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|    Tristan Wibberley to Richard Damon    |
|    Re: have we been misusing incompleteness    |
|    03 Jan 26 21:24:04    |
      XPost: comp.theory, sci.math       From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk              On 03/01/2026 18:51, Richard Damon wrote:       > On 1/3/26 12:35 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       >> On 02/01/2026 16:06, Richard Damon wrote:       >>>> You have to derive the statement from the axioms of the system using       >>>> the       >>>> deduction rules of the system. It's the actual definition of       >>>> "Theorem of       >>>> a Formal System".       >>>       >>> And the statement G was.       >>       >> Then a system can be complete.       >>       >>       >       > No, because the derivation isn't finite, so isn't a proof.       >       > It seems you are stuck in a finite world, in a logic that is infinite.              You mean its a fixed point that terminates at G but doesn't start?       Non-constructive? It's reverse derivation (computation of its valuation)       doesn't halt? (cue Olcott re. occurs check).              I'm certain Gödel thought he hadn't produced an inconsistent system. It       is supposed to be /consistent/ and in-completable, not /inconsistent/ so       who cares.                     --       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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