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|    olcott to Mikko    |
|    Re: A new foundation for correct reasoni    |
|    25 Nov 25 08:21:49    |
      XPost: comp.theory, sci.math, comp.ai.philosophy       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 11/25/2025 3:40 AM, Mikko wrote:       > olcott kirjoitti 25.11.2025 klo 2.53:       >> Eliminating undecidability and mathematical incompleteness       >> merely requires discarding model theory and fully integrating       >> semantics directly into the syntax of the formal language.       >>       >> The only inference step allowed is semantic logical       >> entailment and this is performed syntactically. A formal       >> language such as Montague Grammar or CycL of the Cyc       >> project can encode the semantics of anything that can       >> be expressed in language.       >       > The resulting theory is not formal unless both the definition of       > semantics and the definition of semantic logical entailment are       > fully formal.       >       >              https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montague-semantics/       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CycL       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)              *This was my original inspiration*       Kurt Gödel in his 1944 Russell's mathematical logic gave the following       definition of the "theory of simple types" in a footnote:              By the theory of simple types I mean the doctrine which says that the       objects of thought (or, in another interpretation, the symbolic       expressions) are divided into types, namely: individuals, properties of       individuals, relations between individuals, properties of such       relations, etc. (with a similar hierarchy for extensions), and that       sentences of the form: " a has the property φ ", " b bears the relation       R to c ", etc. are meaningless, if a, b, c, R, φ are not of types       fitting together.                     --       Copyright 2025 Olcott              My 28 year goal has been to make       "true on the basis of meaning" computable.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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