• Re: Concise refutation of halting problem proofs V62 [ my legacy ]

    From olcott@21:1/5 to Mr Flibble on Thu Feb 17 12:44:05 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math

    On 2/17/2022 12:16 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 07:00:26 -0500
    Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote:

    On 2/17/22 12:36 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 11:33 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 10:54 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 2/16/22 11:22 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 10:17 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/22 11:09 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 9:56 PM, Richard Damon wrote:


    Every simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation
    of its input to prevent its infinite simulation correctly
    transitions to its reject state.


    WRONG. You aren't following the right definitions.

    Try to actually PROVE your statement.


    Try to prove that a baby kitten is an animal and not the windows
    of an office building. It is all in the simple meaning of the
    words.

    RED HERRING.

    You just don't understand the difference betweeen FORMAL logic
    systems and informal ones.

    You have FAILED, but are too dumb to know it.


    Halting problem undecidability and infinitely nested simulation
    (V3)
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358009319_Halting_problem_undecidability_and_infinitely_nested_simulation_V3



    Your monument to your stupidity.

    Not ONE bit of formal prpof.

    FAIL.

    Maybe you can convince yourzelf that you have proven something,
    but if you want anyone who means anything to agree with you, you
    have a VERY long wait.

    I think that you understand this deep in your heart, which is why
    you just peddle your garbage on forums that don't require peer
    review to make statements.

    Every simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation of its
    input to prevent its infinite simulation correctly transitions to
    its reject state.

    You all know that what I say is self-evidently true.

    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.
    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.
    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.
    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.
    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.

    Example:
    A simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation of its
    input to prevent its infinite simulation where this input halts on
    its own without being aborted.


    How about our H and the H" built from it.

    You have shown the H must abort its simulation of H" or H will never
    halt. That is accepted.

    BUT, When we look at the actual behavoir of H <H"> we see that we
    have the following trace:

    We start at H".Q0 <H">
    We go to H".Qx <H"> <H">
    since H".Qx has a copy of H at it, and we have said that H has
    supposedly correctly decided that H" <H"> is a non-halting
    computation, and thus aborts its simulation of its input and goes to
    H.Qn, we know that at H" will go to H".Qn
    When H" goes to H".Qn, it Halts.

    THus we have shown that H" <H"> is non-halting

    Thus we have shown that H <H"> <H"> was wrong.

    Thus we HAVE the counter example that you claim does not exist.

    H is WRONG about H <H"> <H"> because if H goes to H.Qn for this
    input, BY DEFINITION, it means that the simple running opf H" applied
    to <H"> must never halt, but we have just shown that BECAUSE H <H">
    <H"> goes to H.Qn, that H"<H"> will also go to H".Qn and Halt, and
    thus H has violated its requirements, and thus is not correct.

    FAIL.


    You have just shown that you don't understand anything about formal
    logic or how to prove something.

    A claim that because someone hasn't produced a counter example means
    your statement must be true is just plain unsond logic.

    TTo claim something follows, 'by the meaning of the words' and not
    being able to show the actual FORMAL definitions being used to make
    that claim, is just unsound logic.

    FORMAL LOGIC doesn't accept crude rhetorical arguments, but only
    formal step by step proofs.

    All you have done is PROVED that you don't understand what you are
    doing, and you don't understand how to use formal logic.

    This is sort of understandable since you have revealed that you goal
    is just to try to establish an Epistemological statement, which isn't
    even a field of "Formal Logic', but Philosophy, so if that is the
    field you are used to talking in, you just don't have a background to
    handle Formal Logic, which Computation Theory uses.

    So, you have just FAILED to understand what you need to do to show
    something in COmputation Theory, which also shows that you don't
    really understand Epistimology, as you clearly don't undstand the
    concept of the Knowing of the Truth of Propositions, the idea of
    actual 'Facts'.

    FAIL.

    Have you really got nothing better to do with your time?

    /Flibble


    According to medical science I have terminal cancer with little time
    left. I intend my HP proof rebuttal to be my legacy.

    Since you already agreed that the pathological self-reference of the
    halting problem proofs makes these proof illegitimate I have no idea why
    you would be reversing course now.

    I have applied analogous reasoning to Gödel's 1931 incompleteness
    theorem, the Tarski Undefinability theorem and the Liar paradox. See
    also Wittgenstein's “notorious paragraph” about the Gödel Theorem.

    People wrote off his view as merely simplistic. Wittgenstein actually
    boiled Gödel's reasoning down to its barest essence and then pointed to
    its error. I was not aware that Wittgenstein's view agreed with mine
    until after I fully formed my own view.

    Proof that Wittgenstein is correct about Gödel https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel

    The key benefit of my research is the it eliminates the limit to
    computability and anchors Davidson's "truth conditional semantics" in a formalized notion of truth. Analytical truth (of the analytic versus
    synthetic distinction) is merely a set of mutually interlocking semantic tautologies.

    Some expressions of language are defined to be true (basic facts) such
    as "cats are animals" and other expressions of language can be deduced
    from these {basic facts}.

    This sums up my view HP proof rebuttal quite concisely:
    [Halt status criteria that correctly handles pathological
    self-reference] (posted in this group).


    Halting problem undecidability and infinitely nested simulation (V3)

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358009319_Halting_problem_undecidability_and_infinitely_nested_simulation_V3


    --
    Copyright 2021 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 olcott@21:1/5 to Mr Flibble on Thu Feb 17 14:36:14 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math

    On 2/17/2022 1:50 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:44:05 -0600
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> wrote:

    On 2/17/2022 12:16 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 07:00:26 -0500
    Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote:

    On 2/17/22 12:36 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 11:33 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 10:54 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 2/16/22 11:22 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 10:17 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/22 11:09 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 9:56 PM, Richard Damon wrote:


    Every simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation >>>>>>>>>> of its input to prevent its infinite simulation correctly
    transitions to its reject state.


    WRONG. You aren't following the right definitions.

    Try to actually PROVE your statement.


    Try to prove that a baby kitten is an animal and not the
    windows of an office building. It is all in the simple meaning >>>>>>>> of the words.

    RED HERRING.

    You just don't understand the difference betweeen FORMAL logic
    systems and informal ones.

    You have FAILED, but are too dumb to know it.


