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From: Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: How a True(X) predicate can be defined for the set of analytic knowledge ---ZFC
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On 2025-03-23 04:24:51 +0000, olcott said:

> On 3/22/2025 9:53 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>> On 3/22/25 2:33 PM, olcott wrote:
>>> On 3/22/2025 12:34 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>> On 3/22/25 11:13 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>> On 3/22/2025 5:11 AM, joes wrote:
>>>>>> Am Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:03:39 -0500 schrieb olcott:
>>>>>>> On 3/21/2025 9:31 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 3/21/25 9:24 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 3/21/2025 7:50 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 3/21/25 8:40 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 3/21/2025 6:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 3/21/25 8:43 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 3/21/2025 3:41 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2025-03-20 14:57:16 +0000, olcott said:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 3/20/2025 6:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 3/19/25 10:42 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It is stipulated that analytic knowledge is limited to the set
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of knowledge that can be expressed using language or derived
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> by applying truth preserving operations to elements of this
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> set.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Which just means that you have stipulated yourself out of all
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> classical logic, since Truth is different than Knowledge. In a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> good logic system, Knowledge will be a subset of Truth, but you
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have defined that in your system, Truth is a subset of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Knowledge, so you have it backwards.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True(X) always returns TRUE for every element in the set of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> general knowledge that can be expressed using language.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It never gets confused by paradoxes.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Not useful unless it returns TRUE for no X that contradicts
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything that can be inferred from the set of general knowledge.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I can't parse that.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>   > (a) Not useful unless (b) it returns TRUE for (c) no X that
>>>>>>>>>>>>>   > contradicts anything (d) that can be inferred from the set of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>   > general knowledge.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>   >
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Because my system begins with basic facts and actual facts can't
>>>>>>>>>>>>> contradict each other and no contradiction can be formed by
>>>>>>>>>>>>> applying only truth preserving operations to these basic facts
>>>>>>>>>>>>> there are no contradictions in the system.
>>>>>> The liar sentence is contradictory.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> No, you system doesn't because you don't actually understand what
>>>>>>>>>>>> you are trying to define.
>>>>>>>>>>>> "Human Knowledge" is full of contradictions and incorrect
>>>>>>>>>>>> statements.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Adittedly, most of them can be resolved by properly putting the
>>>>>>>>>>>> statements into context, but the problem is that for some
>>>>>>>>>>>> statement, the context isn't precisely known or the statement is
>>>>>>>>>>>> known to be an approximation of unknown accuracy, so doesn't
>>>>>>>>>>>> actually specify a "fact".
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> It is self evidence that for every element of the set of human
>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge that can be expressed using language that undecidability
>>>>>>>>>>> cannot possibly exist.
>>>>>> Not self-evident was Gödel's disproof of that.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> SO, you admit you don't know what it means to prove something.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> When the proof is only syntactic then it isn't directly connected to
>>>>>>>>> any meaning.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> But Formal Logic proofs ARE just "syntactic"
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> When the body of human general knowledge has all of its semantics
>>>>>>>>> encoded syntactically AKA Montague Grammar of Semantics then a proof
>>>>>>>>> means validation of truth.
>>>>>>>> Yes, proof is a validatation of truth, but truth does not need to be
>>>>>>>> able to be validated.
>>>>>>> True(X) ONLY validates that X is true and does nothing else.
>>>>>> Not if X is unknown (but still true).
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> You must pay complete attention to ALL of my words
>>>>> or you get the meaning that I specify incorrectly.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The problem is that statement, you don't get to change the meaning of 
>>>> the core terms and stay in the system, so you are just admitting that 
>>>> all your work is based on strawmen, and thus frauds.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> <sarcasm>
>>>    In the exact same way that ZFC totally screwed up
>>>    and never resolved Russell's Paradox because they
>>>    were forbidden to limit how sets are defined.
>>> 
>>>    When the definition of a set allowed pathological
>>>    self-reference they should have construed this
>>>    as infallible and immutable.
>>> </sarcasm>
>>> 
>> 
>> IN other words, you admit that you can't refute what I said, so you 
>> just go off beat.
>> 
> 
> By the freaking concrete example that I provided
> YES YOU DO GET TO CHANGE THE MEANING OF THE TERMS.

No, you can't. The nearest you can is to create a new term that
is homonymous to an old one. But you can't use two homonymous
terms in the same opus.

-- 
Mikko