XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic   
   From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk   
      
   On 19/12/2025 00:53, Richard Damon wrote:   
   > the whole purpose of Computation Theory is to determine what   
   > questions are computable, that is just nonsense/   
      
   You can couch it as "to determine which sentences enquire of properties."   
      
   The reduction rules of the system provide meaning for the sentence; in   
   that sentence the answer is encoded wrt. those rules or else there is no   
   answer.   
      
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