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Subject: All of computation and human reasoning can be encoded as finite
 string transformations --- Quine
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On 4/20/2025 11:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
> On 4/20/25 tic 1:33 AM, olcott wrote:
>> No counter-example to the above statement exists for all
>> computation and all human reasoning that can be expressed
>> in language.
> 
> But can all Human reasoning be actually expressed in language?
> 
> For instance, how do you express the smell of a rose in a finite string 
> so you can do reasoning with it?
> 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analytic-synthetic/

all human reasoning that can be expressed in language
<is> the {analytic} side of the analytic/synthetic distinction
that humanity has totally screwed up since

Two Dogmas of Empiricism
Willard Van Orman Quine
https://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html

Couldn't even understand that the term Bachelor
as stipulated to have the semantic meaning of
Bachelor(x) ≡ ~Married(x) ∧ Male(x) ∧ Adult(x) ∧ Human(x)

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hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer