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|    Tristan Wibberley to olcott    |
|    Re: Rejecting expressions of formal lang    |
|    14 Nov 25 01:02:52    |
      XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math       From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk              On 14/11/2025 00:45, olcott wrote:       > On 11/13/2025 6:09 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       >> On 12/11/2025 17:57, olcott wrote:       >>> On 11/12/2025 8:45 AM, olcott wrote:       >>       >> Noisy:       >>       >>>> This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true"       >>>> is true only because the inner sentence is semantically       >>>> unsound.       >>       >> Woah! Because your post provides some meaning for the interpretation of       >> your paper I think the above needs to be addressed.       >>       >> We have the name of a sentence "This sentence is not true"       >> We have a sentence about it:       >>       >> "This sentence is not true" is true only because the inner sentence is       >> semantically unsound.       >>       >> And we have a sentence that is constructed like a lambda expression but       >> using something a bit like a de bruijn reference turned inside out:       >>       >> This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true" is true only       >> because the inner sentence is semantically unsound.       >>       >> but with a noisy surrounding fluff beta-ish-reducing to:       >>       >> ["This sentence is not true" is true only because the inner sentence is       >> semantically unsound] is not true       >>       >       > This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true" is true.       > You can't put the quotes in a different place without changing       > the semantics.              You haven't tried to understand what I wrote. You have just guessed at a       response.                     --       Tristan Wibberley              The message body is Copyright (C) 2025 Tristan Wibberley except       citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,       of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it       verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to       promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation       of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general       superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train       any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that       will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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