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|    olcott to Tristan Wibberley    |
|    Re: Computation and Undecidability    |
|    11 Jan 26 15:50:30    |
      XPost: sci.math, comp.theory, comp.ai.philosophy       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 1/11/2026 3:28 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       > On 11/01/2026 18:12, olcott wrote:       >> On 1/11/2026 8:39 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       >       >>> What does "officially accepted" mean?       >>       >> Basically a broad consensus of conventional wisdom       >> agrees that the Liar Paradox is an open question       >> that has never been resolved.       >       > "Officially" doesn't refer to any consensus nor to any convention. It's       > basically the opposite of consensus and convention; that's the purpose       > of the word.       >       > If Princeton has a position statement on it, maybe that would do.       >              There is a broad consensus that Gödel's 1931 Incompleteness       theorem is correct and that the Liar Paradox is unresolved.              It easy to see that both are incorrect when using Proof       Theoretic Semantics. Most experts in math and logic seem       to simply not "believe in" Proof Theoretic Semantics because       they are sheep and only follow the herd.              --       Copyright 2026 Olcott |
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