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|    Re: A new foundation for correct reasoni    |
|    27 Nov 25 10:00:46    |
      XPost: sci.logic, comp.theory, sci.math       From: mikko.levanto@iki.fi              olcott kirjoitti 26.11.2025 klo 17.54:       > 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.       >       > An individual house, person, orange, piece of pie,       > is not a group of houses, people, oranges, pieces of pie.              In the type system Gödel called minimal all of those would be       individuals and therefore of the same type.              --       Mikko              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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