    Halting problem undecidability and infinitely nested simulation >>>>>>>> (V3)
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358009319_Halting_problem_undecidability_and_infinitely_nested_simulation_V3



    Your monument to your stupidity.

    Not ONE bit of formal prpof.

    FAIL.

    Maybe you can convince yourzelf that you have proven something,
    but if you want anyone who means anything to agree with you, you >>>>>>> have a VERY long wait.

    I think that you understand this deep in your heart, which is
    why you just peddle your garbage on forums that don't require
    peer review to make statements.

    Every simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation of
    its input to prevent its infinite simulation correctly
    transitions to its reject state.

    You all know that what I say is self-evidently true.

    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.
    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.
    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.
    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.
    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am
    correct.

    Example:
    A simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation of its
    input to prevent its infinite simulation where this input halts on
    its own without being aborted.


    How about our H and the H" built from it.

    You have shown the H must abort its simulation of H" or H will
    never halt. That is accepted.

    BUT, When we look at the actual behavoir of H <H"> we see that we
    have the following trace:

    We start at H".Q0 <H">
    We go to H".Qx <H"> <H">
    since H".Qx has a copy of H at it, and we have said that H has
    supposedly correctly decided that H" <H"> is a non-halting
    computation, and thus aborts its simulation of its input and goes
    to H.Qn, we know that at H" will go to H".Qn
    When H" goes to H".Qn, it Halts.

    THus we have shown that H" <H"> is non-halting

    Thus we have shown that H <H"> <H"> was wrong.

    Thus we HAVE the counter example that you claim does not exist.

    H is WRONG about H <H"> <H"> because if H goes to H.Qn for this
    input, BY DEFINITION, it means that the simple running opf H"
    applied to <H"> must never halt, but we have just shown that
    BECAUSE H <H"> <H"> goes to H.Qn, that H"<H"> will also go to
    H".Qn and Halt, and thus H has violated its requirements, and thus
    is not correct.

    FAIL.


    You have just shown that you don't understand anything about formal
    logic or how to prove something.

    A claim that because someone hasn't produced a counter example
    means your statement must be true is just plain unsond logic.

    TTo claim something follows, 'by the meaning of the words' and not
    being able to show the actual FORMAL definitions being used to make
    that claim, is just unsound logic.

    FORMAL LOGIC doesn't accept crude rhetorical arguments, but only
    formal step by step proofs.

    All you have done is PROVED that you don't understand what you are
    doing, and you don't understand how to use formal logic.

    This is sort of understandable since you have revealed that you
    goal is just to try to establish an Epistemological statement,
    which isn't even a field of "Formal Logic', but Philosophy, so if
    that is the field you are used to talking in, you just don't have
    a background to handle Formal Logic, which Computation Theory uses.

    So, you have just FAILED to understand what you need to do to show
    something in COmputation Theory, which also shows that you don't
    really understand Epistimology, as you clearly don't undstand the
    concept of the Knowing of the Truth of Propositions, the idea of
    actual 'Facts'.

    FAIL.

    Have you really got nothing better to do with your time?

    /Flibble


    According to medical science I have terminal cancer with little time
    left. I intend my HP proof rebuttal to be my legacy.

    I am really sorry to hear that. :( I hope you live as long as possible without pain.

    /Flibble

    The only issue now is my seemingly probable greatly shortened life span.
    There is no pain, discomfort or signs of illness besides my huge lymph
    nodes. The one under my right arm pit is about the size of a tennis
    ball: two inches in diameter.

    https://www.mdcalc.com/follicular-lymphoma-international-prognostic-index-flipi My FLIPI index score of 3 gave me a 35% 10 year survival rate and a 53%
    5 year survival rate from date of diagnosis two years ago last December.

    0.35 * 10 = 3.50
    0.53 * 5 = 2.65
    (3.5 + 2.65) / 2 = 3.075 years from December 19, 2019
    (about 11 more months left from now)

    Any help with my proof would be greatly appreciated.

    --
    Copyright 2021 Pete Olcott

    Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
    Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Mr Flibble on Thu Feb 17 14:22:01 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math

    On 2/17/2022 1:48 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:44:05 -0600
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> wrote:

    On 2/17/2022 12:16 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 07:00:26 -0500
    Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote:

    On 2/17/22 12:36 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 11:33 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 10:54 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 2/16/22 11:22 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 10:17 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/22 11:09 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 9:56 PM, Richard Damon wrote:


    Every simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation >>>>>>>>>> of its input to prevent its infinite simulation correctly
    transitions to its reject state.


    WRONG. You aren't following the right definitions.

    Try to actually PROVE your statement.


    Try to prove that a baby kitten is an animal and not the
    windows of an office building. It is all in the simple meaning >>>>>>>> of the words.

    RED HERRING.

    You just don't understand the difference betweeen FORMAL logic
    systems and informal ones.

    You have FAILED, but are too dumb to know it.


    Halting problem undecidability and infinitely nested simulation >>>>>>>> (V3)
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358009319_Halting_problem_undecidability_and_infinitely_nested_simulation_V3



    Your monument to your stupidity.

    Not ONE bit of formal prpof.

    FAIL.

    Maybe you can convince yourzelf that you have proven something,
    but if you want anyone who means anything to agree with you, you >>>>>>> have a VERY long wait.

    I think that you understand this deep in your heart, which is
    why you just peddle your garbage on forums that don't require
    peer review to make statements.

    Every simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation of
    its input to prevent its infinite simulation correctly
    transitions to its reject state.

    You all know that what I say is self-evidently true.

    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.
    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.
    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.
    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.
    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am
    correct.

    Example:
    A simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation of its
    input to prevent its infinite simulation where this input halts on
    its own without being aborted.


    How about our H and the H" built from it.

    You have shown the H must abort its simulation of H" or H will
    never halt. That is accepted.

    BUT, When we look at the actual behavoir of H <H"> we see that we
    have the following trace:

    We start at H".Q0 <H">
    We go to H".Qx <H"> <H">
    since H".Qx has a copy of H at it, and we have said that H has
    supposedly correctly decided that H" <H"> is a non-halting
    computation, and thus aborts its simulation of its input and goes
    to H.Qn, we know that at H" will go to H".Qn
    When H" goes to H".Qn, it Halts.

