuances of computer science. >>>>>>>>>>>
    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of how >>>>>>>>>>> logic systems systems sometimes diverge from correct
    reasoning when examined at the very high level abstraction of >>>>>>>>>>> the philosophical foundation of the notion of (analytic) >>>>>>>>>>> truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>> learned-by-rote by-the-book without the slightest inkling of >>>>>>>>>>> any of the key philosophical underpinnings of these things, >>>>>>>>>>> simply taking for granted that they are all these
    underpinnings are infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is totally >>>>>>>>>>> invisible to every learned-by-rote by-the-book mathematician. >>>>>>>>>>>

    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't make you >>>>>>>>>> right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly that >>>>>>>>>> century ago, to a man who admitted he didn't understand
    mathematics (and thought it not valuable)


    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far over
    everyone's head that they mistook his analysis for simplistic >>>>>>>>> rather than most elegant bare essence.

    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not
    understanding what Godel actually said (because he hadn't read >>>>>>>> the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field I have >>>>>>>> intensly studied), this statement is solely from private notes >>>>>>>> that were published after his death. If he really believed in
    this statement as was sure of it, it would seem natural that he >>>>>>>> actually would of published it.

    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that there was >>>>>>>> an error in his logic that he worked on and either never
    resolved or he found his logic error and thus stopped believing >>>>>>>> in that statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself shortly
    before I ever heard of Wittgenstein I have first-hand direct
    knowledge that his reasoning is correct.

    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree with it,


    No, I independently verified his reasoning before I ever saw his
    reasoning.

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of
    understanding.


    His full quote is on page 6
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes Wittgenstein
    have the exact same view as mine:

        'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved
         in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system'
         means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's system.- >>>>>>>
    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x)

    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or needs to be
    proved to be true.


    That no counter-examples can possibly exist is complete proof that
    it is true. There are no categories of expressions of language that
    are both true and neither stipulated as true or proven to be true
    (sound deduction) on the basis of semantic connections to other
    true expressions of language.

    WRONG. Again you conflate Analytic truth with truth.


    I am ALWAYS only talking about ANALYTIC TRUTH, the only time I ever
    talk about EMPIRICAL TRUTH, is to say that I am not talking about that.

    Then stop talking about things that aren't analytically true.

    For instance, Godel's G is NOT 'Analytically True' in F, because you
    can't prove it, but it IS 'True' because you can show via a
    meta-logical proof in a higher system that it actually is True.


    OK great this is a key agreement between us.

    Collatz Conjecture IS either True or False, but it may not be
    Analytically True or False until someone can prove or refute it.


    Analytically True or False is the same as True or False, except that is excludes expressions of language dealing with sense data from the sense organs.


    FALSE. Where is the Collatz conjecture being True in that? (If it is)

    It is possible that it is True, but totally unprovable, at least in
    the systems it is definied in, so it can NEVER be "Analytically True",
    but it is still True, and the conjure has ALWAYS been a Truth Bearer.


    If it is true then there must be a connected set of semantic meanings
    proving that it is true otherwise it is not true.

    I don't think that it matters whether or not this connected set can be
    found, thus is still would exists even if it took an infinite search to
    find.

    Unless you make the finite sequence from axioms to the result, you don't
    have a Proof.


    The key point is that just because something isn't Analytically True,
    or Analytically refuted doesn't mean that the statement isn't a Truth
    Bearer.

    Note also, There are true statements that are neither Analytically
    True or Emperically True. Those are distinctions made in fields of
    KNOWLEDGE, and only relate to catagorizing KNOWN Truths, or KNOWLEDGE.
    Epistemology, as you seem to like describing what you are talking
    about ISN'T about studying Truth, but KNOWLEDGE. A proper student of
    the field understands the difference, but you don't seem to be able to
    do that.

    Epistemology does NOT define what is "True", only what is "Known". A
    Proper Epistemolist understand that there are things that are True
    that are outside knowledge.




    The Collatz conjecture, that there exist no number N such that the
    sequence of progreesing to 3N+1 for N odd, and N/2 for N even
    doesn't eventually reach 1, MUST be either True of False. There is
    no possible "non-answer", as math doesn't allow for such things.


    If the answer requires an infinite search then this answer cannot be
    derived in finite time. None-the-less there exists a connected set of
    semantic meanings that make it true or false even if they cannot be
    found in finite time.

    But a non-finite chain of reasoning is NOT considered a proof, at
    least by the normal definitions of a proof.


    I am referring to correct reasoning that differs somewhat from logic.


    Then why are you talking about fields of LOGIC?

    Formal Logic STARTS with its definition of what is correct reasoning in
    that Formal System.

    You can not change that definition without needing to restart at the
    begining of that Formal System.

    I have pointed this out many times.

    If you want to change the ground rules of logic, you need to start at
    the other end, and begin with a NEW Formal Logic with your new rules.

    People HAVE looked at this idea of inserting the conditon that something
    is only True if it can be proven, and it greatly limits the power of the
    logic system, in particular, it can't handle much math.

    I get the feeling that you haven't really looked at that area, because
    it seems too much "learn by rote", and says you can't get to where you
    want to get to.

    In short, your ignorance of the past has doomed you to repeat the great mistakes of the past.

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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Sat May 14 16:48:28 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.prolog

    On 5/14/2022 4:15 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 5/14/22 5:02 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 3:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 1:25 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 11:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 11:32 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 9:59 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> concerned, so you
    better find another topic you don't know about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the correct >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> halt status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> behavior that this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> algorithm can do what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code
    that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist such >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I know, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this because >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting.


    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden >>>>>>>>>>>>>> logical incoherence, false assumptions, or very well >>>>>>>>>>>>>> hidden gaps in their reasoning otherwise the fundamental >>>>>>>>>>>>>> nature of truth itself is broken.


    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be inconsistent >>>>>>>>>>>>> with the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then you >>>>>>>>>>>>> need to strictly limit the capabilities of your logic system. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a >>>>>>>>>>>>> century behind in the knowledge of how Truth and Logic >>>>>>>>>>>>> actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth >>>>>>>>>>>> understanding of all of the subtle nuances of computer science. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of how >>>>>>>>>>>> logic systems systems sometimes diverge from correct
    reasoning when examined at the very high level abstraction >>>>>>>>>>>> of the philosophical foundation of the notion of (analytic) >>>>>>>>>>>> truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>> learned-by-rote by-the-book without the slightest inkling of >>>>>>>>>>>> any of the key philosophical underpinnings of these things, >>>>>>>>>>>> simply taking for granted that they are all these
    underpinnings are infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is totally >>>>>>>>>>>> invisible to every learned-by-rote by-the-book mathematician. >>>>>>>>>>>>

    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't make you >>>>>>>>>>> right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly that >>>>>>>>>>> century ago, to a man who admitted he didn't understand
    mathematics (and thought it not valuable)


    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far over >>>>>>>>>> everyone's head that they mistook his analysis for simplistic >>>>>>>>>> rather than most elegant bare essence.

    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not
    understanding what Godel actually said (because he hadn't read >>>>>>>>> the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field I have >>>>>>>>> intensly studied), this statement is solely from private notes >>>>>>>>> that were published after his death. If he really believed in >>>>>>>>> this statement as was sure of it, it would seem natural that he >>>>>>>>> actually would of published it.

    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that there was >>>>>>>>> an error in his logic that he worked on and either never
    resolved or he found his logic error and thus stopped believing >>>>>>>>> in that statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself shortly
    before I ever heard of Wittgenstein I have first-hand direct
    knowledge that his reasoning is correct.

    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree with it, >>>>>>>

    No, I independently verified his reasoning before I ever saw his
    reasoning.

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of
    understanding.


    His full quote is on page 6
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes Wittgenstein >>>>>>>> have the exact same view as mine:

        'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved
         in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system'
         means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's system.- >>>>>>>>
    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x)

    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or needs to be
    proved to be true.


    That no counter-examples can possibly exist is complete proof that >>>>>> it is true. There are no categories of expressions of language
    that are both true and neither stipulated as true or proven to be
    true (sound deduction) on the basis of semantic connections to
    other true expressions of language.

    WRONG. Again you conflate Analytic truth with truth.


    I am ALWAYS only talking about ANALYTIC TRUTH, the only time I ever
    talk about EMPIRICAL TRUTH, is to say that I am not talking about that. >>>
    Then stop talking about things that aren't analytically true.

    For instance, Godel's G is NOT 'Analytically True' in F, because you
    can't prove it, but it IS 'True' because you can show via a
    meta-logical proof in a higher system that it actually is True.


    OK great this is a key agreement between us.

    Collatz Conjecture IS either True or False, but it may not be
    Analytically True or False until someone can prove or refute it.


    Analytically True or False is the same as True or False, except that
    is excludes expressions of language dealing with sense data from the
    sense organs.


    FALSE. Where is the Collatz conjecture being True in that? (If it is)

    It is possible that it is True, but totally unprovable, at least in
    the systems it is definied in, so it can NEVER be "Analytically
    True", but it is still True, and the conjure has ALWAYS been a Truth
    Bearer.


    If it is true then there must be a connected set of semantic meanings
    proving that it is true otherwise it is not true.

    I don't think that it matters whether or not this connected set can be
    found, thus is still would exists even if it took an infinite search
    to find.

    Unless you make the finite sequence from axioms to the result, you don't
    have a Proof.


    So this is where correct reasoning and logic diverge on terminology.
    When I refer to a set of connected semantic meanings this seems not
    exactly the same thing as a proof. If this set does not exist, then the expression is not true. If the set exists yet is impossible to find then
    it is still true.


    The key point is that just because something isn't Analytically True,
    or Analytically refuted doesn't mean that the statement isn't a Truth
    Bearer.

    Note also, There are true statements that are neither Analytically
    True or Emperically True. Those are distinctions made in fields of
    KNOWLEDGE, and only relate to catagorizing KNOWN Truths, or
    KNOWLEDGE. Epistemology, as you seem to like describing what you are
    talking about ISN'T about studying Truth, but KNOWLEDGE. A proper
    student of the field understands the difference, but you don't seem
    to be able to do that.

    Epistemology does NOT define what is "True", only what is "Known". A
    Proper Epistemolist understand that there are things that are True
    that are outside knowledge.




    The Collatz conjecture, that there exist no number N such that the
    sequence of progreesing to 3N+1 for N odd, and N/2 for N even
    doesn't eventually reach 1, MUST be either True of False. There is
    no possible "non-answer", as math doesn't allow for such things.


    If the answer requires an infinite search then this answer cannot be
    derived in finite time. None-the-less there exists a connected set
    of semantic meanings that make it true or false even if they cannot
    be found in finite time.

    But a non-finite chain of reasoning is NOT considered a proof, at
    least by the normal definitions of a proof.


    I am referring to correct reasoning that differs somewhat from logic.


    Then why are you talking about fields of LOGIC?

