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   Tristan Wibberley to Mikko   
   Re: A new category of thought   
   08 Dec 25 06:12:56   
   
   XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math   
   From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk   
      
   On 07/12/2025 10:42, Mikko wrote:   
   > olcott kirjoitti 6.12.2025 klo 14.33:   
   >> No one ever understands that my mathematical formal   
   >> system includes the entire body of human general   
   >> knowledge encoded in formalized English.   
      
   Liar.   
      
   > Maybe because it is well understood that no formal system that can   
   > be presented includes the entire body of human general knowledge.   
   >   
      
   Unless it also includes everything that is not of human general   
   knowledge. Infinite monkeys and so forth.   
      
   Olcott already said it was a semantic tautology, after all. Which is a   
   fancy way of saying that it's a system for universal semantic analysis   
   so it contains all possible meaning associations including those that   
   are of the body of human general knowledge.   
      
   Once he said it was a semantic tautology it was not possible to be   
   surprising.   
      
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