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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Truthmaker Maximalism and undecidable decision problems
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 13:10:20 -0500
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On 6/9/2024 1:08 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
> On 6/9/24 11:36 AM, olcott wrote:
>> *This has direct application to undecidable decision problems*
>>
>> When we ask the question: What is a truthmaker? The generic answer is
>> whatever makes an expression of language true <is> its truthmaker. This
>> entails that if there is nothing in the universe that makes expression X
>> true then X lacks a truthmaker and is untrue.
> 
> I guess you don't understand Formal Logic then.
> 
> If Formal logic, the logic system starts with an explicit listing of 
> statements and definitions that are considered "True" and logical 
> operations that are considered VALID.
> 
>>
>> X may be untrue because X is false. In that case ~X has a truthmaker.
>> Now we have the means to unequivocally define truth-bearer. X is a
>> truth-bearer iff (if and only if) X or ~X has a truthmaker.
>>
>> I have been working in this same area as a non-academician for a few
>> years. I have only focused on expressions of language that are {true on
>> the basis of their meaning}.
>>
> 
> Which seems to mean you have focused on general Philosophy, and NOT 
> formal logic, which has a much broader definition of "truth", and thus 
> room to argue it.

When I specify the ultimate foundation of all truth then this
does apply to truth in logic, truth in math and truth in science.

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