XPost: sci.logic, comp.theory
From: polcott333@gmail.com
On 10/1/2025 2:58 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 2025-10-01, olcott wrote:
>> This has been my primary research focus since 1997.
>> I will try to sum this up succinctly.
>>
>> Expressions of language pertaining to physical reality
>> can never be logically certain because they depend on
>> underlying assumptions that are not logically certain.
>
> Right off the bat you show yourself to be out of your depth, having
> forgotten first or second year undergrad topics in logic.
>
> You can make statements which are unsassailably certain from a logical
> perspective, yet which combine together propositions that are blatantly
> false in the world.
>
In other words you think that cats might not be animals.
> The truths of propostions are not logically certain or uncertain: they
> are not logically anything!
>
Did you seem me use the term "propositions" anywhere here?
I always use the big picture "Expressions of language" and
never use the narrow minded term: propositions.
> Logic doesn't care about hwo truths of propositions are ascertained;
> that only involves logic when logical inference is needed (in some way)
> as a tool in evaluating a proposition.
>
When ever I use terms I ONLY mean The Frege principle of
compositionality meaning of the common meaning of the
base terms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_compositionality
By logically certain I only mean impossibly false.
> Whether a proposition is true (in some understood universe of discourse)
> isn't "logical" or not.
>
Why don't you quit being a jerk and try to actually
understand what I am saying?
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