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|    olcott to Tristan Wibberley    |
|    Re: A new category of thought    |
|    01 Dec 25 19:50:55    |
      XPost: comp.theory, sci.math, sci.lang       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 12/1/2025 7:13 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       > On 29/11/2025 23:19, olcott wrote:       >       >> Gödel, Kurt 1931.       >> On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica And       >> Related Systems       >       > Do you have a reference to the original and also English translation of       > his 1938 paper "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia       > Mathematica And Related Systems II"?       > ^^       >              Gödel, Kurt 1931.       On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica And       Related Systems              https://monoskop.org/images/9/93/Kurt_G%C3%B6del_On_Formally_Und       cidable_Propositions_of_Principia_Mathematica_and_Related_Systems_1992.pdf                     I never look at things in terms of their complex verbosity.       As a software engineer with decades of experience I boil       them down to their breast essence.              > His 1931 paper says he'll followup with a completed proof and       > generalisation to more systems - so I think that's what we have to look       > at to understand what people refer to as his first incompleteness proof       > and theorem. I've been told (albeit by a chatbot) that the title and       > year above is what I should look for.       >       >       >> If you think that I am wrong then don't fucking guess       >> show exactly what his sentence actually says without       >> the ruse of Gödel numbers in a language has its own       >> self-reference operator and provability operator.       >       > You've gone off the deep end there.       >              Maybe with the swearing, these people have proven to       be incorrigible, that is why I blocked half of them.              >       >> I say it says this:       >> G := (F ⊬ G) // G says of itself that it is unprovable in F       >       >       > It says that G is not a theorem of F, and perhaps it does so              That is short-hand.              > epitheoretically because of the use of ":=" which often nominates a       > substitution to apply to get an object of F, and that would /almost/       > trivially make it true, albeit not for all possible F.       >              *YACC Syntax of Olcott Minimal Type Theory*       https://philarchive.org/archive/PETMTT-4v2       I used the "defined as" operator to allow       direct self-reference.              > "[fact] in [a system]" conventionally can mean [fact] for all definition       > extensions of [a system] when mathematicians are talking because they       > add definitions when using the system and examine the consequences "/in/       > the system". The prepositions are ambiguous across specialisms, clearly.       >              I mean every fact that can be axiomatized in the       the verbal model of the actual world.              "cats" |
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