    So that I can correct its mistakes. It has mistakes (incoherence and inconsistency) baked right into the definitions of its terms of the art.


    Formal Logic STARTS with its definition of what is correct reasoning in
    that Formal System.

    You can not change that definition without needing to restart at the
    begining of that Formal System.

    I have pointed this out many times.

    If you want to change the ground rules of logic, you need to start at
    the other end, and begin with a NEW Formal Logic with your new rules.


    Same idea as logic, created to correct the errors of logic.

    People HAVE looked at this idea of inserting the conditon that something
    is only True if it can be proven, and it greatly limits the power of the logic system, in particular, it can't handle much math.

    I get the feeling that you haven't really looked at that area, because
    it seems too much "learn by rote", and says you can't get to where you
    want to get to.


    Logic has mistakes (incoherence and inconsistency) baked right into the definitions of its terms of the art. When we contrast logic with correct reasoning then we might see that these are mistakes.

    In short, your ignorance of the past has doomed you to repeat the great mistakes of the past.


    --
    Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott

    "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
    Genius hits a target no one else can see."
    Arthur Schopenhauer

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Sat May 14 18:50:27 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.prolog

    On 5/14/22 5:48 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 4:15 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 5/14/22 5:02 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 3:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 1:25 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 11:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 11:32 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 9:59 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> concerned, so you
    better find another topic you don't know about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correct halt status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> behavior that this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> algorithm can do what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code
    that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> such that D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I know, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this because >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logical incoherence, false assumptions, or very well >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hidden gaps in their reasoning otherwise the fundamental >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nature of truth itself is broken.


    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be
    inconsistent with the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then >>>>>>>>>>>>>> you need to strictly limit the capabilities of your logic >>>>>>>>>>>>>> system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> century behind in the knowledge of how Truth and Logic >>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth >>>>>>>>>>>>> understanding of all of the subtle nuances of computer >>>>>>>>>>>>> science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of how >>>>>>>>>>>>> logic systems systems sometimes diverge from correct >>>>>>>>>>>>> reasoning when examined at the very high level abstraction >>>>>>>>>>>>> of the philosophical foundation of the notion of (analytic) >>>>>>>>>>>>> truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>> learned-by-rote by-the-book without the slightest inkling >>>>>>>>>>>>> of any of the key philosophical underpinnings of these >>>>>>>>>>>>> things, simply taking for granted that they are all these >>>>>>>>>>>>> underpinnings are infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is >>>>>>>>>>>>> totally invisible to every learned-by-rote by-the-book >>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't make >>>>>>>>>>>> you right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly >>>>>>>>>>>> that century ago, to a man who admitted he didn't understand >>>>>>>>>>>> mathematics (and thought it not valuable)


    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far over >>>>>>>>>>> everyone's head that they mistook his analysis for simplistic >>>>>>>>>>> rather than most elegant bare essence.

    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not
    understanding what Godel actually said (because he hadn't read >>>>>>>>>> the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field I have >>>>>>>>>> intensly studied), this statement is solely from private notes >>>>>>>>>> that were published after his death. If he really believed in >>>>>>>>>> this statement as was sure of it, it would seem natural that >>>>>>>>>> he actually would of published it.

    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that there >>>>>>>>>> was an error in his logic that he worked on and either never >>>>>>>>>> resolved or he found his logic error and thus stopped
    believing in that statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself shortly >>>>>>>>> before I ever heard of Wittgenstein I have first-hand direct >>>>>>>>> knowledge that his reasoning is correct.

    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree with it, >>>>>>>>

    No, I independently verified his reasoning before I ever saw his >>>>>>> reasoning.

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of
    understanding.


    His full quote is on page 6
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes Wittgenstein >>>>>>>>> have the exact same view as mine:

        'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved >>>>>>>>>      in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system' >>>>>>>>>      means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's system.- >>>>>>>>>
    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x)

    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or needs to be >>>>>>>> proved to be true.


    That no counter-examples can possibly exist is complete proof
    that it is true. There are no categories of expressions of
    language that are both true and neither stipulated as true or
    proven to be true (sound deduction) on the basis of semantic
    connections to other true expressions of language.

    WRONG. Again you conflate Analytic truth with truth.


    I am ALWAYS only talking about ANALYTIC TRUTH, the only time I ever
    talk about EMPIRICAL TRUTH, is to say that I am not talking about
    that.

    Then stop talking about things that aren't analytically true.

    For instance, Godel's G is NOT 'Analytically True' in F, because you
    can't prove it, but it IS 'True' because you can show via a
    meta-logical proof in a higher system that it actually is True.


    OK great this is a key agreement between us.

    Collatz Conjecture IS either True or False, but it may not be
    Analytically True or False until someone can prove or refute it.


    Analytically True or False is the same as True or False, except that
    is excludes expressions of language dealing with sense data from the
    sense organs.


    FALSE. Where is the Collatz conjecture being True in that? (If it is)

    It is possible that it is True, but totally unprovable, at least in
    the systems it is definied in, so it can NEVER be "Analytically
    True", but it is still True, and the conjure has ALWAYS been a Truth
    Bearer.


    If it is true then there must be a connected set of semantic meanings
    proving that it is true otherwise it is not true.

    I don't think that it matters whether or not this connected set can
    be found, thus is still would exists even if it took an infinite
    search to find.

    Unless you make the finite sequence from axioms to the result, you
    don't have a Proof.


    So this is where correct reasoning and logic diverge on terminology.
    When I refer to a set of connected semantic meanings this seems not
    exactly the same thing as a proof. If this set does not exist, then the expression is not true. If the set exists yet is impossible to find then
    it is still true.

    So something can be "Provable" yet no "Proof" actually be findable or expressable?

    That means you might not know if you have Proven Something.



    The key point is that just because something isn't Analytically
    True, or Analytically refuted doesn't mean that the statement isn't
    a Truth Bearer.

    Note also, There are true statements that are neither Analytically
    True or Emperically True. Those are distinctions made in fields of
    KNOWLEDGE, and only relate to catagorizing KNOWN Truths, or
    KNOWLEDGE. Epistemology, as you seem to like describing what you are
    talking about ISN'T about studying Truth, but KNOWLEDGE. A proper
    student of the field understands the difference, but you don't seem
    to be able to do that.

    Epistemology does NOT define what is "True", only what is "Known". A
    Proper Epistemolist understand that there are things that are True
    that are outside knowledge.




    The Collatz conjecture, that there exist no number N such that the >>>>>> sequence of progreesing to 3N+1 for N odd, and N/2 for N even
    doesn't eventually reach 1, MUST be either True of False. There is >>>>>> no possible "non-answer", as math doesn't allow for such things.


    If the answer requires an infinite search then this answer cannot
    be derived in finite time. None-the-less there exists a connected
    set of semantic meanings that make it true or false even if they
    cannot be found in finite time.

    But a non-finite chain of reasoning is NOT considered a proof, at
    least by the normal definitions of a proof.


    I am referring to correct reasoning that differs somewhat from logic.


    Then why are you talking about fields of LOGIC?

    So that I can correct its mistakes. It has mistakes (incoherence and inconsistency) baked right into the definitions of its terms of the art.

    So, again, your are at the wrong end. If you want to change the
    fundamental definitions, you need to be talking about the Core Logic
    rules that you think need to be changed, not try to change them in a
    derived logic system, when such a change is NOT allowed.



    Formal Logic STARTS with its definition of what is correct reasoning
    in that Formal System.

    You can not change that definition without needing to restart at the
    begining of that Formal System.

    I have pointed this out many times.

    If you want to change the ground rules of logic, you need to start at
    the other end, and begin with a NEW Formal Logic with your new rules.


    Same idea as logic, created to correct the errors of logic.

    So start with your new logic system and see what you can get to in your
    limited time left, Sounds like you have wasted decades of time by
    working at the wrong end of the stick.


    People HAVE looked at this idea of inserting the conditon that
    something is only True if it can be proven, and it greatly limits the
    power of the logic system, in particular, it can't handle much math.

    I get the feeling that you haven't really looked at that area, because
    it seems too much "learn by rote", and says you can't get to where you
    want to get to.


    Logic has mistakes (incoherence and inconsistency) baked right into the definitions of its terms of the art. When we contrast logic with correct reasoning then we might see that these are mistakes.

    So YOU say. Then start at the base and see how far you can get based on
    your new idea.

    Probably only a few decades of work for someone who knows what they are
    doing.

    Starting at the wrong end is like trying to stop a mile long freight
    train by dragging a bucket out the back of the caboose.


    In short, your ignorance of the past has doomed you to repeat the
    great mistakes of the past.



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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Sat May 14 18:21:04 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.prolog

    On 5/14/2022 5:50 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 5:48 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 4:15 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 5/14/22 5:02 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 3:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 1:25 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 11:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 11:32 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 9:59 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> concerned, so you
    better find another topic you don't know about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correct halt status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> behavior that this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> algorithm can do what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> such that D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> know, I know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this because >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logical incoherence, false assumptions, or very well >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hidden gaps in their reasoning otherwise the fundamental >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nature of truth itself is broken.


    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be
    inconsistent with the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you need to strictly limit the capabilities of your logic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> century behind in the knowledge of how Truth and Logic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth >>>>>>>>>>>>>> understanding of all of the subtle nuances of computer >>>>>>>>>>>>>> science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of how >>>>>>>>>>>>>> logic systems systems sometimes diverge from correct >>>>>>>>>>>>>> reasoning when examined at the very high level abstraction >>>>>>>>>>>>>> of the philosophical foundation of the notion of
    (analytic) truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>> learned-by-rote by-the-book without the slightest inkling >>>>>>>>>>>>>> of any of the key philosophical underpinnings of these >>>>>>>>>>>>>> things, simply taking for granted that they are all these >>>>>>>>>>>>>> underpinnings are infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is >>>>>>>>>>>>>> totally invisible to every learned-by-rote by-the-book >>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't make >>>>>>>>>>>>> you right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly >>>>>>>>>>>>> that century ago, to a man who admitted he didn't
    understand mathematics (and thought it not valuable) >>>>>>>>>>>>>

    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far over >>>>>>>>>>>> everyone's head that they mistook his analysis for
    simplistic rather than most elegant bare essence.

    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not
    understanding what Godel actually said (because he hadn't >>>>>>>>>>> read the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field I >>>>>>>>>>> have intensly studied), this statement is solely from private >>>>>>>>>>> notes that were published after his death. If he really
    believed in this statement as was sure of it, it would seem >>>>>>>>>>> natural that he actually would of published it.

    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that there >>>>>>>>>>> was an error in his logic that he worked on and either never >>>>>>>>>>> resolved or he found his logic error and thus stopped
    believing in that statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself shortly >>>>>>>>>> before I ever heard of Wittgenstein I have first-hand direct >>>>>>>>>> knowledge that his reasoning is correct.

    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree with it, >>>>>>>>>

    No, I independently verified his reasoning before I ever saw his >>>>>>>> reasoning.

