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|    Re: A new foundation for correct reasoni    |
|    29 Nov 25 12:20:25    |
      XPost: sci.logic, comp.theory, sci.math       From: mikko.levanto@iki.fi              olcott kirjoitti 28.11.2025 klo 17.54:       > On 11/28/2025 3:01 AM, Mikko wrote:       >> olcott kirjoitti 27.11.2025 klo 17.43:       >>> On 11/27/2025 2:00 AM, Mikko wrote:       >>>> 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.       >>       >>> Then Gödel would be wrong.       >>       >> No, what he said was perfectly true about what the words meant       >> at the time. Your preferences may differ but there is no right       >> or wrong in matters of taste.       >       > There is a correct mapping of finite strings       > to the semantic meaning that they specify.              Yes, amd accoprding to that mapping what Gödel said is true.              --       Mikko              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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