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|    olcott to Tristan Wibberley    |
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|    30 Dec 25 15:41:57    |
      XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 12/30/2025 3:34 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       > On 30/12/2025 20:59, Richard Damon wrote:       >> On 12/30/25 3:35 PM, olcott wrote:       >>> On 12/30/2025 2:22 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       >>>> On 30/12/2025 14:32, olcott wrote:       >>>>       >>>>> 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.       >>>>       >>>> You suppose that's what the symbols mean. Yet you know that supposition       >>>> is inadmissible per-Se. Cognitive dissonance in action.       >>>>       >>>       >>> The symbols *mean* a self-contradictory expression of language       >>> the same sort of thing as: "this sentence is not true".       >>       >> But it doesn't, as it is satisfiable by a statement that is true but       >> unprovable, which just mean the statement is established true by an       >> infinite chain of infernce       >       > Are you using a finite derivation in the meta-system of the limit of a       > converging sequence of finite derivations of increasing length (whose       > terminals may or may not be the statement being proved but the limit of       > whose terminals /is/)?       >       > And thus you say the statement is true thereby exemplifying a point from       > which we may inductively infer a meaning for "true"? Is that "true of       > the system in the meta-system" ?       >              True in the system can only really mean provable       from the axioms of this same system any other       meaning is nonsense.              --       Copyright 2025 Olcott |
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