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|    olcott to Tristan Wibberley    |
|    Re: I am first to have fully refuted the    |
|    08 Dec 25 10:25:12    |
      XPost: comp.theory, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, sci.math       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 12/8/2025 12:36 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       > On 08/12/2025 03:17, olcott wrote:       >> On 12/7/2025 7:26 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       >>> On 06/12/2025 17:00, olcott wrote:       >>>> As my signature line now stipulates       >>>> My 28 year goal has been to make       >>>> "true on the basis of meaning" computable.       >>>       >>> Do you really mean "truthy" on the basis of meaning?       >>> I'd argue "true on the basis of meaning" can only every be truthy, but       >>> "truthy on the basis of meaning" could, perhaps, become true.       >>>       >>       >> In other words we cannot be certain       >> that the integer five is a number?       >       > that "the integer five" refers to a number. exactly       >              The body of general knowledge that can be expressed in       language includes all of the details of every published       definition in a knowledge ontology type hierarchy.       Each atomic fact of the actual world.              This is stored as formalized natural language such as       Rudolf Carnap Meaning Postulates, Montague Grammar of       natural language semantics, or the CycL language of the       Cyc project's knowledge ontology.              Some aspects of this knowledge might also be stored in       some other formal language that may be more compact       and succinct for mathematical notions.                     --       Copyright 2025 Olcott |
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