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of
    understanding.


    His full quote is on page 6
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes
    Wittgenstein have the exact same view as mine:

        'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved >>>>>>>>>>      in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system' >>>>>>>>>>      means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's system.- >>>>>>>>>>
    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x)

    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or needs to be >>>>>>>>> proved to be true.


    That no counter-examples can possibly exist is complete proof
    that it is true. There are no categories of expressions of
    language that are both true and neither stipulated as true or
    proven to be true (sound deduction) on the basis of semantic
    connections to other true expressions of language.

    WRONG. Again you conflate Analytic truth with truth.


    I am ALWAYS only talking about ANALYTIC TRUTH, the only time I
    ever talk about EMPIRICAL TRUTH, is to say that I am not talking
    about that.

    Then stop talking about things that aren't analytically true.

    For instance, Godel's G is NOT 'Analytically True' in F, because
    you can't prove it, but it IS 'True' because you can show via a
    meta-logical proof in a higher system that it actually is True.


    OK great this is a key agreement between us.

    Collatz Conjecture IS either True or False, but it may not be
    Analytically True or False until someone can prove or refute it.


    Analytically True or False is the same as True or False, except that
    is excludes expressions of language dealing with sense data from the
    sense organs.


    FALSE. Where is the Collatz conjecture being True in that? (If it is)

    It is possible that it is True, but totally unprovable, at least in
    the systems it is definied in, so it can NEVER be "Analytically
    True", but it is still True, and the conjure has ALWAYS been a
    Truth Bearer.


    If it is true then there must be a connected set of semantic
    meanings proving that it is true otherwise it is not true.

    I don't think that it matters whether or not this connected set can
    be found, thus is still would exists even if it took an infinite
    search to find.

    Unless you make the finite sequence from axioms to the result, you
    don't have a Proof.


    So this is where correct reasoning and logic diverge on terminology.
    When I refer to a set of connected semantic meanings this seems not
    exactly the same thing as a proof. If this set does not exist, then
    the expression is not true. If the set exists yet is impossible to
    find then it is still true.

    So something can be "Provable" yet no "Proof" actually be findable or expressable?

    That means you might not know if you have Proven Something.



    The key point is that just because something isn't Analytically
    True, or Analytically refuted doesn't mean that the statement isn't
    a Truth Bearer.

    Note also, There are true statements that are neither Analytically
    True or Emperically True. Those are distinctions made in fields of
    KNOWLEDGE, and only relate to catagorizing KNOWN Truths, or
    KNOWLEDGE. Epistemology, as you seem to like describing what you
    are talking about ISN'T about studying Truth, but KNOWLEDGE. A
    proper student of the field understands the difference, but you
    don't seem to be able to do that.

    Epistemology does NOT define what is "True", only what is "Known".
    A Proper Epistemolist understand that there are things that are
    True that are outside knowledge.




    The Collatz conjecture, that there exist no number N such that
    the sequence of progreesing to 3N+1 for N odd, and N/2 for N even >>>>>>> doesn't eventually reach 1, MUST be either True of False. There
    is no possible "non-answer", as math doesn't allow for such things. >>>>>>>

    If the answer requires an infinite search then this answer cannot
    be derived in finite time. None-the-less there exists a connected
    set of semantic meanings that make it true or false even if they
    cannot be found in finite time.

    But a non-finite chain of reasoning is NOT considered a proof, at
    least by the normal definitions of a proof.


    I am referring to correct reasoning that differs somewhat from logic.


    Then why are you talking about fields of LOGIC?

    So that I can correct its mistakes. It has mistakes (incoherence and
    inconsistency) baked right into the definitions of its terms of the art.

    So, again, your are at the wrong end. If you want to change the
    fundamental definitions, you need to be talking about the Core Logic
    rules that you think need to be changed, not try to change them in a
    derived logic system, when such a change is NOT allowed.

    We cannot correctly label any analytical expression of language as true
    unless and until:
    (1) It has been stipulated to be true.

    (2) a connected set of semantic meanings back-chain to expressions of
    language that have been stipulated to be true.
    This is the same system that Prolog uses.

    The reason that I keep referring to the Tarski proof is it essentially
    the exact same proof Gödel after Gödel has been simplified 100,000-fold. https://liarparadox.org/Tarski_275_276.pdf

    Tarski simply uses the liar paradox which

    Gödel says:
    14 Every epistemological antinomy can likewise be used for a similar undecidability proof

    Thus making Tarski's simpler proof equivalent to Gödel's, even though
    Tarski's whole proof is only two pages long.



    Formal Logic STARTS with its definition of what is correct reasoning
    in that Formal System.

    You can not change that definition without needing to restart at the
    begining of that Formal System.

    I have pointed this out many times.

    If you want to change the ground rules of logic, you need to start at
    the other end, and begin with a NEW Formal Logic with your new rules.


    Same idea as logic, created to correct the errors of logic.

    So start with your new logic system and see what you can get to in your limited time left, Sounds like you have wasted decades of time by
    working at the wrong end of the stick.


    People HAVE looked at this idea of inserting the conditon that
    something is only True if it can be proven, and it greatly limits the
    power of the logic system, in particular, it can't handle much math.

    I get the feeling that you haven't really looked at that area,
    because it seems too much "learn by rote", and says you can't get to
    where you want to get to.


    Logic has mistakes (incoherence and inconsistency) baked right into
    the definitions of its terms of the art. When we contrast logic with
    correct reasoning then we might see that these are mistakes.

    So YOU say. Then start at the base and see how far you can get based on
    your new idea.


    I started this "new idea" in 1997.

    Probably only a few decades of work for someone who knows what they are doing.

    Starting at the wrong end is like trying to stop a mile long freight
    train by dragging a bucket out the back of the caboose.


    In short, your ignorance of the past has doomed you to repeat the
    great mistakes of the past.





    --
    Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott

    "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
    Genius hits a target no one else can see."
    Arthur Schopenhauer

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Sat May 14 19:52:02 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.prolog

    On 5/14/22 7:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 5:50 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 5:48 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 4:15 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 5/14/22 5:02 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 3:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 1:25 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 11:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 11:32 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 9:59 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is concerned, so you
    better find another topic you don't know about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correct halt status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> behavior that this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> algorithm can do what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> such that D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> know, I know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this because >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logical incoherence, false assumptions, or very well >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hidden gaps in their reasoning otherwise the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fundamental nature of truth itself is broken. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inconsistent with the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you need to strictly limit the capabilities of your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logic system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> century behind in the knowledge of how Truth and Logic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understanding of all of the subtle nuances of computer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of how >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logic systems systems sometimes diverge from correct >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reasoning when examined at the very high level
    abstraction of the philosophical foundation of the notion >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of (analytic) truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> learned-by-rote by-the-book without the slightest inkling >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of any of the key philosophical underpinnings of these >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> things, simply taking for granted that they are all these >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> underpinnings are infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> totally invisible to every learned-by-rote by-the-book >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't make >>>>>>>>>>>>>> you right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly >>>>>>>>>>>>>> that century ago, to a man who admitted he didn't
    understand mathematics (and thought it not valuable) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far over >>>>>>>>>>>>> everyone's head that they mistook his analysis for
    simplistic rather than most elegant bare essence.

    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not
    understanding what Godel actually said (because he hadn't >>>>>>>>>>>> read the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field I >>>>>>>>>>>> have intensly studied), this statement is solely from
    private notes that were published after his death. If he >>>>>>>>>>>> really believed in this statement as was sure of it, it >>>>>>>>>>>> would seem natural that he actually would of published it. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that there >>>>>>>>>>>> was an error in his logic that he worked on and either never >>>>>>>>>>>> resolved or he found his logic error and thus stopped
    believing in that statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself shortly >>>>>>>>>>> before I ever heard of Wittgenstein I have first-hand direct >>>>>>>>>>> knowledge that his reasoning is correct.

    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree with it, >>>>>>>>>>

    No, I independently verified his reasoning before I ever saw >>>>>>>>> his reasoning.

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of
    understanding.


    His full quote is on page 6
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes
    Wittgenstein have the exact same view as mine:

        'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved >>>>>>>>>>>      in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system' >>>>>>>>>>>      means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's system.- >>>>>>>>>>>
    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x)

    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or needs to >>>>>>>>>> be proved to be true.


    That no counter-examples can possibly exist is complete proof >>>>>>>>> that it is true. There are no categories of expressions of
    language that are both true and neither stipulated as true or >>>>>>>>> proven to be true (sound deduction) on the basis of semantic >>>>>>>>> connections to other true expressions of language.

    WRONG. Again you conflate Analytic truth with truth.


    I am ALWAYS only talking about ANALYTIC TRUTH, the only time I
    ever talk about EMPIRICAL TRUTH, is to say that I am not talking >>>>>>> about that.

    Then stop talking about things that aren't analytically true.

    For instance, Godel's G is NOT 'Analytically True' in F, because
    you can't prove it, but it IS 'True' because you can show via a
    meta-logical proof in a higher system that it actually is True.


    OK great this is a key agreement between us.

    Collatz Conjecture IS either True or False, but it may not be
    Analytically True or False until someone can prove or refute it.


    Analytically True or False is the same as True or False, except
    that is excludes expressions of language dealing with sense data
    from the sense organs.


    FALSE. Where is the Collatz conjecture being True in that? (If it is)

    It is possible that it is True, but totally unprovable, at least
    in the systems it is definied in, so it can NEVER be "Analytically >>>>>> True", but it is still True, and the conjure has ALWAYS been a
    Truth Bearer.


    If it is true then there must be a connected set of semantic
    meanings proving that it is true otherwise it is not true.

    I don't think that it matters whether or not this connected set can
    be found, thus is still would exists even if it took an infinite
    search to find.

    Unless you make the finite sequence from axioms to the result, you
    don't have a Proof.


    So this is where correct reasoning and logic diverge on terminology.
    When I refer to a set of connected semantic meanings this seems not
    exactly the same thing as a proof. If this set does not exist, then
    the expression is not true. If the set exists yet is impossible to
    find then it is still true.

    So something can be "Provable" yet no "Proof" actually be findable or
    expressable?

    That means you might not know if you have Proven Something.



    The key point is that just because something isn't Analytically
    True, or Analytically refuted doesn't mean that the statement
    isn't a Truth Bearer.

    Note also, There are true statements that are neither Analytically >>>>>> True or Emperically True. Those are distinctions made in fields of >>>>>> KNOWLEDGE, and only relate to catagorizing KNOWN Truths, or
    KNOWLEDGE. Epistemology, as you seem to like describing what you
    are talking about ISN'T about studying Truth, but KNOWLEDGE. A
    proper student of the field understands the difference, but you
    don't seem to be able to do that.

    Epistemology does NOT define what is "True", only what is "Known". >>>>>> A Proper Epistemolist understand that there are things that are
    True that are outside knowledge.




