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   Message 57,942 of 59,235   
   olcott to Richard Heathfield   
   Re: What expressions of language are log   
   01 Oct 25 17:29:50   
   
   XPost: sci.logic, comp.theory   
   From: polcott333@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/1/2025 3:48 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:   
   > On 01/10/2025 21:40, olcott wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > How do you derive that from anything he has said?   
   >   
      
   I will use Socratic questioning so that you figure out   
   the answer on your own or prove your own ignorance.   
   Exactly what kinds of expressions of English are impossibly false?   
   (I used the term logically certain to mean impossibly false)   
      
      
      
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