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|    Mikko to Tristan Wibberley    |
|    Re: The Halting Problem asks for too muc    |
|    22 Jan 26 10:30:12    |
      From: mikko.levanto@iki.fi              On 21/01/2026 15:46, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       > On 20/01/2026 09:48, Mikko wrote:       >> On 19/01/2026 17:00, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       >>> On 19/01/2026 08:19, Mikko wrote:       >>>> But the syntactic incompleteness is still there. Both G and ¬G are       >>>> well-formed formulas of Peano arithmetic but neither is provable.       >>>> The well-formed formula G ∨ ¬G is provable, and so is G → G.       >>>       >>> whose "or" operator are you talking about?       >>       >> The symbol ∨ above is a connective of ordinary logic.       >       > I have the impression that we use a symbol that several authors have       > used for subtly different concepts. Can you name a defining author whose       > definition I should find freely on The Internet as the definition that       > you rely on?              I don't any web site that I could trust to meet your       requirement.However, as far as I know, all authors agree about its meaning       for ordinary logic. For other kinds of logic it is better to skip       every opus that does not define the exact meaning.              --       Mikko              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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