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|    Richard Damon to olcott    |
|    Re: The Halting Problem asks for too muc    |
|    14 Jan 26 22:51:56    |
      [continued from previous message]              > grounded in the structure of derivations rather than in an abstract       > mathematical object.              Which can't handle the infinite set of the Natural Numbers.              I guess you are just admitting that you goal of computing truth must be       impossible, as we can't handle that level of abstractions.              >       > I use “denotational semantics” simply to refer to any framework       > that assigns meanings independently of operational behavior.       >              Which are just limited systems.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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