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   Message 261,407 of 262,912   
   polcott to Mikko   
   Re: Final Resolution of the Liar Paradox   
   28 Nov 25 08:03:52   
   
   XPost: comp.theory, sci.math   
   From: polcott333@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/28/2025 2:06 AM, Mikko wrote:   
   > olcott kirjoitti 27.11.2025 klo 18.28:   
   >> On 11/27/2025 8:36 AM, olcott wrote:   
   >>> This sentence is not true.   
   >>> It is not true about what?   
   >>> It is not true about being not true.   
   >>> It is not true about being not true about what?   
   >>> It is not true about being not true about being not true.   
   >>> Oh I see you are stuck in a loop!   
   >>>   
   >>> The simple English shows that the Liar Paradox never   
   >>> gets to the point.   
   >>>   
   >>> This is formalized in the Prolog programming language   
   >>> ?- LP = not(true(LP)).   
   >>> LP = not(true(LP)).   
   >>> ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).   
   >>> False.   
   >>>   
   >>> Failing an occurs check seems to mean that the   
   >>> resolution of an expression remains stuck in   
   >>> infinite recursion. This is more clearly seen below.   
   >>>   
   >>> In Olcott's Minimal Type Theory   
   >>> LP := ~True(LP)    // LP {is defined as} ~True(LP)   
   >>> that expands to ~True(~True(~True(~True(~True(~True(...))))))   
   >>> https://philarchive.org/archive/PETMTT-4v2   
   >>>   
   >>> The above seems to prove that the Liar Paradox   
   >>> has merely been semantically unsound all these years.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> *Final Resolution of the Liar Paradox*   
   >> https://philpapers.org/archive/OLCFRO.pdf   
   >   
   > Nothing is final in philosophy.   
   >   
   > For the most common forms of formal logic this paradox is not possible   
   > because there is no syntax for definitions.   
   >   
      
   Lookup Olcott's Minimal Type Theory   
   I created Olcott's Minimal Type Theory   
   for the sole purpose of formalizing   
   Pathological-self-reference(Olcott 2004)   
      
   LP := ~True(LP)    // LP {is defined as} ~True(LP)   
   that expands to ~True(~True(~True(~True(~True(~True(...))))))   
      
   G := (F ⊬ G)  // G is defined as unprovable in F   
   ...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which   
   asserts its own unprovability. 15 … (Gödel 1931:40-41)   
      
   Gödel, Kurt 1931.   
   On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia   
   Mathematica And Related Systems   
      
      
      
   --   
   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.   
      
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