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From: Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi>
Newsgroups: sci.logic
Subject: Re: This makes all Analytic(Olcott) truth computable --- ZFC
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:10:48 +0300
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On 2024-08-21 12:37:50 +0000, olcott said:

> On 8/21/2024 3:54 AM, Mikko wrote:
>> On 2024-08-20 13:59:42 +0000, olcott said:
>> 
>>> On 8/20/2024 5:21 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>> On 2024-08-19 13:12:30 +0000, olcott said:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 8/19/2024 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>> On 2024-08-18 11:51:33 +0000, olcott said:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 8/18/2024 5:28 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2024-08-16 22:16:59 +0000, olcott said:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 8/16/2024 5:03 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 8/16/24 5:35 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/16/2024 4:05 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/16/24 4:39 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ZFC didn't need to do that. All they had to do is
>>>>>>>>>>>>> redefine the notion of a set so that it was no longer
>>>>>>>>>>>>> incoherent.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> I guess you haven't read the papers of Zermelo and Fraenkel. They 
>>>>>>>>>>>> created a new definition of what a set was, and then showed what that 
>>>>>>>>>>>> implies, since by changing the definitions, all the old work of set 
>>>>>>>>>>>> theory has to be thrown out, and then we see what can be established.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> None of this is changing any more rules. All
>>>>>>>>>>> of these are the effects of the change of the
>>>>>>>>>>> definition of a set.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> No, they defined not only what WAS a set, but what you could do as 
>>>>>>>>>> basic operations ON a set.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Axiom of extensibility: the definition of sets being equal, that ZFC is 
>>>>>>>>>> built on first-order logic.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Axion of regularity/Foundation: This is the rule that a set can not be 
>>>>>>>>>> a member of itself, and that we can count the members of a set.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> This one is the key that conquered Russell's Paradox.
>>>>>>>>> If anything else changed it changed on the basis of this change
>>>>>>>>> or was not required to defeat RP.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> That is not sufficient. They also had to Comprehension.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Axiom Schema of Specification: We can build a sub-set from another set 
>>>>>>>>>> and a set of conditions. (Which implies the existance of the empty set)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> This is added to keep most of Comprenesion but not Russell's set.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> All they did was (as I already said) was redefine the notion of a set.
>>>>>>> That this can still be called set theory seems redundant.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> They did, as both Richard Damon and I already said, much more. They
>>>>>> also explained their rationale, worked out various consequnces of
>>>>>> their axioms and compared them to expectations, and developed better
>>>>>> sets of axioms.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> They made no other changes to the notion of set theory
>>>>> than redefining what a set is. Even then it seems they
>>>>> did less than this.
>>>> 
>>>> That is so obvious that needs not be mentined. There is nothing
>>>> in the set theory expept what a set is so obviously nothing else
>>>> can be changed.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> There are at least two tings in set theory:
>>> (a) What a set is
>>> (b) How a set works
>> 
>> They are the same thing. There is nothing in a set other than how
>> a set works. And it does not work in any way other than having
>> certain relations to other sets.
>> 
>>> When how a set is constructed is changed this single
>>> change has great impact yet is still only one change.
>> 
>> That is true. Therefore one must be careful with the construction
>> rules and ensure that non-existent or undesiderable sets cannot
>> be constructed but all sets that are regarded necessary can be
>> constructed.
>> 
>>>>> From what I recall it seems that they only changed how
>>>>> sets can be constructed. The operations that can be
>>>>> performed on sets remained the same.
>>>> 
>>>> There are axioms about exstence and non-existence of certain kind of
>>>> sets. For example, the axiom of regularity (aka foudation) specifies
>>>> that ill-founded sets (e.g., Quine's atom) do not exist.
>>>> 
>>>>>> One consequence of ZF axioms is that there is no set that contains all
>>>>>> other sets as members. Some regard this as a defect and have developed
>>>>>> set thories that have a universal set that contains all other sets as
>>>>>> members (and usually itself, too).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Then maybe they did this incorrectly. They only needed to
>>>>> specify that a set cannot be a member of itself when a
>>>>> set is constructed. This would not preclude a universal
>>>>> set of all other sets.
>>>> 
>>>> The power set axiom prevents the existence of a set that contains
>>>> all other sets.
>>> 
>>> In mathematics, the axiom of power set[1] is one of the
>>> Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms of axiomatic set theory. It
>>> guarantees for every set x the existence of a set P(x)
>>> the power set of x consisting precisely of the subsets of x.
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_power_set
>>> 
>>> *It simply corrected the error of this*
>>> In mathematics, the power set (or powerset) of a set S
>>> is the set of all subsets of S, including the empty set
>>> and S itself.
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_set
>> 
>> What was the error and what was the correction?
>> Anyway, the pawer set axiom of ZF ensures that for every set S
>> that is neither its own member nor a member of its member there
>> is another set cointaing a member that is not S and not a member of S.
>> 
>>>> Set theories with an unversal set need to restrict
>>>> the construction operations more than what is usually considered
>>>> reasonable.
>>> 
>>> I don't see how. The set of all sets that do not contain
>>> themselves simply becomes the set of all sets.
>> 
>> The set of all sets that do not contain themselves is the Russell set
>> that revealied the inconsistency of the naive set theory. The main
>> improvment in ZF was the non-existence of this set.
>> 
> 
> So basically you agreed with me on everything.

No, in particular not with message that says that one thing is two.

-- 
Mikko