    THus we have shown that H" <H"> is non-halting

    Thus we have shown that H <H"> <H"> was wrong.

    Thus we HAVE the counter example that you claim does not exist.

    H is WRONG about H <H"> <H"> because if H goes to H.Qn for this
    input, BY DEFINITION, it means that the simple running opf H"
    applied to <H"> must never halt, but we have just shown that
    BECAUSE H <H"> <H"> goes to H.Qn, that H"<H"> will also go to
    H".Qn and Halt, and thus H has violated its requirements, and thus
    is not correct.

    FAIL.


    You have just shown that you don't understand anything about formal
    logic or how to prove something.

    A claim that because someone hasn't produced a counter example
    means your statement must be true is just plain unsond logic.

    TTo claim something follows, 'by the meaning of the words' and not
    being able to show the actual FORMAL definitions being used to make
    that claim, is just unsound logic.

    FORMAL LOGIC doesn't accept crude rhetorical arguments, but only
    formal step by step proofs.

    All you have done is PROVED that you don't understand what you are
    doing, and you don't understand how to use formal logic.

    This is sort of understandable since you have revealed that you
    goal is just to try to establish an Epistemological statement,
    which isn't even a field of "Formal Logic', but Philosophy, so if
    that is the field you are used to talking in, you just don't have
    a background to handle Formal Logic, which Computation Theory uses.

    So, you have just FAILED to understand what you need to do to show
    something in COmputation Theory, which also shows that you don't
    really understand Epistimology, as you clearly don't undstand the
    concept of the Knowing of the Truth of Propositions, the idea of
    actual 'Facts'.

    FAIL.

    Have you really got nothing better to do with your time?

    /Flibble


    According to medical science I have terminal cancer with little time
    left. I intend my HP proof rebuttal to be my legacy.

    Since you already agreed that the pathological self-reference of the
    halting problem proofs makes these proof illegitimate I have no idea
    why you would be reversing course now.

    I am not reversing course: I still think you are correct however your argument with Richard Damon is going nowhere as he and most others
    cannot see (or refuse to see) the category error present in the basis
    for the proofs.

    /Flibble


    Do you have any suggestions of a way that I can proceed such that this
    category error can be clearly seen by others?

    The closest thing that I have found that might accomplish this is
    something along the lines of a much simpler analogy that
    Daryl McCullough came up with 6/25/04 on the sci.logic USENET group.

    I recently contacted him through Facebook and he is the original author
    of: "Jack's question" It took me many years to track down the original
    author of this original post. For many years I called it Bill's question
    and may have attributed the authorship to someone else. https://groups.google.com/g/sci.logic/c/4kIXI1kxmsI/m/hRroMoQZx2IJ

    You ask someone (we'll call him "Jack") to give a truthful
    yes/no answer to the following question:

    Will Jack's answer to this question be no?

    Jack can't possibly give a correct yes/no answer to the question.

    Daryl applied his analogy to Gödel's 1931 Incompleteness Theorem and
    Turing's Halting problem proof.




    By slightly adapting the halt status criterion measure a halt decider
    may be defined that correctly determines the halt status of the
    conventional halting problem proof counter-examples.

    Simple English version of Olcott's Halt status criterion measure:
    Every simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation of its
    input to prevent its infinite simulation correctly transitions to its
    reject state.

    Somewhat formalized version of Olcott's Halt status criterion measure:
    Let ⟨M⟩ describe a Turing machine M = (Q, Σ, Γ, δ, q₀, □, F), and let w
    be any element of Σ⁺, A solution of the halting problem is a Turing
    machine H, which for any ⟨M⟩ and w, performs the computation (Linz 1990:317)

    H.q0 ⟨M⟩ w ⊢* H.qy ----- iff UTM( ⟨M⟩, w ) reaches the final state of M
    H.q0 ⟨M⟩ w ⊢* H.qn ----- iff UTM( ⟨M⟩, w ) would never reach the final
    state of M

    RHS is a paraphrase of Ben Bacarisse encoding of my halt status
    criterion measure.


    --
    Copyright 2021 Pete Olcott

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    Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Python on Thu Feb 17 19:58:09 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math

    On 2/17/2022 7:35 PM, Python wrote:
    olcott wrote:
    [...]
    According to medical science I have terminal cancer with little time
    left. I intend my HP proof rebuttal to be my legacy.

    I'm really sorry to read this, and hope medical science will be wrong
    on this prediction.

    ...
    I have applied analogous reasoning to Gödel's 1931 incompleteness
    theorem, the Tarski Undefinability theorem and the Liar paradox. See
    also Wittgenstein's “notorious paragraph” about the Gödel Theorem.


    People wrote off his view as merely simplistic. Wittgenstein actually
    boiled Gödel's reasoning down to its barest essence and then pointed
    to its error. I was not aware that Wittgenstein's view agreed with
    mine until after I fully formed my own view.

    Proof that Wittgenstein is correct about Gödel
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    It's sad to see you losing your time on such a hopeless goal... Your
    rebuttal is wrong, HP proofs still stand, also does Gödel's theorems. Wittgenstein was completely off track on these issues, he wrote also
    a lot of blunders about Set Theory.

    Seriously, if ever you have little time left, don't trash this time
    in acting like a crank.


    If the 1931 Gödel Incompleteness Theorem, the 1936 Tarski Undefinability Theorem and what is currently referred to as Turing's Halting problem
    proof are all correct then truth itself is fundamentally broken.

    Since it is 100% perfectly impossible for truth itself to be
    fundamentally broken then it must be that the woefully fallible human
    notion of truth that is actually broken.

    Wittgenstein and I both understand that within the body of analytic
    truth (of the philosophical analytic versus synthetic distinction) the
    only way that one can know that any expression of language is true is by
    its proof that it is true, thus true and unprovable is a category error
    and Gödel must be wrong.

    This never occurs to the vast majority of people that learn all of these details by rote instead of thinking them all the way through from
    scratch. Elon Musk calls this: https://jamesclear.com/first-principles

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel

    --
    Copyright 2021 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 olcott@21:1/5 to Python on Thu Feb 17 20:31:15 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math

    On 2/17/2022 8:13 PM, Python wrote:
    olcott wrote:
    On 2/17/2022 7:35 PM, Python wrote:
    olcott wrote:
    [...]
    According to medical science I have terminal cancer with little time
    left. I intend my HP proof rebuttal to be my legacy.

