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|    olcott to Richard Damon    |
|    =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_readers_are_conned_into_    |
|    30 Dec 25 13:08:51    |
      XPost: comp.theory, sci.math, comp.ai.philosophy       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 12/30/2025 1:04 PM, Richard Damon wrote:       > On 12/30/25 10:10 AM, olcott wrote:       >> On 12/30/2025 8:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:       >>> On 12/30/25 9:32 AM, olcott wrote:       >>>> On 12/29/2025 11:49 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       >>>>> On 30/12/2025 04:35, olcott wrote:       >>>>>       >>>>>> ...We are therefore confronted with a proposition       >>>>>> which asserts its own unprovability. 15 … (Gödel 1931:40-41)       >>>>>>       >>>>>> Correctly paraphrased as:       >>>>>> a sequence of inference steps from axioms       >>>>>> that assert that they themselves do not exist.       >>>>>       >>>>> No they don't. That's an interpretation outside the system. The axioms       >>>>> merely force you to conclude that some symbol or other is not negation       >>>>> and/or another one is not a reference to the system itself when fools       >>>>> think they both /are/ those things.       >>>>>       >>>>>       >>>>       >>>> G := (F ⊬ G)       >>>       >>> That isn't the statement of G, so you start with a lie.       >>>       >>>       >>>> a sequence of inference steps in F from the axioms       >>>> of F that assert that they themselves do not exist in F.       >>>>       >>>       >>       >> (F ⊬ G)       >> "⊬" means that a sequence of inference steps from       >> F to G do not exist.       >       > Right, and there is, it is just an infinite sequence of steps.       >              You are stupidly saying that something that does not exist       at all infinitely exists.              --       Copyright 2025 Olcott |
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