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|    olcott to Tristan Wibberley    |
|    Re: A new category of thought    |
|    08 Dec 25 07:59:02    |
      XPost: comp.theory, sci.math, sci.lang       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 12/8/2025 12:12 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       > On 07/12/2025 10:42, Mikko wrote:       >> olcott kirjoitti 6.12.2025 klo 14.33:       >>> No one ever understands that my mathematical formal       >>> system includes the entire body of human general       >>> knowledge encoded in formalized English.       >       > Liar.       >       >> Maybe because it is well understood that no formal system that can       >> be presented includes the entire body of human general knowledge.       >>       >       > Unless it also includes everything that is not of human general       > knowledge. Infinite monkeys and so forth.       >       > Olcott already said it was a semantic tautology, after all. Which is a       > fancy way of saying that it's a system for universal semantic analysis       > so it contains all possible meaning associations including those that       > are of the body of human general knowledge.       >       > Once he said it was a semantic tautology it was not possible to be       > surprising.       >       > The difficult bit is as for a sculptor; to carve away those things that       > are /not/ wanted.       >              It only must be a finite set because I intend for is       to be stored and computable.              --       Copyright 2025 Olcott |
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