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   14 Jan 26 16:11:16   
   
   XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math   
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   From: polcott333@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/14/2026 3:36 PM, olcott wrote:   
   > Interpreting incompleteness as a gap between mathematical truth and   
   > proof depends on truth-conditional semantics; once this is replaced by   
   > proof-theoretic semantics a framework not yet sufficiently developed at   
   > the time of Gödel’s proof the notion of such a gap becomes unfounded.   
   >   
      
   Gödel and Turing incompleteness results expose the limits of   
   denotational and truth-conditional semantics, not limits of proof or   
   computation per se. When meaning is grounded operationally or   
   proof-theoretically, the problematic self-referential constructions are   
   rejected as semantically unfounded rather than treated as determinate   
   but unknowable facts.   
      
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