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?   
   >   
      
   He mistook my term [logically certain] as some   
   reference to symbolic logic and it is not. He   
   did understand the essence by his later reference   
   to epistemology, the kind of logic that I am   
   getting quite good at.   
      
   The science of correct reasoning...   
      
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