    I'm really sorry to read this, and hope medical science will be wrong
    on this prediction.

    ...
    I have applied analogous reasoning to Gödel's 1931 incompleteness
    theorem, the Tarski Undefinability theorem and the Liar paradox. See
    also Wittgenstein's “notorious paragraph” about the Gödel Theorem. >>>

    People wrote off his view as merely simplistic. Wittgenstein
    actually boiled Gödel's reasoning down to its barest essence and
    then pointed to its error. I was not aware that Wittgenstein's view
    agreed with mine until after I fully formed my own view.

    Proof that Wittgenstein is correct about Gödel
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel




    It's sad to see you losing your time on such a hopeless goal... Your
    rebuttal is wrong, HP proofs still stand, also does Gödel's theorems.
    Wittgenstein was completely off track on these issues, he wrote also
    a lot of blunders about Set Theory.

    Seriously, if ever you have little time left, don't trash this time
    in acting like a crank.


    If the 1931 Gödel Incompleteness Theorem, the 1936 Tarski
    Undefinability Theorem and what is currently referred to as Turing's
    Halting problem proof are all correct then truth itself is
    fundamentally broken.

    Since it is 100% perfectly impossible for truth itself to be
    fundamentally broken then it must be that the woefully fallible human
    notion of truth that is actually broken.

    Wittgenstein and I both understand that within the body of analytic
    truth (of the philosophical analytic versus synthetic distinction) the
    only way that one can know that any expression of language is true is
    by its proof that it is true, thus true and unprovable is a category
    error and Gödel must be wrong.

    This never occurs to the vast majority of people that learn all of
    these details by rote instead of thinking them all the way through
    from scratch. Elon Musk calls this:
    https://jamesclear.com/first-principles

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    If you really think that every single one who did study the subject but
    you has no clue and only repeat what has been taught, then you are a delusional crank.

    Wittgenstein perfectly agrees and he was one of the leaders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism

    When we boil things down to their barest essence as Turing Award (1999)
    winner Fred Brooks suggests in his "No Silver Bullet—Essence and
    Accident in Software Engineering" we find Wittgenstein's view of 1931
    Gödel Incompleteness is exactly correct rather than a simplistic misunderstanding.

    The reason why I know this view is correct is the I discovered every
    single detail of Wittgenstein's view before I ever heard of Wittgenstein.

    For the entire body of analytic knowledge that includes all of math and
    logic no expression of language can be known to be true unless and until
    it is proven to be true. This makes 1931 Gödel Incompleteness incorrect
    before it even gets started.

    I dare you to find a single error of substance anywhere in my paper:

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel



    --
    Copyright 2021 Pete Olcott

    Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
    Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Thu Feb 17 21:08:24 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.math, sci.logic

    On 2/17/2022 9:02 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/22 1:44 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/17/2022 12:16 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 07:00:26 -0500
    Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote:

    On 2/17/22 12:36 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 11:33 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 10:54 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 2/16/22 11:22 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 10:17 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/22 11:09 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 9:56 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    Every simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation >>>>>>>>>> of its input to prevent its infinite simulation correctly
    transitions to its reject state.

    WRONG. You aren't following the right definitions.

    Try to actually PROVE your statement.

    Try to prove that a baby kitten is an animal and not the windows >>>>>>>> of an office building. It is all in the simple meaning of the
    words.

    RED HERRING.

    You just don't understand the difference betweeen FORMAL logic
    systems and informal ones.

    You have FAILED, but are too dumb to know it.

    Halting problem undecidability and infinitely nested simulation >>>>>>>> (V3)
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358009319_Halting_problem_undecidability_and_infinitely_nested_simulation_V3



    Your monument to your stupidity.

    Not ONE bit of formal prpof.

    FAIL.

    Maybe you can convince yourzelf that you have proven something,
    but if you want anyone who means anything to agree with you, you >>>>>>> have a VERY long wait.

    I think that you understand this deep in your heart, which is why >>>>>>> you just peddle your garbage on forums that don't require peer
    review to make statements.

    Every simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation of its >>>>>> input to prevent its infinite simulation correctly transitions to
    its reject state.

    You all know that what I say is self-evidently true.

    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.
    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.
    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.
    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.
    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct.

    Example:
    A simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation of its
    input to prevent its infinite simulation where this input halts on
    its own without being aborted.

    How about our H and the H" built from it.

    You have shown the H must abort its simulation of H" or H will never
    halt. That is accepted.

    BUT, When we look at the actual behavoir of H <H"> we see that we
    have the following trace:

    We start at H".Q0 <H">
    We go to H".Qx <H"> <H">
    since H".Qx has a copy of H at it, and we have said that H has
    supposedly correctly decided that H" <H"> is a non-halting
    computation, and thus aborts its simulation of its input and goes to
    H.Qn, we know that at  H" will go to H".Qn
    When H" goes to H".Qn, it Halts.

    THus we have shown that H" <H"> is non-halting

    Thus we have shown that H <H"> <H"> was wrong.

    Thus we HAVE the counter example that you claim does not exist.

    H is WRONG about H <H"> <H"> because if H goes to H.Qn for this
    input, BY DEFINITION, it means that the simple running opf H" applied
    to <H"> must never halt, but we have just shown that BECAUSE H <H">
    <H"> goes to H.Qn, that H"<H"> will also go to H".Qn and Halt, and
    thus H has violated its requirements, and thus is not correct.

    FAIL.


    You have just shown that you don't understand anything about formal
    logic or how to prove something.

    A claim that because someone hasn't produced a counter example means
    your statement must be true is just plain unsond logic.

    TTo claim something follows, 'by the meaning of the words' and not
    being able to show the actual FORMAL definitions being used to make
    that claim, is just unsound logic.

    FORMAL LOGIC doesn't accept crude rhetorical arguments, but only
    formal step by step proofs.

    All you have done is PROVED that you don't understand what you are
    doing, and you don't understand how to use formal logic.

