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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.   
      
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