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|    olcott to Tristan Wibberley    |
|    Re: A new foundation for correct reasoni    |
|    03 Dec 25 20:39:07    |
      XPost: sci.logic, comp.theory, sci.math       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 12/3/2025 8:32 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       > On 30/11/2025 09:58, Mikko wrote:       >       >> Note that the meanings of       >> ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).       >> and       >> ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).       >> are different. The former assigns a value to G, the latter does not.       >>       >       > For sufficiently informal definitions of "value".       > And for sufficiently wrong ones too!       >              % This sentence cannot be proven in F       ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).       G = not(provable(F, G)).       ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).       false.              I would say that the above Prolog is the 100%       complete formal specification of:              "This sentence cannot be proven in F"              that totally and unequivocally rejects it       as semantically unsound.              ...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which       asserts its own unprovability. 15 … (Gödel 1931:40-41)              When we hypothesize that the above sentence does       accurately sum up the essence of his theorem (it might not)       then within this hypothesis his theorem has been refuted.              --       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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