    This is sort of understandable since you have revealed that you goal
    is just to try to establish an Epistemological statement, which isn't
    even a field of "Formal Logic', but Philosophy, so if that is the
    field you are used to talking in, you just don't have a background to
    handle Formal Logic, which Computation Theory uses.

    So, you have just FAILED to understand what you need to do to show
    something in COmputation Theory, which also shows that you don't
    really understand Epistimology, as you clearly don't undstand the
    concept of the Knowing of the Truth of Propositions, the idea of
    actual 'Facts'.

    FAIL.
    Have you really got nothing better to do with your time?

    /Flibble


    According to medical science I have terminal cancer with little time
    left. I intend my HP proof rebuttal to be my legacy.

    Since you already agreed that the pathological self-reference of the
    halting problem proofs makes these proof illegitimate I have no idea
    why you would be reversing course now.

    Excpe that you HAVEN'T shown the proofs to be illegitimate.

    Here is Flibble's reply:

    On 2/17/2022 1:48 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:44:05 -0600
    olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> wrote:

    Since you already agreed that the pathological self-reference of the
    halting problem proofs makes these proof illegitimate I have no idea
    why you would be reversing course now.

    I am not reversing course: I still think you are correct however your argument with Richard Damon is going nowhere as he and most others
    cannot see (or refuse to see) the category error present in the basis
    for the proofs.

    /Flibble



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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Python on Thu Feb 17 21:35:36 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math

    On 2/17/2022 9:06 PM, Python wrote:
    olcott wrote:
    On 2/17/2022 8:13 PM, Python wrote:
    olcott wrote:
    On 2/17/2022 7:35 PM, Python wrote:
    olcott wrote:
    [...]
    According to medical science I have terminal cancer with little
    time left. I intend my HP proof rebuttal to be my legacy.

    I'm really sorry to read this, and hope medical science will be wrong >>>>> on this prediction.

    ...
    I have applied analogous reasoning to Gödel's 1931 incompleteness >>>>>> theorem, the Tarski Undefinability theorem and the Liar paradox.
    See also Wittgenstein's “notorious paragraph” about the Gödel >>>>>> Theorem.


    People wrote off his view as merely simplistic. Wittgenstein
    actually boiled Gödel's reasoning down to its barest essence and
    then pointed to its error. I was not aware that Wittgenstein's
    view agreed with mine until after I fully formed my own view.

    Proof that Wittgenstein is correct about Gödel
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel






    It's sad to see you losing your time on such a hopeless goal... Your >>>>> rebuttal is wrong, HP proofs still stand, also does Gödel's theorems. >>>>> Wittgenstein was completely off track on these issues, he wrote also >>>>> a lot of blunders about Set Theory.

    Seriously, if ever you have little time left, don't trash this time
    in acting like a crank.


    If the 1931 Gödel Incompleteness Theorem, the 1936 Tarski
    Undefinability Theorem and what is currently referred to as Turing's
    Halting problem proof are all correct then truth itself is
    fundamentally broken.

    Since it is 100% perfectly impossible for truth itself to be
    fundamentally broken then it must be that the woefully fallible
    human notion of truth that is actually broken.

    Wittgenstein and I both understand that within the body of analytic
    truth (of the philosophical analytic versus synthetic distinction)
    the only way that one can know that any expression of language is
    true is by its proof that it is true, thus true and unprovable is a
    category error and Gödel must be wrong.

    This never occurs to the vast majority of people that learn all of
    these details by rote instead of thinking them all the way through
    from scratch. Elon Musk calls this:
    https://jamesclear.com/first-principles

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel




    If you really think that every single one who did study the subject but
    you has no clue and only repeat what has been taught, then you are a
    delusional crank.

    Wittgenstein perfectly agrees and he was one of the leaders
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism

    When we boil things down to their barest essence as Turing Award
    (1999) winner Fred Brooks suggests in his "No Silver Bullet—Essence
    and Accident in Software Engineering" we find Wittgenstein's view of
    1931 Gödel Incompleteness is exactly correct rather than a simplistic
    misunderstanding.

    The reason why I know this view is correct is the I discovered every
    single detail of Wittgenstein's view before I ever heard of Wittgenstein.

    This is quite weak a reason.

    Since I independently created all of his reasoning myself, I have
    first-hand knowledge of what he meant. I don't have to figure out what
    he meant second-hand, because I have first-hand knowledge of what he meant.

    I have boiled the error of the incompleteness theorem down to a single
    simple sentence.

    Try and find a single error of substance in my paper:
    Try and find a single error of substance in my paper:
    Try and find a single error of substance in my paper:
    Try and find a single error of substance in my paper:
    Try and find a single error of substance in my paper:

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel

    Even a bot can be a mere naysayer it doesn't even take a moron.


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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Python on Thu Feb 17 21:30:54 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math

    On 2/17/2022 9:12 PM, Python wrote:
    olcott wrote:
    On 2/17/2022 9:02 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/22 1:44 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/17/2022 12:16 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 07:00:26 -0500
    Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote:

    On 2/17/22 12:36 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 11:33 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 10:54 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 2/16/22 11:22 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 10:17 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/22 11:09 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 9:56 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    Every simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation >>>>>>>>>>>> of its input to prevent its infinite simulation correctly >>>>>>>>>>>> transitions to its reject state.

    WRONG. You aren't following the right definitions.

    Try to actually PROVE your statement.

    Try to prove that a baby kitten is an animal and not the windows >>>>>>>>>> of an office building. It is all in the simple meaning of the >>>>>>>>>> words.

    RED HERRING.

    You just don't understand the difference betweeen FORMAL logic >>>>>>>>> systems and informal ones.

    You have FAILED, but are too dumb to know it.

    Halting problem undecidability and infinitely nested simulation >>>>>>>>>> (V3)
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358009319_Halting_problem_undecidability_and_infinitely_nested_simulation_V3



    Your monument to your stupidity.

    Not ONE bit of formal prpof.

    FAIL.

    Maybe you can convince yourzelf that you have proven something, >>>>>>>>> but if you want anyone who means anything to agree with you, you >>>>>>>>> have a VERY long wait.

    I think that you understand this deep in your heart, which is why >>>>>>>>> you just peddle your garbage on forums that don't require peer >>>>>>>>> review to make statements.

    Every simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation of its >>>>>>>> input to prevent its infinite simulation correctly transitions to >>>>>>>> its reject state.

