Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: olcott Newsgroups: sci.logic,comp.theory Subject: Re: Truthmaker Maximalism and undecidable decision problems Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:30:28 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:30:29 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7511da41317e1c66c22f772cd659795f"; logging-data="1227484"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19quu52Jk24Uqwo6ydaFyYJ" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:sjKK+2/tZdSF7Wn+cC/gX6LdYZQ= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2679 On 6/10/2024 10:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote: > On 6/10/24 12:09 PM, olcott wrote: >> >> When we ask the question: What is a truthmaker? The generic answer is >> whatever makes an expression of language true 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. >> >> Then it is self-evident that this the way that truth really works. >> > > So, how does that apply to something that isn't a part of "the > universe", as Formal Logic systems are not. > *STOPPING AT YOUR FIRST RIDICULOUSLY HUGE MISTAKE* In other words you are saying that formal system have never existing in any way what-so-ever? > Their concept of truth is NOT related to any of the facts about our > universe, but only their wholely self-contained system, built on the > agreed upon manner. > > I think your problem is you just can't handle that level of abstraction. > > Just like you can't understand a logic system allowing "inconsistant > behavior" as not being "wrong". -- Copyright 2024 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer