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|    Tristan Wibberley to Richard Damon    |
|    Re: have we been misusing incompleteness    |
|    02 Jan 26 00:10:53    |
      XPost: comp.theory, sci.math       From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk              On 01/01/2026 23:48, Richard Damon wrote:       > On 1/1/26 6:13 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       >> On 01/01/2026 22:40, Richard Damon wrote:       >>       >>> But it IS a theorem of the base system, as it uses ONLY the mathematical       >>> operations definable in the base system. What makes you think it isn't a       >>> Theorem in the base system.       >>       >> It has no derivation in the base system, if it had you wouldn't think       >> the base system were incomplete.       >>       >       > It has no PROOF in the base system.       >       > The statement is surely a statement in the base system.       >       > It is shown to be true there, by a proof in the meta-system.       >       > I think you are confused about what you talk about.              No you're confused. You think its a theorem when its merely a statement.                     --       Tristan Wibberley              The message body is Copyright (C) 2025 Tristan Wibberley except       citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,       of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it       verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to       promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation       of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general       superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train       any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that       will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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