    The Collatz conjecture, that there exist no number N such that >>>>>>>> the sequence of progreesing to 3N+1 for N odd, and N/2 for N
    even doesn't eventually reach 1, MUST be either True of False. >>>>>>>> There is no possible "non-answer", as math doesn't allow for
    such things.


    If the answer requires an infinite search then this answer cannot >>>>>>> be derived in finite time. None-the-less there exists a connected >>>>>>> set of semantic meanings that make it true or false even if they >>>>>>> cannot be found in finite time.

    But a non-finite chain of reasoning is NOT considered a proof, at
    least by the normal definitions of a proof.


    I am referring to correct reasoning that differs somewhat from logic. >>>>>

    Then why are you talking about fields of LOGIC?

    So that I can correct its mistakes. It has mistakes (incoherence and
    inconsistency) baked right into the definitions of its terms of the art.

    So, again, your are at the wrong end. If you want to change the
    fundamental definitions, you need to be talking about the Core Logic
    rules that you think need to be changed, not try to change them in a
    derived logic system, when such a change is NOT allowed.

    We cannot correctly label any analytical expression of language as true unless and until:
    (1) It has been stipulated to be true.

    (2) a connected set of semantic meanings back-chain to expressions of language that have been stipulated to be true.
    This is the same system that Prolog uses.

    Source for this "Claim". It can not be labeld "Analytically True", yes,
    but nothing says it can not be True. (If we can't prove it True we can
    not use it to actually directly prove something else, but it can be True).

    You seem to be saying that the Collatz conjecture can not have a Truth
    Value, because it has not been proven, even though it can be proven that
    it must be either True of False?

    This is where you claim of working only with "Analytic Truth" breaks
    down, because you use statement that only apply to analytic truths to
    apply to all truths, and thus you actually LIE.

    Until you can actually PROVE that statement (that the analytic statement
    can not be "True" (refering to Truth in General) then your are just
    LYING in your claims and being a Hypocrit, as you claim the only Truths
    you can use are Analytically True, and thus Provable, without actually
    Proving your statement.

    The reason that I keep referring to the Tarski proof is it essentially
    the exact same proof Gödel after Gödel has been simplified 100,000-fold. https://liarparadox.org/Tarski_275_276.pdf

    Tarski simply uses the liar paradox which

    Gödel says:
    14 Every epistemological antinomy can likewise be used for a similar undecidability proof

    Thus making Tarski's simpler proof equivalent to Gödel's, even though Tarski's whole proof is only two pages long.

    And you again assume that True -> Provable which it does not.

    Note, Tarski specific restricts himself to field that support
    Arithmatic, and it has been proven that such a field does NOT support
    the concept that True -> Provable without becoming inconsistent.

    The fact that you ignore the incosistancies shows you lack of
    understanding of logic.




    Formal Logic STARTS with its definition of what is correct reasoning
    in that Formal System.

    You can not change that definition without needing to restart at the
    begining of that Formal System.

    I have pointed this out many times.

    If you want to change the ground rules of logic, you need to start
    at the other end, and begin with a NEW Formal Logic with your new
    rules.


    Same idea as logic, created to correct the errors of logic.

    So start with your new logic system and see what you can get to in
    your limited time left, Sounds like you have wasted decades of time by
    working at the wrong end of the stick.


    People HAVE looked at this idea of inserting the conditon that
    something is only True if it can be proven, and it greatly limits
    the power of the logic system, in particular, it can't handle much
    math.

    I get the feeling that you haven't really looked at that area,
    because it seems too much "learn by rote", and says you can't get to
    where you want to get to.


    Logic has mistakes (incoherence and inconsistency) baked right into
    the definitions of its terms of the art. When we contrast logic with
    correct reasoning then we might see that these are mistakes.

    So YOU say. Then start at the base and see how far you can get based
    on your new idea.


    I started this "new idea" in 1997.

    So what have you done with it? What basic laws of logic have you shown
    still hold and which don't?

    Have you gotten anywhere near trying to support math under your system?

    This is the area that you might be able to make productive work with a
    paper, assuming you actually HAVE some new idea that isn't just one of
    the old tired theories that either dead ended or created some know
    limited logic system.

    My first guess is that you haven't studied enough of the work in this
    field to even know if your idea is really new, as you keep running into
    the same traps that they did a century ago, so you obviously haven't
    learned from them. (But of course, they Learned-By-Rote what can't work,
    so aren't useful to study).


    Probably only a few decades of work for someone who knows what they
    are doing.

    Starting at the wrong end is like trying to stop a mile long freight
    train by dragging a bucket out the back of the caboose.


    In short, your ignorance of the past has doomed you to repeat the
    great mistakes of the past.






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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Sat May 14 23:07:23 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.prolog

    On 5/14/2022 6:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 7:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 5:50 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 5:48 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 4:15 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 5/14/22 5:02 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 3:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 1:25 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 11:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 11:32 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 9:59 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is concerned, so you
    better find another topic you don't know about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correct halt status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> behavior that this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> algorithm can do what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> such that D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false otherwise. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> know, I know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because you know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logical incoherence, false assumptions, or very well >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hidden gaps in their reasoning otherwise the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fundamental nature of truth itself is broken. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inconsistent with the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, then >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you need to strictly limit the capabilities of your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logic system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> century behind in the knowledge of how Truth and Logic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understanding of all of the subtle nuances of computer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> how logic systems systems sometimes diverge from correct >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reasoning when examined at the very high level >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> abstraction of the philosophical foundation of the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> notion of (analytic) truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with
    mathematicians learned-by-rote by-the-book without the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> slightest inkling of any of the key philosophical >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> underpinnings of these things, simply taking for granted >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that they are all these underpinnings are infallibly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> totally invisible to every learned-by-rote by-the-book >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't make >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that century ago, to a man who admitted he didn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand mathematics (and thought it not valuable) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far over >>>>>>>>>>>>>> everyone's head that they mistook his analysis for >>>>>>>>>>>>>> simplistic rather than most elegant bare essence.

    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not >>>>>>>>>>>>> understanding what Godel actually said (because he hadn't >>>>>>>>>>>>> read the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field I >>>>>>>>>>>>> have intensly studied), this statement is solely from >>>>>>>>>>>>> private notes that were published after his death. If he >>>>>>>>>>>>> really believed in this statement as was sure of it, it >>>>>>>>>>>>> would seem natural that he actually would of published it. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that there >>>>>>>>>>>>> was an error in his logic that he worked on and either >>>>>>>>>>>>> never resolved or he found his logic error and thus stopped >>>>>>>>>>>>> believing in that statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself
    shortly before I ever heard of Wittgenstein I have
    first-hand direct knowledge that his reasoning is correct. >>>>>>>>>>>
    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree with >>>>>>>>>>> it,


    No, I independently verified his reasoning before I ever saw >>>>>>>>>> his reasoning.

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of >>>>>>>>>>> understanding.


    His full quote is on page 6
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes
    Wittgenstein have the exact same view as mine:

        'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved >>>>>>>>>>>>      in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system' >>>>>>>>>>>>      means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's system.- >>>>>>>>>>>>
    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x)

    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or needs to >>>>>>>>>>> be proved to be true.


    That no counter-examples can possibly exist is complete proof >>>>>>>>>> that it is true. There are no categories of expressions of >>>>>>>>>> language that are both true and neither stipulated as true or >>>>>>>>>> proven to be true (sound deduction) on the basis of semantic >>>>>>>>>> connections to other true expressions of language.

    WRONG. Again you conflate Analytic truth with truth.


    I am ALWAYS only talking about ANALYTIC TRUTH, the only time I >>>>>>>> ever talk about EMPIRICAL TRUTH, is to say that I am not talking >>>>>>>> about that.

    Then stop talking about things that aren't analytically true.

    For instance, Godel's G is NOT 'Analytically True' in F, because >>>>>>> you can't prove it, but it IS 'True' because you can show via a
    meta-logical proof in a higher system that it actually is True.


    OK great this is a key agreement between us.

    Collatz Conjecture IS either True or False, but it may not be
    Analytically True or False until someone can prove or refute it. >>>>>>>

    Analytically True or False is the same as True or False, except
    that is excludes expressions of language dealing with sense data
    from the sense organs.


    FALSE. Where is the Collatz conjecture being True in that? (If it is) >>>>>
    It is possible that it is True, but totally unprovable, at least >>>>>>> in the systems it is definied in, so it can NEVER be
    "Analytically True", but it is still True, and the conjure has
    ALWAYS been a Truth Bearer.


    If it is true then there must be a connected set of semantic
    meanings proving that it is true otherwise it is not true.

    I don't think that it matters whether or not this connected set
    can be found, thus is still would exists even if it took an
    infinite search to find.

    Unless you make the finite sequence from axioms to the result, you
    don't have a Proof.


    So this is where correct reasoning and logic diverge on terminology.
    When I refer to a set of connected semantic meanings this seems not
    exactly the same thing as a proof. If this set does not exist, then
    the expression is not true. If the set exists yet is impossible to
    find then it is still true.

    So something can be "Provable" yet no "Proof" actually be findable or
    expressable?

    That means you might not know if you have Proven Something.



    The key point is that just because something isn't Analytically
    True, or Analytically refuted doesn't mean that the statement
    isn't a Truth Bearer.

    Note also, There are true statements that are neither
    Analytically True or Emperically True. Those are distinctions
    made in fields of KNOWLEDGE, and only relate to catagorizing
    KNOWN Truths, or KNOWLEDGE. Epistemology, as you seem to like
    describing what you are talking about ISN'T about studying Truth, >>>>>>> but KNOWLEDGE. A proper student of the field understands the
    difference, but you don't seem to be able to do that.

    Epistemology does NOT define what is "True", only what is
    "Known". A Proper Epistemolist understand that there are things
    that are True that are outside knowledge.




    The Collatz conjecture, that there exist no number N such that >>>>>>>>> the sequence of progreesing to 3N+1 for N odd, and N/2 for N >>>>>>>>> even doesn't eventually reach 1, MUST be either True of False. >>>>>>>>> There is no possible "non-answer", as math doesn't allow for >>>>>>>>> such things.


    If the answer requires an infinite search then this answer
    cannot be derived in finite time. None-the-less there exists a >>>>>>>> connected set of semantic meanings that make it true or false
    even if they cannot be found in finite time.

    But a non-finite chain of reasoning is NOT considered a proof, at >>>>>>> least by the normal definitions of a proof.


    I am referring to correct reasoning that differs somewhat from logic. >>>>>>

    Then why are you talking about fields of LOGIC?

    So that I can correct its mistakes. It has mistakes (incoherence and
    inconsistency) baked right into the definitions of its terms of the
    art.

    So, again, your are at the wrong end. If you want to change the
    fundamental definitions, you need to be talking about the Core Logic
    rules that you think need to be changed, not try to change them in a
    derived logic system, when such a change is NOT allowed.