    You all know that what I say is self-evidently true.

    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct. >>>>>>>> The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct. >>>>>>>> The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct. >>>>>>>> The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct. >>>>>>>> The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct. >>>>>>>
    Example:
    A simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation of its
    input to prevent its infinite simulation where this input halts on >>>>>>> its own without being aborted.

    How about our H and the H" built from it.

    You have shown the H must abort its simulation of H" or H will never >>>>>> halt. That is accepted.

    BUT, When we look at the actual behavoir of H <H"> we see that we
    have the following trace:

    We start at H".Q0 <H">
    We go to H".Qx <H"> <H">
    since H".Qx has a copy of H at it, and we have said that H has
    supposedly correctly decided that H" <H"> is a non-halting
    computation, and thus aborts its simulation of its input and goes to >>>>>> H.Qn, we know that at  H" will go to H".Qn
    When H" goes to H".Qn, it Halts.

    THus we have shown that H" <H"> is non-halting

    Thus we have shown that H <H"> <H"> was wrong.

    Thus we HAVE the counter example that you claim does not exist.

    H is WRONG about H <H"> <H"> because if H goes to H.Qn for this
    input, BY DEFINITION, it means that the simple running opf H" applied >>>>>> to <H"> must never halt, but we have just shown that BECAUSE H <H"> >>>>>> <H"> goes to H.Qn, that H"<H"> will also go to H".Qn and Halt, and >>>>>> thus H has violated its requirements, and thus is not correct.

    FAIL.


    You have just shown that you don't understand anything about formal >>>>>> logic or how to prove something.

    A claim that because someone hasn't produced a counter example means >>>>>> your statement must be true is just plain unsond logic.

    TTo claim something follows, 'by the meaning of the words' and not >>>>>> being able to show the actual FORMAL definitions being used to make >>>>>> that claim, is just unsound logic.

    FORMAL LOGIC doesn't accept crude rhetorical arguments, but only
    formal step by step proofs.

    All you have done is PROVED that you don't understand what you are >>>>>> doing, and you don't understand how to use formal logic.

    This is sort of understandable since you have revealed that you goal >>>>>> is just to try to establish an Epistemological statement, which isn't >>>>>> even a field of "Formal Logic', but Philosophy, so if that is the
    field you are used to talking in, you just don't have a background to >>>>>> handle Formal Logic, which Computation Theory uses.

    So, you have just FAILED to understand what you need to do to show >>>>>> something in COmputation Theory, which also shows that you don't
    really understand Epistimology, as you clearly don't undstand the
    concept of the Knowing of the Truth of Propositions, the idea of
    actual 'Facts'.

    FAIL.
    Have you really got nothing better to do with your time?

    /Flibble


    According to medical science I have terminal cancer with little time
    left. I intend my HP proof rebuttal to be my legacy.

    Since you already agreed that the pathological self-reference of the
    halting problem proofs makes these proof illegitimate I have no idea
    why you would be reversing course now.

    Excpe that you HAVEN'T shown the proofs to be illegitimate.

    Here is Flibble's reply:

    Flibble is a well known crank and troll.

    You are wasting your time acting as a crank and looking for support
    from other cranks.


    I have boiled the error of the incompleteness theorem down to a single
    simple sentence. Try and find a single error of substance in my paper:

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel

    Even a bot can be a mere naysayer it doesn't even take a moron.

    --
    Copyright 2021 Pete Olcott

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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Thu Feb 17 22:06:29 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math

    On 2/17/2022 9:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 2/17/22 10:30 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/17/2022 9:12 PM, Python wrote:
    olcott wrote:
    On 2/17/2022 9:02 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/22 1:44 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/17/2022 12:16 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 07:00:26 -0500
    Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote:

    On 2/17/22 12:36 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 11:33 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 10:54 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 2/16/22 11:22 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 10:17 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/22 11:09 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/16/2022 9:56 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    Every simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation >>>>>>>>>>>>>> of its input to prevent its infinite simulation correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>> transitions to its reject state.

    WRONG. You aren't following the right definitions.

    Try to actually PROVE your statement.

    Try to prove that a baby kitten is an animal and not the >>>>>>>>>>>> windows
    of an office building. It is all in the simple meaning of the >>>>>>>>>>>> words.

    RED HERRING.

    You just don't understand the difference betweeen FORMAL logic >>>>>>>>>>> systems and informal ones.

    You have FAILED, but are too dumb to know it.

    Halting problem undecidability and infinitely nested simulation >>>>>>>>>>>> (V3)
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358009319_Halting_problem_undecidability_and_infinitely_nested_simulation_V3



    Your monument to your stupidity.

    Not ONE bit of formal prpof.

    FAIL.

    Maybe you can convince yourzelf that you have proven something, >>>>>>>>>>> but if you want anyone who means anything to agree with you, you >>>>>>>>>>> have a VERY long wait.

    I think that you understand this deep in your heart, which is >>>>>>>>>>> why
    you just peddle your garbage on forums that don't require peer >>>>>>>>>>> review to make statements.

    Every simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation >>>>>>>>>> of its
    input to prevent its infinite simulation correctly transitions to >>>>>>>>>> its reject state.

    You all know that what I say is self-evidently true.

    The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct. >>>>>>>>>> The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct. >>>>>>>>>> The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct. >>>>>>>>>> The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct. >>>>>>>>>> The fact that no counter-example exists proves that I am correct. >>>>>>>>>
    Example:
    A simulating halt decider that must abort the simulation of its >>>>>>>>> input to prevent its infinite simulation where this input halts on >>>>>>>>> its own without being aborted.

    How about our H and the H" built from it.

    You have shown the H must abort its simulation of H" or H will >>>>>>>> never
    halt. That is accepted.

    BUT, When we look at the actual behavoir of H <H"> we see that we >>>>>>>> have the following trace:

    We start at H".Q0 <H">
    We go to H".Qx <H"> <H">
    since H".Qx has a copy of H at it, and we have said that H has >>>>>>>> supposedly correctly decided that H" <H"> is a non-halting
    computation, and thus aborts its simulation of its input and
    goes to
    H.Qn, we know that at  H" will go to H".Qn
    When H" goes to H".Qn, it Halts.

