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From: Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: Halting Problem: How my refutation differs to Peter Olcott's
Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 12:12:25 +0300
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On 2025-05-12 07:37:38 +0000, Richard Heathfield said:

> On 12/05/2025 08:19, Mikko wrote:
> 
> <flibblequarrel snipped>
> 
>> That is contradicto in adiecto: a refertial dependncy between
>> two entities of different categories cannot be
>> self-referential. An entity can have a self-referential
>> dependncy only to itself and it is always of the same category
>> as it is itself.
> 
> I won't contradict you, but descent parsing comes to mind, where expr() 
> calls term(), term() calls fact(), and fact() calls expr(). It 
> certainly smells self-referential, albeit at arm's length. Do you see 
> my point?

I think I do.

-- 
Mikko