    We cannot correctly label any analytical expression of language as
    true unless and until:
    (1) It has been stipulated to be true.

    (2) a connected set of semantic meanings back-chain to expressions of
    language that have been stipulated to be true.
    This is the same system that Prolog uses.

    Source for this "Claim". It can not be labeld "Analytically True", yes,
    but nothing says it can not be True. (If we can't prove it True we can
    not use it to actually directly prove something else, but it can be True).

    You seem to be saying that the Collatz conjecture can not have a Truth
    Value, because it has not been proven, even though it can be proven that
    it must be either True of False?


    It can only be declared as having an unknown truth value.


    --
    Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott

    "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
    Genius hits a target no one else can see."
    Arthur Schopenhauer

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Sun May 15 07:16:10 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.prolog

    On 5/15/22 12:07 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 6:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 7:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 5:50 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 5:48 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 4:15 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 5/14/22 5:02 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 3:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 1:25 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 11:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 11:32 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 9:59 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as halting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is concerned, so you
    better find another topic you don't know about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correct halt status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> behavior that this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> algorithm can do what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that you are more comfortable with, no D can exist >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> such that D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> otherwise.
    Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> know, I know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because you know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    All undecidable problems always have very well hidden >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logical incoherence, false assumptions, or very well >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hidden gaps in their reasoning otherwise the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fundamental nature of truth itself is broken. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inconsistent with the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> then you need to strictly limit the capabilities of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your logic system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> century behind in the knowledge of how Truth and Logic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in depth >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understanding of all of the subtle nuances of computer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> how logic systems systems sometimes diverge from >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correct reasoning when examined at the very high level >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> abstraction of the philosophical foundation of the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> notion of (analytic) truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with
    mathematicians learned-by-rote by-the-book without the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> slightest inkling of any of the key philosophical >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> underpinnings of these things, simply taking for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> granted that they are all these underpinnings are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> totally invisible to every learned-by-rote by-the-book >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> make you right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived nearly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that century ago, to a man who admitted he didn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand mathematics (and thought it not valuable) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> over everyone's head that they mistook his analysis for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simplistic rather than most elegant bare essence. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not >>>>>>>>>>>>>> understanding what Godel actually said (because he hadn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>> read the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field I >>>>>>>>>>>>>> have intensly studied), this statement is solely from >>>>>>>>>>>>>> private notes that were published after his death. If he >>>>>>>>>>>>>> really believed in this statement as was sure of it, it >>>>>>>>>>>>>> would seem natural that he actually would of published it. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that >>>>>>>>>>>>>> there was an error in his logic that he worked on and >>>>>>>>>>>>>> either never resolved or he found his logic error and thus >>>>>>>>>>>>>> stopped believing in that statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself >>>>>>>>>>>>> shortly before I ever heard of Wittgenstein I have
    first-hand direct knowledge that his reasoning is correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree >>>>>>>>>>>> with it,


    No, I independently verified his reasoning before I ever saw >>>>>>>>>>> his reasoning.

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of >>>>>>>>>>>> understanding.


    His full quote is on page 6
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes
    Wittgenstein have the exact same view as mine:

        'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved >>>>>>>>>>>>>      in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system' >>>>>>>>>>>>>      means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's system.- >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x)

    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or needs to >>>>>>>>>>>> be proved to be true.


    That no counter-examples can possibly exist is complete proof >>>>>>>>>>> that it is true. There are no categories of expressions of >>>>>>>>>>> language that are both true and neither stipulated as true or >>>>>>>>>>> proven to be true (sound deduction) on the basis of semantic >>>>>>>>>>> connections to other true expressions of language.

    WRONG. Again you conflate Analytic truth with truth.


    I am ALWAYS only talking about ANALYTIC TRUTH, the only time I >>>>>>>>> ever talk about EMPIRICAL TRUTH, is to say that I am not
    talking about that.

    Then stop talking about things that aren't analytically true.

    For instance, Godel's G is NOT 'Analytically True' in F, because >>>>>>>> you can't prove it, but it IS 'True' because you can show via a >>>>>>>> meta-logical proof in a higher system that it actually is True. >>>>>>>>

    OK great this is a key agreement between us.

    Collatz Conjecture IS either True or False, but it may not be
    Analytically True or False until someone can prove or refute it. >>>>>>>>

    Analytically True or False is the same as True or False, except
    that is excludes expressions of language dealing with sense data >>>>>>> from the sense organs.


    FALSE. Where is the Collatz conjecture being True in that? (If it is) >>>>>>
    It is possible that it is True, but totally unprovable, at least >>>>>>>> in the systems it is definied in, so it can NEVER be
    "Analytically True", but it is still True, and the conjure has >>>>>>>> ALWAYS been a Truth Bearer.


    If it is true then there must be a connected set of semantic
    meanings proving that it is true otherwise it is not true.

    I don't think that it matters whether or not this connected set
    can be found, thus is still would exists even if it took an
    infinite search to find.

    Unless you make the finite sequence from axioms to the result, you >>>>>> don't have a Proof.


    So this is where correct reasoning and logic diverge on
    terminology. When I refer to a set of connected semantic meanings
    this seems not exactly the same thing as a proof. If this set does
    not exist, then the expression is not true. If the set exists yet
    is impossible to find then it is still true.

    So something can be "Provable" yet no "Proof" actually be findable
    or expressable?

    That means you might not know if you have Proven Something.



    The key point is that just because something isn't Analytically >>>>>>>> True, or Analytically refuted doesn't mean that the statement
    isn't a Truth Bearer.

    Note also, There are true statements that are neither
    Analytically True or Emperically True. Those are distinctions
    made in fields of KNOWLEDGE, and only relate to catagorizing
    KNOWN Truths, or KNOWLEDGE. Epistemology, as you seem to like
    describing what you are talking about ISN'T about studying
    Truth, but KNOWLEDGE. A proper student of the field understands >>>>>>>> the difference, but you don't seem to be able to do that.

    Epistemology does NOT define what is "True", only what is
    "Known". A Proper Epistemolist understand that there are things >>>>>>>> that are True that are outside knowledge.




    The Collatz conjecture, that there exist no number N such that >>>>>>>>>> the sequence of progreesing to 3N+1 for N odd, and N/2 for N >>>>>>>>>> even doesn't eventually reach 1, MUST be either True of False. >>>>>>>>>> There is no possible "non-answer", as math doesn't allow for >>>>>>>>>> such things.


    If the answer requires an infinite search then this answer
    cannot be derived in finite time. None-the-less there exists a >>>>>>>>> connected set of semantic meanings that make it true or false >>>>>>>>> even if they cannot be found in finite time.

    But a non-finite chain of reasoning is NOT considered a proof, >>>>>>>> at least by the normal definitions of a proof.


    I am referring to correct reasoning that differs somewhat from
    logic.


    Then why are you talking about fields of LOGIC?

    So that I can correct its mistakes. It has mistakes (incoherence
    and inconsistency) baked right into the definitions of its terms of
    the art.

    So, again, your are at the wrong end. If you want to change the
    fundamental definitions, you need to be talking about the Core Logic
    rules that you think need to be changed, not try to change them in a
    derived logic system, when such a change is NOT allowed.

    We cannot correctly label any analytical expression of language as
    true unless and until:
    (1) It has been stipulated to be true.

    (2) a connected set of semantic meanings back-chain to expressions of
    language that have been stipulated to be true.
    This is the same system that Prolog uses.

    Source for this "Claim". It can not be labeld "Analytically True",
    yes, but nothing says it can not be True. (If we can't prove it True
    we can not use it to actually directly prove something else, but it
    can be True).

    You seem to be saying that the Collatz conjecture can not have a Truth
    Value, because it has not been proven, even though it can be proven
    that it must be either True of False?


    It can only be declared as having an unknown truth value.



    Which means it HAS a truth value of True or False but we don't know which.

    That is VERY difffernt then it having neither, which is what you have
    been claimiing (or at least what your words meant).

    This shows your confusion between Truth and Knowledge.

    Truth is about what actually IS

    Knowledge is about what we know about what is.

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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Tue May 17 22:11:47 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.prolog

    On 5/15/2022 6:16 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/15/22 12:07 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 6:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 7:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 5:50 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 5:48 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 4:15 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 5/14/22 5:02 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 3:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 1:25 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 11:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 11:32 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 9:59 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> halting is concerned, so you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> better find another topic you don't know about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correct halt status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> behavior that this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> algorithm can do what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake...

    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that you are more comfortable with, no D can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> exist such that D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> otherwise.
    Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> know, I know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because you know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    All undecidable problems always have very well >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hidden logical incoherence, false assumptions, or >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> very well hidden gaps in their reasoning otherwise >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the fundamental nature of truth itself is broken. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inconsistent with the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> then you need to strictly limit the capabilities of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your logic system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> century behind in the knowledge of how Truth and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Logic actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> depth understanding of all of the subtle nuances of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computer science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> how logic systems systems sometimes diverge from >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correct reasoning when examined at the very high level >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> abstraction of the philosophical foundation of the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> notion of (analytic) truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians learned-by-rote by-the-book without the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> slightest inkling of any of the key philosophical >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> underpinnings of these things, simply taking for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> granted that they are all these underpinnings are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> totally invisible to every learned-by-rote by-the-book >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> make you right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nearly that century ago, to a man who admitted he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> didn't understand mathematics (and thought it not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> valuable)


    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> over everyone's head that they mistook his analysis for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simplistic rather than most elegant bare essence. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understanding what Godel actually said (because he hadn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> read the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have intensly studied), this statement is solely from >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> private notes that were published after his death. If he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> really believed in this statement as was sure of it, it >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> would seem natural that he actually would of published it. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> there was an error in his logic that he worked on and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> either never resolved or he found his logic error and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> thus stopped believing in that statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself >>>>>>>>>>>>>> shortly before I ever heard of Wittgenstein I have >>>>>>>>>>>>>> first-hand direct knowledge that his reasoning is correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree >>>>>>>>>>>>> with it,


    No, I independently verified his reasoning before I ever saw >>>>>>>>>>>> his reasoning.

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of >>>>>>>>>>>>> understanding.


    His full quote is on page 6
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Wittgenstein have the exact same view as mine:

        'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved >>>>>>>>>>>>>>      in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system' >>>>>>>>>>>>>>      means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's system.-

    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x)

    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or needs >>>>>>>>>>>>> to be proved to be true.


    That no counter-examples can possibly exist is complete >>>>>>>>>>>> proof that it is true. There are no categories of
    expressions of language that are both true and neither >>>>>>>>>>>> stipulated as true or proven to be true (sound deduction) on >>>>>>>>>>>> the basis of semantic connections to other true expressions >>>>>>>>>>>> of language.

    WRONG. Again you conflate Analytic truth with truth.


    I am ALWAYS only talking about ANALYTIC TRUTH, the only time I >>>>>>>>>> ever talk about EMPIRICAL TRUTH, is to say that I am not
    talking about that.