    THus we have shown that H" <H"> is non-halting

    Thus we have shown that H <H"> <H"> was wrong.

    Thus we HAVE the counter example that you claim does not exist. >>>>>>>>
    H is WRONG about H <H"> <H"> because if H goes to H.Qn for this >>>>>>>> input, BY DEFINITION, it means that the simple running opf H"
    applied
    to <H"> must never halt, but we have just shown that BECAUSE H <H"> >>>>>>>> <H"> goes to H.Qn, that H"<H"> will also go to H".Qn and Halt, and >>>>>>>> thus H has violated its requirements, and thus is not correct. >>>>>>>>
    FAIL.


    You have just shown that you don't understand anything about formal >>>>>>>> logic or how to prove something.

    A claim that because someone hasn't produced a counter example >>>>>>>> means
    your statement must be true is just plain unsond logic.

    TTo claim something follows, 'by the meaning of the words' and not >>>>>>>> being able to show the actual FORMAL definitions being used to make >>>>>>>> that claim, is just unsound logic.

    FORMAL LOGIC doesn't accept crude rhetorical arguments, but only >>>>>>>> formal step by step proofs.

    All you have done is PROVED that you don't understand what you are >>>>>>>> doing, and you don't understand how to use formal logic.

    This is sort of understandable since you have revealed that you >>>>>>>> goal
    is just to try to establish an Epistemological statement, which >>>>>>>> isn't
    even a field of "Formal Logic', but Philosophy, so if that is the >>>>>>>> field you are used to talking in, you just don't have a
    background to
    handle Formal Logic, which Computation Theory uses.

    So, you have just FAILED to understand what you need to do to show >>>>>>>> something in COmputation Theory, which also shows that you don't >>>>>>>> really understand Epistimology, as you clearly don't undstand the >>>>>>>> concept of the Knowing of the Truth of Propositions, the idea of >>>>>>>> actual 'Facts'.

    FAIL.
    Have you really got nothing better to do with your time?

    /Flibble


    According to medical science I have terminal cancer with little
    time left. I intend my HP proof rebuttal to be my legacy.

    Since you already agreed that the pathological self-reference of
    the halting problem proofs makes these proof illegitimate I have
    no idea why you would be reversing course now.

    Excpe that you HAVEN'T shown the proofs to be illegitimate.

    Here is Flibble's reply:

    Flibble is a well known crank and troll.

    You are wasting your time acting as a crank and looking for support
    from other cranks.


    I have boiled the error of the incompleteness theorem down to a single
    simple sentence. Try and find a single error of substance in my paper:

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


    Even a bot can be a mere naysayer it doesn't even take a moron.


    Your logic is incorrect because you assume your conclusion as a premise.

    You use the WRONG definition of Truth, and assume that Truth can only be something that is proven, and then from that try to prove that Truth is
    only something that csn be proven.

    This is incorrect, and thus your whole arguement is invalid.

    For example, in mathematics, there are a number of statements that must either be True of False, there is no possible middle ground, but these statements have not been shown to be provable or disprovable. An example
    of this is the 3x+1 problem.

    Every expression of language does not count as true until after it has
    been proven. There are only two ways to determine if an analytical
    expression of language is true. It is an axiom that assigned the value
    of Boolean true. It is derived by sound deduction that is ultimately
    anchored in axioms.

    Haskell Curry (1977) cites this notion of axiom, quoted in the appendix
    of my paper.

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333907915_Proof_that_Wittgenstein_is_correct_about_Godel


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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Mr Flibble on Fri Feb 18 17:56:44 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math

    On 2/18/2022 5:42 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 23:21:27 -0500
    Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote:

    Again, this seems to make the logical error of assuming the
    conclusion, by assuming something as axiomatic that has not been
    accepted in the field as an axiom.

    When dealing with FORMAL logic systems, you are not allowed to
    introduce 'new' axioms.

    FAIL.


    Nonsense; a new axiom can be derived from one or more preexisting
    axioms.

    /Flibble


    Validity and Soundness
    A deductive argument is said to be valid if and only if it takes a form
    that makes it impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion nevertheless to be false. https://iep.utm.edu/val-snd/

    cows are not dogs
    cows are not airplanes
    ∴ butterflies have wings

    The above definition of a valid argument makes the above conclusion
    logically entailed by its premises even though the conclusion is totally unrelated to its premises.

    The key change that I am making is to the above definition of valid
    inference is that I am changing it back to the way it was before logic
    diverged from the model of the syllogism. (semantically related is
    required).

    A deductive argument is said to be valid if and only if it takes a form
    that makes the conclusion a necessary consequence of its premises.

    --
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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Fri Feb 18 18:29:58 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math

    On 2/18/2022 6:07 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/18/22 6:56 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/18/2022 5:42 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 23:21:27 -0500
    Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote:

    Again, this seems to make the logical error of assuming the
    conclusion, by assuming something as axiomatic that has not been
    accepted in the field as an axiom.

    When dealing with FORMAL logic systems, you are not allowed to
    introduce 'new' axioms.

    FAIL.


    Nonsense; a new axiom can be derived from one or more preexisting
    axioms.

    /Flibble


    Validity and Soundness
    A deductive argument is said to be valid if and only if it takes a
    form that makes it impossible for the premises to be true and the
    conclusion nevertheless to be false. https://iep.utm.edu/val-snd/

    cows are not dogs
    cows are not airplanes
    ∴ butterflies have wings

    The above definition of a valid argument makes the above conclusion
    logically entailed by its premises even though the conclusion is
    totally unrelated to its premises.

    The key change that I am making is to the above definition of valid
    inference is that I am changing it back to the way it was before logic
    diverged from the model of the syllogism. (semantically related is
    required).

    A deductive argument is said to be valid if and only if it takes a
    form that makes the conclusion a necessary consequence of its premises.


    And what does this actual achieve? (except making it harder to do things).


    It defines the notion of correct reasoning and realigns logic with
    Aristotle's syllogism requiring a semantic connection between the
    premises and conclusion.

    It over-rides and supersedes the classical logic definition of logical entailment to make the word "proven" regain its common meaning.

    We can no longer correctly say that "butterflies have wings" is "proven"
    on the basis that "cows are not dogs" and "cows are not airplanes".
    The principle of explosion is also cancelled by this change.


