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|    olcott to Tristan Wibberley    |
|    =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_readers_are_conned_into_    |
|    30 Dec 25 08:32:34    |
      XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 12/29/2025 11:49 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       > On 30/12/2025 04:35, olcott wrote:       >       >> ...We are therefore confronted with a proposition       >> which asserts its own unprovability. 15 … (Gödel 1931:40-41)       >>       >> Correctly paraphrased as:       >> a sequence of inference steps from axioms       >> that assert that they themselves do not exist.       >       > No they don't. That's an interpretation outside the system. The axioms       > merely force you to conclude that some symbol or other is not negation       > and/or another one is not a reference to the system itself when fools       > think they both /are/ those things.       >       >              G := (F ⊬ G)       a sequence of inference steps in F from the axioms       of F that assert that they themselves do not exist in F.              --       Copyright 2025 Olcott |
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