Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: olcott Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: The philosophy of logic reformulates existing ideas on a new basis --- infallibly correct Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:40:19 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <4b24331953934da921cb7547b6ee2058ac9e7254@i2pn2.org> <2a5107f331836f388ad259bf310311a393c00602@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:40:20 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1eac21b2b931973af1a7b8c06e3541b3"; logging-data="3217447"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18w6lc2DxUBuC8hMdnLcsyB" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:DzlUIOvvGwDOH5/PnYKg4gM16w0= X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 241114-6, 11/14/2024), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 4106 On 11/14/2024 2:39 AM, Mikko wrote: > On 2024-11-13 23:01:50 +0000, olcott said: > >> On 11/13/2024 4:45 AM, Mikko wrote: >>> On 2024-11-12 23:17:20 +0000, olcott said: >>> >>>> On 11/10/2024 2:36 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>>>> olcott wrote: >>>>>> On 11/10/2024 1:04 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>>>> >>>>> [ .... ] >>>>> >>>>>>> I have addressed your point perfectly well.  Gödel's theorem is >>>>>>> correct, >>>>>>> therefore you are wrong.  What part of that don't you understand? >>>>> >>>>>> YOU FAIL TO SHOW THE DETAILS OF HOW THIS DOES >>>>>> NOT GET RID OF INCOMPLETENESS. >>>>> >>>>> The details are unimportant.  Gödel's theorem is correct.  Your ideas >>>>> contradict that theorem.  Therefore your ideas are incorrect. >>>>> Again, the >>>>> precise details are unimportant, and you wouldn't understand them >>>>> anyway.  Your ideas are as coherent as 2 + 2 = 5. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Incomplete(L) ≡  ∃x ∈ Language(L) ((L ⊬ x) ∧ (L ⊬ ¬x)) >>> >>> That's correct (although T is usually used instead of L). >>> Per this definition the first order group theory and the first order >>> Peano arithmetic are incomplete. >> >> Every language that can by any means express self-contradiction >> incorrectly shows that its formal system is incomplete. > > That "incorrectly shows" is non-sense. A language does not show, > incorrectly or otherwise. A proof shows but not incorrectly. But > for a proof you need a theory, i.e. more than just a language. > > That a theory can't prove something is usually not provable in the > theory itself but usually needs be proven in another theory, one > that can be interpreted as a metatheory. > *So in other words you just don't get it* When you start with truth and only apply truth preserving operations then you necessarily end up with truth. -- Copyright 2024 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer