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|    Alan Mackenzie to olcott    |
|    Re: A new foundation for correct reasoni    |
|    29 Nov 25 20:48:31    |
      [continued from previous message]              > Arithmetic is merely insufficiently expressive, the body of knowledge       > that can be expressed in language knows that.              No, the body of knowledge that can be represented as you envisage       wouldn't come up to the level of a stone-age person.              >> That is a proof by contradiction that such a body of       >> knowledge cannot exist.              > Not at all.              How can you say that? You don't understand proof by contradiction,       remember?              > Arithmetic is merely insufficiently expressive.       > While you attempt to come up with counter-examples know       > that dogma does not count.              I don't know what you mean by dogma. I'm talking about proven results       like 2 + 2 = 4. You're just ignorant, because you don't have the       background needed to test these results, but you reject them just because       you don't like them. You're an idiot, in other words.              > A counter-example would be an element of knowledge       > that can be expressed in language that:       > (a) Cannot be expressed in language.       > (b) Is not true. (All knowledge is true)              That would indeed be a counter example. But given there is no suspicion       that such a construct of knowledge could be complete, no proof, no       attempt at a proof, there is nothing to give a counter example to.              > That is what I mean by counter-examples are       > categorically impossible              Your complete system of knowledge is categorically impossible.              > --        > Copyright 2025 Olcott              > My 28 year goal has been to make       > "true on the basis of meaning" computable.              > This required establishing a new foundation       > for correct reasoning.              --        Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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