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|    olcott to Kaz Kylheku    |
|    Re: Done with Olcott. --- Kaz cannot thi    |
|    29 Nov 25 08:20:43    |
      [continued from previous message]              > genuine quotation marks in the usual sense (e.g., denoting the       > expression ‘inside’ them). Hence, the sense in which such languages       > have reference to sentences is delicate. Yet with very minimal       > resources, syntax can be represented and diagonal sentences       > constructed. Hence, there is a sense, albeit subtle, in which such       > languages can express self-reference. See the entries on provability       > logic and Gödel (the section on the incompleteness theorems), as well       > as Heck (2007)."       >              I created Olcott's Minimal Type Theory to get around       all that screwy nonsense. LP := ~True(LP) specifies       ~True(~True(~True(~True(~True(~True(...))))))       https://philarchive.org/archive/PETMTT-4v2              > Nowhere does your paper say that "This sentence is false" is       > diagonal by use of the pronoun. You need quoting!       >              You must pay attention to the MTT language specification.       provided above. Especially the "defined as" operator: :=              > Diagonalization presupposes that there is a table. The table       > combines somethng from the rows and columns and only certain       > combinations are diagonal.       >              It hides all the of underlying semantic details and       leaps to a conclusion.              > "This sentence is false" just doesn't have the moving parts       > and pieces in it.       >              Google [Olcott's Minimal Type Theory]       LP := ~True(LP) // LP says of itself that it is not true       It expands to: ~True(~True(~True(~True(~True(~True(...))))))              > You simply don't know how to read papers or think.       >              You don't even glance at what I say before you judge it.              --       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.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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