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|    olcott to Mikko    |
|    Re: A new foundation for correct reasoni    |
|    26 Nov 25 09:39:06    |
      XPost: sci.logic, comp.theory, sci.math       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 11/26/2025 5:37 AM, Mikko wrote:       > olcott kirjoitti 25.11.2025 klo 16.21:       >> On 11/25/2025 3:40 AM, Mikko wrote:       >>> olcott kirjoitti 25.11.2025 klo 2.53:       >>>> Eliminating undecidability and mathematical incompleteness       >>>> merely requires discarding model theory and fully integrating       >>>> semantics directly into the syntax of the formal language.       >>>>       >>>> The only inference step allowed is semantic logical       >>>> entailment and this is performed syntactically. A formal       >>>> language such as Montague Grammar or CycL of the Cyc       >>>> project can encode the semantics of anything that can       >>>> be expressed in language.       >>>       >>> The resulting theory is not formal unless both the definition of       >>> semantics and the definition of semantic logical entailment are       >>> fully formal.       >>>       >>>       >>       >> https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montague-semantics/       >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CycL       >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)       >>       >> *This was my original inspiration*       >> Kurt Gödel in his 1944 Russell's mathematical logic gave the following       >> definition of the "theory of simple types" in a footnote:       >>       >> By the theory of simple types I mean the doctrine which says that the       >> objects of thought (or, in another interpretation, the symbolic       >> expressions) are divided into types, namely: individuals, properties       >> of individuals, relations between individuals, properties of such       >> relations, etc. (with a similar hierarchy for extensions), and that       >> sentences of the form: " a has the property φ ", " b bears the       >> relation R to c ", etc. are meaningless, if a, b, c, R, φ are not of       >> types fitting together.       >       > That is a constraint on the language. Note that individuals of all sorts       > are considered to be of the same type. For properies and relation the       > alternative would be that a predicate is false if any of the arguments       > are of wrong type. For functions it is harder to find a reasonable value       > if an argument is of wrong type.       >       > This is of course irrelevant to the point that the resulting theory is       > not formal unless both the definition of semantics and the definition of       > semantic logical entailment are fully formal.       >              The body of knowledge is defined in terms of Rudolf Carnap Meaning       Postulates and stored in a knowledge ontology inheritance hierarchy.              The predicate Bachelor(x) is stipulated to mean ~Married(x) where the       predicate Married(x) is defined in terms of billions of other things       such as all of the details of Human(x).              --       Copyright 2025 Olcott              My 28 year goal has been to make       "true on the basis of meaning" computable.              This required establishing a new foundation       for correct reasoning.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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