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   Re: How teach logic? [The Jokes] (Re: Pe   
   18 Nov 25 16:02:06   
   
   XPost: comp.theory, comp.lang.prolog   
   From: polcott333@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/18/2025 3:46 PM, Mild Shock wrote:   
      
      
   *I remember you in the Prolog Group*   
   *I remember you in the Prolog Group*   
   *I remember you in the Prolog Group*   
      
   The Liar Paradox formalized in the Prolog Programming language   
      
   This sentence is not true.   
   It is not true about what?   
   It is not true about being not true.   
   It is not true about being not true about what?   
   It is not true about being not true about being not true.   
   Oh I see you are stuck in a loop!   
      
      
   This is formalized in the Prolog programming language   
   ?- LP = not(true(LP)).   
   LP = not(true(LP)).   
   ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).   
   false.   
      
   Failing an occurs check seems to mean that the   
   resolution of an expression remains stuck in   
   an infinite loop. Just as the formalized Prolog   
   determines that there is a cycle in the directed   
   graph of the evaluation sequence of LP the simple   
   English proves that the Liar Paradox never gets   
   to the point. It has merely been semantically   
   unsound all these years.   
      
   --   
   Copyright 2025 Olcott   
      
   My 28 year goal has been to make   
   "true on the basis of meaning" computable.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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