XPost: comp.theory, comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++   
   From: polcott333@gmail.com   
      
   All of the textbooks require halt deciders to   
   report on the behavior of machine M on input w.   
   This may be easy to understand yet not precisely   
   accurate.   
      
   Since no Turing machine ever takes any Machine   
   M as an input this  a category error even   
   when this makes no functional difference.   
      
   They simply glossed over this key detail because   
   they thought that it made no difference.   
      
   *Defining a halt decider with perfect accuracy*   
   Turing machine halt deciders compute the mapping   
   from input finite strings to an {accept, reject}   
   value on the basis of the behavior that this   
   input finite string specifies.   
      
      
      
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   "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
   
   reliably computable.

   
      
   This required establishing a new foundation
   
      
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