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   Tristan Wibberley to olcott   
   Re: A new foundation for correct reasoni   
   12 Dec 25 13:16:43   
   
   XPost: sci.logic   
   From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk   
      
   On 25/11/2025 00:53, olcott wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   From which we should be able to infer that model theory can be   
   /embedded/ rather than /discarded/:   
      
   "Eliminating undecidability and mathematical incompleteness merely   
   requires /subsuming/ model theory and ..."   
      
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