    Then stop talking about things that aren't analytically true. >>>>>>>>>
    For instance, Godel's G is NOT 'Analytically True' in F,
    because you can't prove it, but it IS 'True' because you can >>>>>>>>> show via a meta-logical proof in a higher system that it
    actually is True.


    OK great this is a key agreement between us.

    Collatz Conjecture IS either True or False, but it may not be >>>>>>>>> Analytically True or False until someone can prove or refute it. >>>>>>>>>

    Analytically True or False is the same as True or False, except >>>>>>>> that is excludes expressions of language dealing with sense data >>>>>>>> from the sense organs.


    FALSE. Where is the Collatz conjecture being True in that? (If it >>>>>>> is)

    It is possible that it is True, but totally unprovable, at
    least in the systems it is definied in, so it can NEVER be
    "Analytically True", but it is still True, and the conjure has >>>>>>>>> ALWAYS been a Truth Bearer.


    If it is true then there must be a connected set of semantic
    meanings proving that it is true otherwise it is not true.

    I don't think that it matters whether or not this connected set >>>>>>>> can be found, thus is still would exists even if it took an
    infinite search to find.

    Unless you make the finite sequence from axioms to the result,
    you don't have a Proof.


    So this is where correct reasoning and logic diverge on
    terminology. When I refer to a set of connected semantic meanings
    this seems not exactly the same thing as a proof. If this set does >>>>>> not exist, then the expression is not true. If the set exists yet
    is impossible to find then it is still true.

    So something can be "Provable" yet no "Proof" actually be findable
    or expressable?

    That means you might not know if you have Proven Something.



    The key point is that just because something isn't Analytically >>>>>>>>> True, or Analytically refuted doesn't mean that the statement >>>>>>>>> isn't a Truth Bearer.

    Note also, There are true statements that are neither
    Analytically True or Emperically True. Those are distinctions >>>>>>>>> made in fields of KNOWLEDGE, and only relate to catagorizing >>>>>>>>> KNOWN Truths, or KNOWLEDGE. Epistemology, as you seem to like >>>>>>>>> describing what you are talking about ISN'T about studying
    Truth, but KNOWLEDGE. A proper student of the field understands >>>>>>>>> the difference, but you don't seem to be able to do that.

    Epistemology does NOT define what is "True", only what is
    "Known". A Proper Epistemolist understand that there are things >>>>>>>>> that are True that are outside knowledge.




    The Collatz conjecture, that there exist no number N such >>>>>>>>>>> that the sequence of progreesing to 3N+1 for N odd, and N/2 >>>>>>>>>>> for N even doesn't eventually reach 1, MUST be either True of >>>>>>>>>>> False. There is no possible "non-answer", as math doesn't >>>>>>>>>>> allow for such things.


    If the answer requires an infinite search then this answer >>>>>>>>>> cannot be derived in finite time. None-the-less there exists a >>>>>>>>>> connected set of semantic meanings that make it true or false >>>>>>>>>> even if they cannot be found in finite time.

    But a non-finite chain of reasoning is NOT considered a proof, >>>>>>>>> at least by the normal definitions of a proof.


    I am referring to correct reasoning that differs somewhat from >>>>>>>> logic.


    Then why are you talking about fields of LOGIC?

    So that I can correct its mistakes. It has mistakes (incoherence
    and inconsistency) baked right into the definitions of its terms
    of the art.

    So, again, your are at the wrong end. If you want to change the
    fundamental definitions, you need to be talking about the Core
    Logic rules that you think need to be changed, not try to change
    them in a derived logic system, when such a change is NOT allowed.

    We cannot correctly label any analytical expression of language as
    true unless and until:
    (1) It has been stipulated to be true.

    (2) a connected set of semantic meanings back-chain to expressions
    of language that have been stipulated to be true.
    This is the same system that Prolog uses.

    Source for this "Claim". It can not be labeld "Analytically True",
    yes, but nothing says it can not be True. (If we can't prove it True
    we can not use it to actually directly prove something else, but it
    can be True).

    You seem to be saying that the Collatz conjecture can not have a
    Truth Value, because it has not been proven, even though it can be
    proven that it must be either True of False?


    It can only be declared as having an unknown truth value.



    Which means it HAS a truth value of True or False but we don't know which.

    That is VERY difffernt then it having neither, which is what you have
    been claimiing (or at least what your words meant).


    Unless and Until a (possibly unknown) connection exists between an
    expression of language back-chained by sound deductive inference steps
    to known truth, the expression is not true.

    This shows your confusion between Truth and Knowledge.

    Truth is about what actually IS

    Knowledge is about what we know about what is.

    None-the-less the sequence of inference steps must exist, analytical
    truth is parasitic.

    --
    Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott

    "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
    Genius hits a target no one else can see."
    Arthur Schopenhauer

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Wed May 18 07:28:39 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.prolog

    On 5/17/22 11:11 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/15/2022 6:16 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/15/22 12:07 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 6:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 7:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 5:50 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 5:48 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 4:15 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 5/14/22 5:02 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 3:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 1:25 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 11:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 11:32 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 9:59 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    *Validity and Soundness*
    Good plan.  You've run aground as far as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> halting is concerned, so you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> better find another topic you don't know about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correct halt status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> behavior that this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> algorithm can do what the
    world calls "decide halting".

    Tarski makes a similar mistake... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that you are more comfortable with, no D can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> exist such that D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> otherwise.
    Do you now accept that this is not possible?  (I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> know, I know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.)

    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because you know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    All undecidable problems always have very well >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hidden logical incoherence, false assumptions, or >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> very well hidden gaps in their reasoning otherwise >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the fundamental nature of truth itself is broken. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inconsistent with the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> then you need to strictly limit the capabilities of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your logic system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> century behind in the knowledge of how Truth and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Logic actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> depth understanding of all of the subtle nuances of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computer science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> how logic systems systems sometimes diverge from >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correct reasoning when examined at the very high >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> level abstraction of the philosophical foundation of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the notion of (analytic) truth itself.

    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians learned-by-rote by-the-book without >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the slightest inkling of any of the key philosophical >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> underpinnings of these things, simply taking for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> granted that they are all these underpinnings are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> totally invisible to every learned-by-rote >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> by-the-book mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> make you right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nearly that century ago, to a man who admitted he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> didn't understand mathematics (and thought it not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> valuable)


    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> over everyone's head that they mistook his analysis for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simplistic rather than most elegant bare essence. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understanding what Godel actually said (because he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hadn't read the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I have intensly studied), this statement is solely from >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> private notes that were published after his death. If he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> really believed in this statement as was sure of it, it >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> would seem natural that he actually would of published it. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> there was an error in his logic that he worked on and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> either never resolved or he found his logic error and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> thus stopped believing in that statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shortly before I ever heard of Wittgenstein I have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> first-hand direct knowledge that his reasoning is correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree >>>>>>>>>>>>>> with it,


    No, I independently verified his reasoning before I ever >>>>>>>>>>>>> saw his reasoning.

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of >>>>>>>>>>>>>> understanding.


    His full quote is on page 6
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Wittgenstein have the exact same view as mine:

        'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>      in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system' >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>      means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> system.-

    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x)

    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or needs >>>>>>>>>>>>>> to be proved to be true.


    That no counter-examples can possibly exist is complete >>>>>>>>>>>>> proof that it is true. There are no categories of
    expressions of language that are both true and neither >>>>>>>>>>>>> stipulated as true or proven to be true (sound deduction) >>>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of semantic connections to other true
    expressions of language.

    WRONG. Again you conflate Analytic truth with truth.


    I am ALWAYS only talking about ANALYTIC TRUTH, the only time >>>>>>>>>>> I ever talk about EMPIRICAL TRUTH, is to say that I am not >>>>>>>>>>> talking about that.

    Then stop talking about things that aren't analytically true. >>>>>>>>>>
    For instance, Godel's G is NOT 'Analytically True' in F,
    because you can't prove it, but it IS 'True' because you can >>>>>>>>>> show via a meta-logical proof in a higher system that it
    actually is True.


    OK great this is a key agreement between us.

    Collatz Conjecture IS either True or False, but it may not be >>>>>>>>>> Analytically True or False until someone can prove or refute it. >>>>>>>>>>

    Analytically True or False is the same as True or False, except >>>>>>>>> that is excludes expressions of language dealing with sense
    data from the sense organs.


    FALSE. Where is the Collatz conjecture being True in that? (If >>>>>>>> it is)

    It is possible that it is True, but totally unprovable, at >>>>>>>>>> least in the systems it is definied in, so it can NEVER be >>>>>>>>>> "Analytically True", but it is still True, and the conjure has >>>>>>>>>> ALWAYS been a Truth Bearer.


    If it is true then there must be a connected set of semantic >>>>>>>>> meanings proving that it is true otherwise it is not true.

    I don't think that it matters whether or not this connected set >>>>>>>>> can be found, thus is still would exists even if it took an
    infinite search to find.

    Unless you make the finite sequence from axioms to the result, >>>>>>>> you don't have a Proof.


    So this is where correct reasoning and logic diverge on
    terminology. When I refer to a set of connected semantic meanings >>>>>>> this seems not exactly the same thing as a proof. If this set
    does not exist, then the expression is not true. If the set
    exists yet is impossible to find then it is still true.

    So something can be "Provable" yet no "Proof" actually be findable >>>>>> or expressable?

    That means you might not know if you have Proven Something.



    The key point is that just because something isn't
    Analytically True, or Analytically refuted doesn't mean that >>>>>>>>>> the statement isn't a Truth Bearer.

    Note also, There are true statements that are neither
    Analytically True or Emperically True. Those are distinctions >>>>>>>>>> made in fields of KNOWLEDGE, and only relate to catagorizing >>>>>>>>>> KNOWN Truths, or KNOWLEDGE. Epistemology, as you seem to like >>>>>>>>>> describing what you are talking about ISN'T about studying >>>>>>>>>> Truth, but KNOWLEDGE. A proper student of the field
    understands the difference, but you don't seem to be able to >>>>>>>>>> do that.

    Epistemology does NOT define what is "True", only what is
    "Known". A Proper Epistemolist understand that there are
    things that are True that are outside knowledge.




    The Collatz conjecture, that there exist no number N such >>>>>>>>>>>> that the sequence of progreesing to 3N+1 for N odd, and N/2 >>>>>>>>>>>> for N even doesn't eventually reach 1, MUST be either True >>>>>>>>>>>> of False. There is no possible "non-answer", as math doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>> allow for such things.


    If the answer requires an infinite search then this answer >>>>>>>>>>> cannot be derived in finite time. None-the-less there exists >>>>>>>>>>> a connected set of semantic meanings that make it true or >>>>>>>>>>> false even if they cannot be found in finite time.

    But a non-finite chain of reasoning is NOT considered a proof, >>>>>>>>>> at least by the normal definitions of a proof.


