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   olcott to Richard Damon   
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   14 Jan 26 23:30:31   
   
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   From: polcott333@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/14/2026 9:44 PM, Richard Damon wrote:   
   > On 1/14/26 4:36 PM, olcott wrote:   
   >> Interpreting incompleteness as a gap between mathematical truth and   
   >> proof depends on truth-conditional semantics; once this is replaced by   
   >> proof-theoretic semantics a framework not yet sufficiently developed   
   >> at the time of Gödel’s proof the notion of such a gap becomes unfounded.   
   >>   
   >   
   > But that isn't what Incompleteness is about, so you are just showing   
   > your ignorance of the meaning of words.   
   >   
   > You can't just "change" the meaning of truth in a system.   
   >   
      
   Yet that is what happens when you replace the foundational basis   
   from truth-conditional semantics to proof-theoretic semantics.   
      
   > I guess your problme is you don't understand what Truth actually is.   
   >   
   > YOUR "gap" in understand is enormous.   
      
      
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