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|    olcott to Python    |
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|    21 Jan 26 23:18:20    |
      XPost: sci.math, comp.theory, "]"       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 1/21/2026 10:59 PM, Python wrote:       > Le 22/01/2026 à 04:54, olcott a écrit :       >> On 1/21/2026 9:37 PM, Richard Damon wrote:       >>> On 1/21/26 10:45 AM, olcott wrote:       >>>> On 1/21/2026 6:35 AM, Richard Damon wrote:       >>>>> On 1/20/26 11:54 PM, olcott wrote:       >>>>>> On 1/20/2026 10:04 PM, Richard Damon wrote:       >>>>>>> On 1/20/26 4:23 PM, olcott wrote:       >>>>>>>> On 1/19/2026 11:29 PM, Richard Damon wrote:       >>>>>>>>>> My system is not supposed to decide in advance whether       >>>>>>>>>> Goldbach is well‑founded. A formula becomes a truth‑bearer       >>>>>>>>>> only when PA can classify it in finitely many steps.       >>>>>>>>>> Goldbach may or may not be classifiable; that’s an open       >>>>>>>>>> computational fact, not a semantic requirement. This has       >>>>>>>>>> no effect on Gödel, because Gödel’s sentence is structurally       >>>>>>>>>> non‑truth‑bearing, not merely unclassified.       >>>>>>>>>       >>>>>>>>> Which shows that you don't understand what logic systems are.       >>>>>>>>>       >>>>>>>>> The don't "Decide" on truths, they DETERMINE what is true.       >>>>>>>>>       >>>>>>>>> Your problem is that either there is, or there isn't a finite       >>>>>>>>> length proof of the statement.       >>>>>>>>>       >>>>>>>>> Semantics can't change in a formal system, or they aren't       >>>>>>>>> really semantics.       >>>>>>>>>       >>>>>>>>> Your problem is you don't understand Godel statement, as it       >>>>>>>>> *IS* truth bearing as it is a simple statement with no middle       >>>>>>>>> ground, does a number exist that satisfies a given       >>>>>>>>> relationship. Either there is, or there isn't. No other       >>>>>>>>> possiblity.       >>>>>>>>>       >>>>>>>>> You confuse yourself by forgetting that words have actual       >>>>>>>>> meaning, and that meaning can depend on using the right context.       >>>>>>>>>       >>>>>>>>> Godel's G is a statement in the system PA.       >>>>>>>>>       >>>>>>>>> It is a statement about the non-existance of a natural number       >>>>>>>>> that satisfies a particular computable realtionship.       >>>>>>>>>       >>>>>>>>> It is a statement defined purely by mathematics and thus       >>>>>>>>> doesn't "depend" on other meaning.       >>>>>>>>>       >>>>>>>>> It is a mathematical FACT, that for this relationship, no       >>>>>>>>> matter what natural number we test, none will satisfy it, so       >>>>>>>>> its assertation that no number satisfies it makes it true.       >>>>>>>>       >>>>>>>> PA augmented with its own True(PA,x) and False(PA,x)       >>>>>>>> is a decider for Domain of every expression grounded       >>>>>>>> in the axioms of PA.       >>>>>>>       >>>>>>> No, it becomes inconsistant.       >>>>>>>       >>>>>>>>       >>>>>>>> A system at a higher level of inference than PA can       >>>>>>>> reject any expressions that define a cycle in the       >>>>>>>> directed graph of the evaluation sequence of PA       >>>>>>>> expressions. Then PA could test back chained inference       >>>>>>>> from expression x and ~x to the axioms of PA.       >>>>>>>>       >>>>>>>       >>>>>>> But there is no "cycle" in the statement of G. It is PURELY a       >>>>>>> statement of the non-existance of a number that satisfies a       >>>>>>> purely mathematic relationship (which has no meaning by itself in       >>>>>>> PA).       >>>>>>>       >>>>>>       >>>>>> Even the relationship cannot exist |
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