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Arisktotle

['Member']Joined: August 25, 2018 at 21:06Last active: August 31, 2018 at 07:59None discussions10 comments

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Great sentences! No discussion can flourish without good examples and metaphores though they make easier targets for criticism than dull theory. Or ma...
August 30, 2018 at 21:05
Nothingness is the dual concept of everything (or would it be "everythingness"?) "Everything" would be the mereological sum of all objects. So nothing...
August 29, 2018 at 23:51
You may very well be right here as my knowledge of mereology is minimal. From the title of the thread and its opening post I had not deduced we were d...
August 29, 2018 at 20:06
"Universal nothingness" is pretty uninteresting as it is a pertinent lie. And consequently, its complement of "incidental somethingness" (there is som...
August 29, 2018 at 16:16
Thanks for the exchange of views. Discussions on Gödel tend to be as incomplete as his theorem domains and are guaranteed to haunt us another day. I r...
August 26, 2018 at 21:58
Modern mathematics holds the view that the G-sentence is true in some models (notably the standard model) and false in others. — Arisktotle Who? Which...
August 26, 2018 at 10:20
It (the G-sentence) is not true in the formal system as it cannot be deduced. If it was true in the system then the system would be self-contradictory...
August 26, 2018 at 08:18
The (G-)sentence cannot be deduced and hence does not exist in the system. This is incorrect since the sentence exists in the syntax of the system. It...
August 26, 2018 at 07:09
The (G-)sentence cannot be deduced and hence does not exist in the system. That is incorrect since it is covered by the syntax of the system. It is tr...
August 26, 2018 at 06:27
I pondered on the relationship between QM and Gödelian incompleteness a while ago and found some interesting parallels especially to the G-sentence. W...
August 25, 2018 at 22:14