Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mikko Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: Two dozen people were simply wrong -- Only basis for rebuttal in the last 3 years Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 11:08:47 +0300 Organization: - Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <87y17smqnq.fsf@bsb.me.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2024 10:08:48 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="dde2a4eeb938d66ddf3373d973876dcf"; logging-data="3447954"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX193DH/zqgGlc/lpuj0xWmoC" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZaizE0nlzIeZqTioSbfB5xcOwhQ= Bytes: 2392 On 2024-06-01 15:09:02 +0000, olcott said: > On 6/1/2024 3:23 AM, Mikko wrote: >> On 2024-05-29 18:31:52 +0000, olcott said: >> >>> *two dozen people were simply wrong* >> >> Why are people who are wrong so important that they deserve >> a subject line? I would think that people who are right are >> more interesting. >> > > This is the key mistake of the definition of the halting problem itself. > Linz makes this same mistake. I already covered this extensively in > another reply. The word "this" above does not denote anything so the first sentence does not mean anything. The word "same" in the second sentence refers to "this" in the first sentnece and therefore does not denote, either, so the second sentence does not say anything either. So the third sentence says that you covevered nothing. > That these two dozen different people are wrong about this shows that > the only basis for any rebuttal of my proof for the last three years IS > WRONG. That you claim that these two dozen people are wrong does not show anything. It probably wouldn't even if you could show that they really were wrong. -- Mikko