Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: olcott Newsgroups: sci.logic,comp.theory Subject: Re: Undecidability based on epistemological antinomies V2 --Mendelson-- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 09:54:09 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 71 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:54:10 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a7006f3e3637d5c785f9944f8af11529"; logging-data="1775161"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18OEj0l1dCExeh71wK9gVo4" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:M9STHniY1nCxzrUCPxZztE4OCJo= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3992 On 4/22/2024 3:26 AM, Mikko wrote: > On 2024-04-21 14:34:44 +0000, olcott said: > >> On 4/21/2024 2:50 AM, Mikko wrote: >>> On 2024-04-20 16:37:27 +0000, olcott said: >>> >>>> On 4/20/2024 2:41 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>> On 2024-04-19 02:25:48 +0000, olcott said: >>>>> >>>>>> On 4/18/2024 8:58 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>> Godel's proof you are quoting from had NOTHING to do with >>>>>>> undecidability, >>>>>> >>>>>> *Mendelson (and everyone that knows these things) disagrees* >>>>>> >>>>>> https://sistemas.fciencias.unam.mx/~lokylog/images/Notas/la_aldea_de_la_logica/Libros_notas_varios/L_02_MENDELSON,%20E%20-%20Introduction%20to%20Mathematical%20Logic,%206th%20Ed%20-%20CRC%20Press%20(2015).pdf >>>>> >>>>> On questions whether Gödel said something or not the sumpreme >>>>> authority >>>>> is not Mendelson but Gödel. >>>>> >>>> >>>> When some authors affirm that undecidability and incompleteness >>>> are the exact same thing then whenever Gödel uses the term >>>> incompleteness then he is also referring to the term undecidability. >>> >>> That does not follow. Besides, a reference to the term "undecidability" >>> is not a reference to the concept 'undecidability'. >>> >> >> In other words you deny the identity principle thus X=X is false. > > It is not a good idea to lie where the truth can be seen. > It is not a good idea to say gibberish nonsense and expect it to be understood. >>> a reference to the term "undecidability" >>> is not a reference to the concept 'undecidability'. >> An undecidable sentence of a theory K is a closed wf ℬ of K such that >> neither ℬ nor ¬ℬ is a theorem of K, that is, such that not-⊢K ℬ and >> not-⊢K ¬ℬ. (Mendelson: 2015:208) > > So that is what "undecideble" means in Mendelson: 2015. Elsewhere it may > mean something else. > It usually means one cannot make up one's mind. In math it means an epistemological antinomy expression is not a proposition thus a type mismatch error for every bivalent system of logic. not-⊢K ℬ and not-⊢K ¬ℬ. (Mendelson: 2015:208) K ⊬ ℬ and K ⊬ ¬ℬ. // switching notational conventions >> Incomplete(F) ≡ ∃x ∈ L ((L ⊬  x) ∧ (L ⊬ ¬x)) > > So not the same. > When an expression cannot be proved or refuted is a formal system this is exactly the same as an expression cannot be proved or refuted in a formal system. -- Copyright 2024 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer