Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: dbush Newsgroups: sci.logic Subject: Re: Mathematical incompleteness has always been a misconception --- Ultimate Foundation of Truth Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 14:13:16 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 96 Message-ID: References: <0e0c21ec5ccaeec8f341a86ed64c7447c34d162b@i2pn2.org> <8638c66ecc1669437be5a141cfa358c8c6168cde@i2pn2.org> <83cd07284fba793a0c2865dc5f6c21a9b9788a3e@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2025 20:13:15 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="532f9ff796323674ebd2d76d6a96062e"; logging-data="906311"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19KQh81hz5qkW7tp6PG8q/o" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:37IRP81WWynoKMfsNT0UtysTxJc= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 5576 On 3/2/2025 2:11 PM, olcott wrote: > On 3/2/2025 1:04 PM, dbush wrote: >> On 3/2/2025 1:57 PM, olcott wrote: >>> On 3/2/2025 12:22 PM, dbush wrote: >>>> On 3/2/2025 1:10 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>> On 3/2/2025 11:19 AM, dbush wrote: >>>>>> On 3/2/2025 12:14 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>> On 3/2/2025 11:11 AM, dbush wrote: >>>>>>>> On 3/2/2025 12:08 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 3/2/2025 11:00 AM, dbush wrote: >>>>>>>>>> On 3/2/2025 11:53 AM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> On 3/2/2025 10:28 AM, dbush wrote:>>> So how does changing >>>>>>>>>>> the definition of truth prevent systems from >>>>>>>>>>>> existing that contain true statements that have *only* an >>>>>>>>>>>> infinite connection to their truthmaker? >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> *This how actual truth has always worked* >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> If expression X has a connection to a truth-maker then >>>>>>>>>>> X is true otherwise X is untrue, yet possibly not false. >>>>>>>>>>> It does not matter what kind of connection this is. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> You didn't answer the question. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Sure I did >>>>>>>>>  >> It does not matter what kind of connection this is. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> It does not matter whether the connection is infinite >>>>>>>>> or not so STFU about it. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Dishonest dodge. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> You stated that your definition of truth prevents systems from >>>>>>>> existing that contain true statements that have *only* an >>>>>>>> infinite connection to their truthmaker. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So how does that happen? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I never said anything like that. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes you did: >>>>>> >>>>>> On 3/1/2025 11:46 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>  > Incompleteness cannot possibly exist when true means >>>>>>  > has a truth-maker and untrue means has no truth-maker >>>>>>  > and false mean ~X has a truth-maker. >>>>> >>>>> Your paraphrase of that was terribly incorrect. >>>>> Has a truth-maker has always been the only correct >>>>> way to determine True(x) superseding and replacing >>>>> the ill-formed notion of provability. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I merely substituted the term "incompleteness" with it's official >>>> definition.  That you don't understand that definition is not a >>>> rebuttal. >>>> >>>> That you attempted to change the idea of "provability" doesn't >>>> change the fact that "incompleteness" still refers to the original >>>> idea of "provability". >>>> >>>> A system is incomplete if it contains one or more true statements >>>> that contain *only* an infinite connection to their truthmakers. >>>> >>>> That doesn't change despite your idea of "truth", so incompleteness >>>> still exists. >>> >>> One can define a system of arithmetic that does not allow >>> summing the integers 5 and 3. Such a system would be >>> incomplete as an artificial contrivance. >>> >>> The notions of undecidability and incompleteness are this >>> same sort of artificial contrivance. >>> >> >> That's not what incompleteness means. >> >> For example, Robinson arithmetic is incomplete because the true >> statement "no number is equal to its successor" has *only* an infinite >> connection to its truthmaker. >> > > That is a ridiculously stupid thing to say and you know it. > I may not be alive in a month. Quit f-cking around with > my life's work. > That you don't know the definition of the terms you're using is not a rebuttal.