    I am referring to correct reasoning that differs somewhat from >>>>>>>>> logic.


    Then why are you talking about fields of LOGIC?

    So that I can correct its mistakes. It has mistakes (incoherence >>>>>>> and inconsistency) baked right into the definitions of its terms >>>>>>> of the art.

    So, again, your are at the wrong end. If you want to change the
    fundamental definitions, you need to be talking about the Core
    Logic rules that you think need to be changed, not try to change
    them in a derived logic system, when such a change is NOT allowed.

    We cannot correctly label any analytical expression of language as
    true unless and until:
    (1) It has been stipulated to be true.

    (2) a connected set of semantic meanings back-chain to expressions
    of language that have been stipulated to be true.
    This is the same system that Prolog uses.

    Source for this "Claim". It can not be labeld "Analytically True",
    yes, but nothing says it can not be True. (If we can't prove it True
    we can not use it to actually directly prove something else, but it
    can be True).

    You seem to be saying that the Collatz conjecture can not have a
    Truth Value, because it has not been proven, even though it can be
    proven that it must be either True of False?


    It can only be declared as having an unknown truth value.



    Which means it HAS a truth value of True or False but we don't know
    which.

    That is VERY difffernt then it having neither, which is what you have
    been claimiing (or at least what your words meant).


    Unless and Until a (possibly unknown) connection exists between an
    expression of language back-chained by sound deductive inference steps
    to known truth, the expression is not true.

    This shows your confusion between Truth and Knowledge.

    Truth is about what actually IS

    Knowledge is about what we know about what is.

    None-the-less the sequence of inference steps must exist, analytical
    truth is parasitic.


    Absolutely NOT. There does NOT need to be proof that something is true.

    IF you want to claim that, by YOUR definition, you need to actually
    PROVE it.

    And, you can't do that by assuming it, you need to actually PROVE it
    from the accepted axioms.

    Since you can't, that just shows your statement isn't TRUE.

    It is a fact, that it HAS been proved that if you include such a rule in
    your axioms, that you can get an inconsistent system once you allow
    certain logical operations to be used, that are needed to support
    mathemeatics.

    So, your arguement fails.

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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Wed May 18 10:01:06 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.prolog

    On 5/18/2022 6:28 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/17/22 11:11 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/15/2022 6:16 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/15/22 12:07 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 6:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 7:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 5:50 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 5:48 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 4:15 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 5/14/22 5:02 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 3:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 1:25 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 11:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 11:32 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 9:59 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote:
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    *Validity and Soundness* >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Good plan.  You've run aground as far as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> halting is concerned, so you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> better find another topic you don't know about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correct halt status for
    the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the actual >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> behavior that this
    input actually specifies.
    It is now dead obvious that you accept that no >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> algorithm can do what the
    world calls "decide halting". >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Tarski makes a similar mistake... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that you are more comfortable with, no D can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> exist such that D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> otherwise.
    Do you now accept that this is not possible? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (I know, I know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because you know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    All undecidable problems always have very well >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hidden logical incoherence, false assumptions, or >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> very well hidden gaps in their reasoning otherwise >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the fundamental nature of truth itself is broken. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inconsistent with the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> then you need to strictly limit the capabilities of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your logic system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a century behind in the knowledge of how Truth and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Logic actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> depth understanding of all of the subtle nuances of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computer science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of how logic systems systems sometimes diverge from >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correct reasoning when examined at the very high >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> level abstraction of the philosophical foundation of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the notion of (analytic) truth itself. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians learned-by-rote by-the-book without >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the slightest inkling of any of the key >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> philosophical underpinnings of these things, simply >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> taking for granted that they are all these >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> underpinnings are infallibly correct.

    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> totally invisible to every learned-by-rote >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> by-the-book mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> make you right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nearly that century ago, to a man who admitted he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> didn't understand mathematics (and thought it not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> valuable)


    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> over everyone's head that they mistook his analysis >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> for simplistic rather than most elegant bare essence. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understanding what Godel actually said (because he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hadn't read the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a field >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I have intensly studied), this statement is solely from >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> private notes that were published after his death. If >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> he really believed in this statement as was sure of it, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it would seem natural that he actually would of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> published it.

    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> there was an error in his logic that he worked on and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> either never resolved or he found his logic error and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> thus stopped believing in that statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shortly before I ever heard of Wittgenstein I have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> first-hand direct knowledge that his reasoning is correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with it,


    No, I independently verified his reasoning before I ever >>>>>>>>>>>>>> saw his reasoning.

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understanding.


    His full quote is on page 6
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Wittgenstein have the exact same view as mine: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
        'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>      in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system' >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>      means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> system.-

    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or needs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to be proved to be true.


    That no counter-examples can possibly exist is complete >>>>>>>>>>>>>> proof that it is true. There are no categories of
    expressions of language that are both true and neither >>>>>>>>>>>>>> stipulated as true or proven to be true (sound deduction) >>>>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of semantic connections to other true >>>>>>>>>>>>>> expressions of language.

    WRONG. Again you conflate Analytic truth with truth. >>>>>>>>>>>>>

    I am ALWAYS only talking about ANALYTIC TRUTH, the only time >>>>>>>>>>>> I ever talk about EMPIRICAL TRUTH, is to say that I am not >>>>>>>>>>>> talking about that.

    Then stop talking about things that aren't analytically true. >>>>>>>>>>>
    For instance, Godel's G is NOT 'Analytically True' in F, >>>>>>>>>>> because you can't prove it, but it IS 'True' because you can >>>>>>>>>>> show via a meta-logical proof in a higher system that it >>>>>>>>>>> actually is True.


    OK great this is a key agreement between us.

    Collatz Conjecture IS either True or False, but it may not be >>>>>>>>>>> Analytically True or False until someone can prove or refute it. >>>>>>>>>>>

    Analytically True or False is the same as True or False,
    except that is excludes expressions of language dealing with >>>>>>>>>> sense data from the sense organs.


    FALSE. Where is the Collatz conjecture being True in that? (If >>>>>>>>> it is)

    It is possible that it is True, but totally unprovable, at >>>>>>>>>>> least in the systems it is definied in, so it can NEVER be >>>>>>>>>>> "Analytically True", but it is still True, and the conjure >>>>>>>>>>> has ALWAYS been a Truth Bearer.


    If it is true then there must be a connected set of semantic >>>>>>>>>> meanings proving that it is true otherwise it is not true. >>>>>>>>>>
    I don't think that it matters whether or not this connected >>>>>>>>>> set can be found, thus is still would exists even if it took >>>>>>>>>> an infinite search to find.

    Unless you make the finite sequence from axioms to the result, >>>>>>>>> you don't have a Proof.


    So this is where correct reasoning and logic diverge on
    terminology. When I refer to a set of connected semantic
    meanings this seems not exactly the same thing as a proof. If
    this set does not exist, then the expression is not true. If the >>>>>>>> set exists yet is impossible to find then it is still true.

    So something can be "Provable" yet no "Proof" actually be
    findable or expressable?

    That means you might not know if you have Proven Something.



    The key point is that just because something isn't
    Analytically True, or Analytically refuted doesn't mean that >>>>>>>>>>> the statement isn't a Truth Bearer.

    Note also, There are true statements that are neither
    Analytically True or Emperically True. Those are distinctions >>>>>>>>>>> made in fields of KNOWLEDGE, and only relate to catagorizing >>>>>>>>>>> KNOWN Truths, or KNOWLEDGE. Epistemology, as you seem to like >>>>>>>>>>> describing what you are talking about ISN'T about studying >>>>>>>>>>> Truth, but KNOWLEDGE. A proper student of the field
    understands the difference, but you don't seem to be able to >>>>>>>>>>> do that.

    Epistemology does NOT define what is "True", only what is >>>>>>>>>>> "Known". A Proper Epistemolist understand that there are >>>>>>>>>>> things that are True that are outside knowledge.




    The Collatz conjecture, that there exist no number N such >>>>>>>>>>>>> that the sequence of progreesing to 3N+1 for N odd, and N/2 >>>>>>>>>>>>> for N even doesn't eventually reach 1, MUST be either True >>>>>>>>>>>>> of False. There is no possible "non-answer", as math >>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't allow for such things.


    If the answer requires an infinite search then this answer >>>>>>>>>>>> cannot be derived in finite time. None-the-less there exists >>>>>>>>>>>> a connected set of semantic meanings that make it true or >>>>>>>>>>>> false even if they cannot be found in finite time.

    But a non-finite chain of reasoning is NOT considered a
    proof, at least by the normal definitions of a proof.


    I am referring to correct reasoning that differs somewhat from >>>>>>>>>> logic.


    Then why are you talking about fields of LOGIC?

    So that I can correct its mistakes. It has mistakes (incoherence >>>>>>>> and inconsistency) baked right into the definitions of its terms >>>>>>>> of the art.

    So, again, your are at the wrong end. If you want to change the
    fundamental definitions, you need to be talking about the Core
    Logic rules that you think need to be changed, not try to change >>>>>>> them in a derived logic system, when such a change is NOT allowed. >>>>>>
    We cannot correctly label any analytical expression of language as >>>>>> true unless and until:
    (1) It has been stipulated to be true.

    (2) a connected set of semantic meanings back-chain to expressions >>>>>> of language that have been stipulated to be true.
    This is the same system that Prolog uses.

    Source for this "Claim". It can not be labeld "Analytically True",
    yes, but nothing says it can not be True. (If we can't prove it
    True we can not use it to actually directly prove something else,
    but it can be True).

    You seem to be saying that the Collatz conjecture can not have a
    Truth Value, because it has not been proven, even though it can be
    proven that it must be either True of False?


    It can only be declared as having an unknown truth value.



    Which means it HAS a truth value of True or False but we don't know
    which.

    That is VERY difffernt then it having neither, which is what you have
    been claimiing (or at least what your words meant).


    Unless and Until a (possibly unknown) connection exists between an
    expression of language back-chained by sound deductive inference steps
    to known truth, the expression is not true.

    This shows your confusion between Truth and Knowledge.

    Truth is about what actually IS

    Knowledge is about what we know about what is.

    None-the-less the sequence of inference steps must exist, analytical
    truth is parasitic.


    Absolutely NOT. There does NOT need to be proof that something is true.

    IF you want to claim that, by YOUR definition, you need to actually
    PROVE it.


    “Analytic” sentences, such as “Pediatricians are doctors,” have historically been characterized as ones that are true by virtue of the
    meanings of their words alone and/or can be known to be so solely by
    knowing those meanings.
    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analytic-synthetic/

    Every analytic expression of language (including math and logic) must be connected to it meaning showing that it is true OR IT IS NOT TRUE.

    Expressions of language that are not connected to their meaning are
    meaningless thus neither true nor false.

    And, you can't do that by assuming it, you need to actually PROVE it
    from the accepted axioms.

    Since you can't, that just shows your statement isn't TRUE.

    It is a fact, that it HAS been proved that if you include such a rule in
    your axioms, that you can get an inconsistent system once you allow
    certain logical operations to be used, that are needed to support mathemeatics.

    So, your arguement fails.


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    Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Wed May 18 19:57:00 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.prolog

    On 5/18/22 11:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/18/2022 6:28 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/17/22 11:11 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/15/2022 6:16 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/15/22 12:07 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 6:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 7:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 5:50 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 5:48 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 4:15 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 5/14/22 5:02 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 3:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 1:25 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 11:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 11:32 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 9:59 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 10:42 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2022 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 5/14/22 12:01 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 7:27 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/13/22 7:35 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2022 6:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/13/22 7:05 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/13/2022 6:01 PM, Ben wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    On 5/13/2022 3:46 PM, Ben wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    On 5/13/2022 2:16 PM, Ben wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    *Validity and Soundness* >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Good plan.  You've run aground as far as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> halting is concerned, so you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> better find another topic you don't know about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It has been dead obvious that H(P,P)==0 is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the correct halt status for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the input to H(P,P) on the basis of the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actual behavior that this >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input actually specifies. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It is now dead obvious that you accept that no >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> algorithm can do what the
    world calls "decide halting". >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Tarski makes a similar mistake... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    <snip distractions>

      That is, in the context of C-like code >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that you are more comfortable with, no D can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> exist such that D(X,Y) is
    true if and only if X(Y) halts and is false >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> otherwise.
    Do you now accept that this is not possible? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (I know, I know...  I
    don't really expect an answer.) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    As expected, no answer.  You can't answer this >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because you know that
    would be the end of you bragging about halting. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    All undecidable problems always have very well >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hidden logical incoherence, false assumptions, or >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> very well hidden gaps in their reasoning >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> otherwise the fundamental nature of truth itself >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is broken.


    No, YOUR definition of truth gets proved to be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inconsistent with the system.

    If you want to insist that Truth must be Provable, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> then you need to strictly limit the capabilities >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of your logic system.

    Your failure to understand this just shows you are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a century behind in the knowledge of how Truth and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Logic actually works.

    The key thing here is not my lack of extremely in >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> depth understanding of all of the subtle nuances of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computer science.

    The key thing here is my much deeper understanding >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of how logic systems systems sometimes diverge from >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correct reasoning when examined at the very high >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> level abstraction of the philosophical foundation >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of the notion of (analytic) truth itself. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    ittgensteinW had the exact same issue with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians learned-by-rote by-the-book without >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the slightest inkling of any of the key >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> philosophical underpinnings of these things, simply >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> taking for granted that they are all these >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> underpinnings are infallibly correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    When these underpinnings are incorrect this error >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is totally invisible to every learned-by-rote >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> by-the-book mathematician.


    That other people have made the same errors, doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> make you right.

    Note also, you are refering to a person who lived >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nearly that century ago, to a man who admitted he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> didn't understand mathematics (and thought it not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> valuable)


    He refuted Godel in a single paragraph and was so far >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> over everyone's head that they mistook his analysis >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> for simplistic rather than most elegant bare essence. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Nope, He made the same mistake YOU are making and not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understanding what Godel actually said (because he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hadn't read the paper).

    As I understand it (and I will admit this isn't a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> field I have intensly studied), this statement is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> solely from private notes that were published after >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> his death. If he really believed in this statement as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> was sure of it, it would seem natural that he actually >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> would of published it.

    It seems likely that he had some nagging thought that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> there was an error in his logic that he worked on and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> either never resolved or he found his logic error and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> thus stopped believing in that statement.


    Since I wrote Wittgenstein's entire same proof myself >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shortly before I ever heard of Wittgenstein I have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> first-hand direct knowledge that his reasoning is correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, you THINK his reasoning is correct because you agree >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with it,


    No, I independently verified his reasoning before I ever >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> saw his reasoning.

    That is NOT proof. You thinking it is shows your lack of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understanding.


    His full quote is on page 6
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    This is the key source of our agreement that makes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Wittgenstein have the exact same view as mine: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
        'True in Russell's system' means, as was said: proved >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>      in Russell's system; and 'false in Russell's system' >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>      means:the opposite has been proved in Russell's >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> system.-

    True(x) iff Stipulated_True(x) or Proven_True(x) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Which either needs to be taken as an assumption, or >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> needs to be proved to be true.


    That no counter-examples can possibly exist is complete >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> proof that it is true. There are no categories of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> expressions of language that are both true and neither >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> stipulated as true or proven to be true (sound deduction) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of semantic connections to other true >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> expressions of language.

    WRONG. Again you conflate Analytic truth with truth. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    I am ALWAYS only talking about ANALYTIC TRUTH, the only >>>>>>>>>>>>> time I ever talk about EMPIRICAL TRUTH, is to say that I am >>>>>>>>>>>>> not talking about that.

    Then stop talking about things that aren't analytically true. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    For instance, Godel's G is NOT 'Analytically True' in F, >>>>>>>>>>>> because you can't prove it, but it IS 'True' because you can >>>>>>>>>>>> show via a meta-logical proof in a higher system that it >>>>>>>>>>>> actually is True.


    OK great this is a key agreement between us.

    Collatz Conjecture IS either True or False, but it may not >>>>>>>>>>>> be Analytically True or False until someone can prove or >>>>>>>>>>>> refute it.


    Analytically True or False is the same as True or False, >>>>>>>>>>> except that is excludes expressions of language dealing with >>>>>>>>>>> sense data from the sense organs.


    FALSE. Where is the Collatz conjecture being True in that? (If >>>>>>>>>> it is)

    It is possible that it is True, but totally unprovable, at >>>>>>>>>>>> least in the systems it is definied in, so it can NEVER be >>>>>>>>>>>> "Analytically True", but it is still True, and the conjure >>>>>>>>>>>> has ALWAYS been a Truth Bearer.


    If it is true then there must be a connected set of semantic >>>>>>>>>>> meanings proving that it is true otherwise it is not true. >>>>>>>>>>>
    I don't think that it matters whether or not this connected >>>>>>>>>>> set can be found, thus is still would exists even if it took >>>>>>>>>>> an infinite search to find.

    Unless you make the finite sequence from axioms to the result, >>>>>>>>>> you don't have a Proof.


    So this is where correct reasoning and logic diverge on
    terminology. When I refer to a set of connected semantic
    meanings this seems not exactly the same thing as a proof. If >>>>>>>>> this set does not exist, then the expression is not true. If >>>>>>>>> the set exists yet is impossible to find then it is still true. >>>>>>>>
    So something can be "Provable" yet no "Proof" actually be
    findable or expressable?

    That means you might not know if you have Proven Something.



    The key point is that just because something isn't
    Analytically True, or Analytically refuted doesn't mean that >>>>>>>>>>>> the statement isn't a Truth Bearer.

    Note also, There are true statements that are neither
    Analytically True or Emperically True. Those are
    distinctions made in fields of KNOWLEDGE, and only relate to >>>>>>>>>>>> catagorizing KNOWN Truths, or KNOWLEDGE. Epistemology, as >>>>>>>>>>>> you seem to like describing what you are talking about ISN'T >>>>>>>>>>>> about studying Truth, but KNOWLEDGE. A proper student of the >>>>>>>>>>>> field understands the difference, but you don't seem to be >>>>>>>>>>>> able to do that.

    Epistemology does NOT define what is "True", only what is >>>>>>>>>>>> "Known". A Proper Epistemolist understand that there are >>>>>>>>>>>> things that are True that are outside knowledge.




    The Collatz conjecture, that there exist no number N such >>>>>>>>>>>>>> that the sequence of progreesing to 3N+1 for N odd, and >>>>>>>>>>>>>> N/2 for N even doesn't eventually reach 1, MUST be either >>>>>>>>>>>>>> True of False. There is no possible "non-answer", as math >>>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't allow for such things.


    If the answer requires an infinite search then this answer >>>>>>>>>>>>> cannot be derived in finite time. None-the-less there >>>>>>>>>>>>> exists a connected set of semantic meanings that make it >>>>>>>>>>>>> true or false even if they cannot be found in finite time. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    But a non-finite chain of reasoning is NOT considered a >>>>>>>>>>>> proof, at least by the normal definitions of a proof.


    I am referring to correct reasoning that differs somewhat >>>>>>>>>>> from logic.


    Then why are you talking about fields of LOGIC?

    So that I can correct its mistakes. It has mistakes
    (incoherence and inconsistency) baked right into the
    definitions of its terms of the art.

    So, again, your are at the wrong end. If you want to change the >>>>>>>> fundamental definitions, you need to be talking about the Core >>>>>>>> Logic rules that you think need to be changed, not try to change >>>>>>>> them in a derived logic system, when such a change is NOT allowed. >>>>>>>
    We cannot correctly label any analytical expression of language
    as true unless and until:
    (1) It has been stipulated to be true.

    (2) a connected set of semantic meanings back-chain to
    expressions of language that have been stipulated to be true.
    This is the same system that Prolog uses.

    Source for this "Claim". It can not be labeld "Analytically True", >>>>>> yes, but nothing says it can not be True. (If we can't prove it
    True we can not use it to actually directly prove something else,
    but it can be True).

    You seem to be saying that the Collatz conjecture can not have a
    Truth Value, because it has not been proven, even though it can be >>>>>> proven that it must be either True of False?


    It can only be declared as having an unknown truth value.



    Which means it HAS a truth value of True or False but we don't know
    which.

    That is VERY difffernt then it having neither, which is what you
    have been claimiing (or at least what your words meant).


    Unless and Until a (possibly unknown) connection exists between an
    expression of language back-chained by sound deductive inference
    steps to known truth, the expression is not true.

    This shows your confusion between Truth and Knowledge.

    Truth is about what actually IS

    Knowledge is about what we know about what is.

    None-the-less the sequence of inference steps must exist, analytical
    truth is parasitic.


    Absolutely NOT. There does NOT need to be proof that something is true.

    IF you want to claim that, by YOUR definition, you need to actually
    PROVE it.


    “Analytic” sentences, such as “Pediatricians are doctors,” have historically been characterized as ones that are true by virtue of the meanings of their words alone and/or can be known to be so solely by
    knowing those meanings. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analytic-synthetic/

    Every analytic expression of language (including math and logic) must be connected to it meaning showing that it is true OR IT IS NOT TRUE.

    Expressions of language that are not connected to their meaning are meaningless thus neither true nor false.

    So, how do you use the meaning of the words in "The Square of the
    Hypotonuse of a right triangle is equal to the sume of the squares of
    the other two sides" to show it is true?

    I think you will have problems.



    And, you can't do that by assuming it, you need to actually PROVE it
    from the accepted axioms.

    Since you can't, that just shows your statement isn't TRUE.

    It is a fact, that it HAS been proved that if you include such a rule
    in your axioms, that you can get an inconsistent system once you allow
    certain logical operations to be used, that are needed to support
    mathemeatics.

    So, your arguement fails.



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