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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Fri Feb 18 20:04:30 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math

    On 2/18/2022 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/18/22 7:29 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/18/2022 6:07 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/18/22 6:56 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/18/2022 5:42 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 23:21:27 -0500
    Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote:

    Again, this seems to make the logical error of assuming the
    conclusion, by assuming something as axiomatic that has not been
    accepted in the field as an axiom.

    When dealing with FORMAL logic systems, you are not allowed to
    introduce 'new' axioms.

    FAIL.


    Nonsense; a new axiom can be derived from one or more preexisting
    axioms.

    /Flibble


    Validity and Soundness
    A deductive argument is said to be valid if and only if it takes a
    form that makes it impossible for the premises to be true and the
    conclusion nevertheless to be false. https://iep.utm.edu/val-snd/

    cows are not dogs
    cows are not airplanes
    ∴ butterflies have wings

    The above definition of a valid argument makes the above conclusion
    logically entailed by its premises even though the conclusion is
    totally unrelated to its premises.

    The key change that I am making is to the above definition of valid
    inference is that I am changing it back to the way it was before
    logic diverged from the model of the syllogism. (semantically
    related is required).

    A deductive argument is said to be valid if and only if it takes a
    form that makes the conclusion a necessary consequence of its premises. >>>>

    And what does this actual achieve? (except making it harder to do
    things).


    It defines the notion of correct reasoning and realigns logic with
    Aristotle's syllogism requiring a semantic connection between the
    premises and conclusion.

    Which does WHAT, ACTUALLY?

    What useful statement does this allow you to prove, or false premise it allows you to keep from proving.



    It over-rides and supersedes the classical logic definition of logical
    entailment to make the word "proven" regain its common meaning.

    No, it doesn't. since the need to prove your arguement means that the conclusion actually has been proven.

    I suppose the one advantage would be it would disallow arguements based
    on always false premises, which can then 'prove' false conclusions, but
    that arguement can't actually be used anyway (even though you try).


    We can no longer correctly say that "butterflies have wings" is
    "proven" on the basis that "cows are not dogs" and "cows are not
    airplanes".
    The principle of explosion is also cancelled by this change.


    Except that you never could say that, all you could say is that
    butterflys have wings because it has been proven that since caows are
    not dogs and cows are not airplains together are sufficient to show that butterflies have wings. Which is true,

    Although it is true that butterflies have wings it is incorrect to
    conclude this entirely on the basis that cows are not dogs and cows are
    not airplanes.

    That is why my correction to the definition of a valid argument is
    required.


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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 18 20:19:42 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math

    On 2/18/2022 8:10 PM, André G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2022-02-18 16:56, olcott wrote:
    On 2/18/2022 5:42 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 23:21:27 -0500
    Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote:

    Again, this seems to make the logical error of assuming the
    conclusion, by assuming something as axiomatic that has not been
    accepted in the field as an axiom.

    When dealing with FORMAL logic systems, you are not allowed to
    introduce 'new' axioms.

    FAIL.


    Nonsense; a new axiom can be derived from one or more preexisting
    axioms.

    /Flibble


    Validity and Soundness
    A deductive argument is said to be valid if and only if it takes a
    form that makes it impossible for the premises to be true and the
    conclusion nevertheless to be false. https://iep.utm.edu/val-snd/

    cows are not dogs
    cows are not airplanes
    ∴ butterflies have wings

    The above definition of a valid argument makes the above conclusion
    logically entailed by its premises even though the conclusion is
    totally unrelated to its premises.

    You really need to take a course on preremedial logic. The above
    argument is *not* valid in any standard logic; the conclusion is
    decidedly *not* entailed by the premises, so whatever problem you think
    you are pointing to exists only in your head.

    André


    According to the English definition of a valid argument that I quoted
    above it is. This is apparently the standard definition.

    In any case the divergence from the semantic relevance required by the syllogism is restored when we simply say that a valid argument requires
    that the conclusion be a necessary consequence of the premises. The
    other way to say this is that the conclusion is only derived by applying
    truth preserving operations to the premises.

    This change also gets rid of the principle of explosion.

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    Copyright 2021 Pete Olcott

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    Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 19 08:10:41 2022
    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math

    On 2/18/2022 11:33 PM, André G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2022-02-18 19:19, olcott wrote:
    On 2/18/2022 8:10 PM, André G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2022-02-18 16:56, olcott wrote:
    On 2/18/2022 5:42 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 23:21:27 -0500
    Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote:

    Again, this seems to make the logical error of assuming the
    conclusion, by assuming something as axiomatic that has not been
    accepted in the field as an axiom.

    When dealing with FORMAL logic systems, you are not allowed to
    introduce 'new' axioms.

    FAIL.


    Nonsense; a new axiom can be derived from one or more preexisting
    axioms.

    /Flibble


    Validity and Soundness
    A deductive argument is said to be valid if and only if it takes a
    form that makes it impossible for the premises to be true and the
    conclusion nevertheless to be false. https://iep.utm.edu/val-snd/

    cows are not dogs
    cows are not airplanes
    ∴ butterflies have wings

    The above definition of a valid argument makes the above conclusion
    logically entailed by its premises even though the conclusion is
    totally unrelated to its premises.

    You really need to take a course on preremedial logic. The above
    argument is *not* valid in any standard logic; the conclusion is
    decidedly *not* entailed by the premises, so whatever problem you
    think you are pointing to exists only in your head.

    André


    According to the English definition of a valid argument that I quoted
    above it is. This is apparently the standard definition.

    No, it isn't. I have absolutely no idea how you could possibly reach
    this conclusion. But it makes it very clear that you don't understand
    the definition you are citing at all.


    Sometimes when I come up with reasoning on the fly I make mistakes here
    is the correction.

    The definition explicitly states that an argument is valid:
    if it takes a form that makes it impossible for the premises to be true
    and the conclusion nevertheless to be false. https://iep.utm.

    My reasoning was correct my example was not apt, here is a new example:

    It is raining
    It is not raining
    ∴ George Washington is made of rakes.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoxes_of_material_implication
    It is impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion false.

    My correction for this divergence from correct reasoning is to define a
    valid argument such that the conclusion is a necessary consequence of
    its premises.



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

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