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Formalized as: x ? True if and only if p where the symbol 'p' represents the whole sentence x https://liarparadox.org/Tarski_275_276.pdf adapted to be...
May 28, 2024 at 17:29
You seem to be consistently denying easily verified facts. One thing that we do definitely do know about Tarski's use of the "antinomy of the liar" in...
May 28, 2024 at 15:56
In any case we can simply cut-to-the-chase and carefully examine every single subtle detail of Tarski's use of the "antinomy of the liar" in his Undef...
May 28, 2024 at 15:52
That is not the part I am not conceding. I am saying no matter what anything says anywhere else THAT WAS A BIG MISTAKE
May 28, 2024 at 05:42
He did start with this Liar paradox. He said so. Also this is how he encoded his Liar Paradox x ? True if and only if p where the symbol 'p' represent...
May 28, 2024 at 05:40
So lets get back to Tarski. He did anchor his proof in the Liar Paradox and he says so. Try and show all of the details of otherwise. I do not concede...
May 28, 2024 at 05:27
I have never seen any use of the term {epistemological antinomy} that did not mean self-contradictory.
May 28, 2024 at 05:23
It seems that you are trying to take the words figuratively. That does not work. Try and see how the literal meaning can be dismissed.
May 28, 2024 at 05:14
There is no context in which those words of Gödel are not a terrible mistake.
May 28, 2024 at 05:05
antinomy seems to mean that by itself.
May 28, 2024 at 04:59
My only source for the meaning was the compositional meaning of the two separate terms.
May 28, 2024 at 04:51
Gödel is terribly wrong about this, these words are dead false: His proof is an "undecidability proof" and he just proved that made a big mistake with...
May 28, 2024 at 04:42
Look is up in the proof yourself. Its one page 40 One cannot correctly use epistemological antinomies in undecidability proofs, they are not truth bea...
May 28, 2024 at 04:11
I have not said anything like that. Here is what I said:
May 28, 2024 at 03:52
ON A FAMILY OF PARADOXES https://pages.nyu.edu/dorr/hempel/PriorTranslation.pdf I just read the overview that was posted here. Pretty succinct.
May 28, 2024 at 02:51
That does not matter. That quote proved that he did not have the very basic understanding that epistemological antinomies (AKA self-contradictory expr...
May 28, 2024 at 01:36
...14 Every epistemological antinomy can likewise be used for a similar undecidability proof... (Gödel 1931:43-44) My whole point in the post is that ...
May 27, 2024 at 23:56
OK then try to explain how this sentence is a truth bearer: "This sentence is not true."
May 27, 2024 at 23:43
I either have to explain it in technical terms that you don't understand or explain it in plain English where too much important meanings slip through...
May 26, 2024 at 18:47
Any cycle in the directed graph of the evaluation sequence of any expression conclusively proves that this expression is not a truth-bearer thus must ...
May 26, 2024 at 15:39
A truth-bearer is an expression of language X that can be possibly evaluated to a Boolean value. What the logicians call an undecidable expression X t...
May 26, 2024 at 14:19
Hence conclusively proving that ? cannot bear the truth value of true or the truth value of false. That does not make True(L, ?) inconsistent. When Tr...
May 25, 2024 at 20:47
In plain English: "? is not true." What is ? not true about? ? is not true about being not true. What is ? not true about being not true about? ? is n...
May 25, 2024 at 18:59
Not every truth has a truthmaker II PETER MILNE https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=e5f9578348844874f5d2542dcaff8d481e01648...
May 25, 2024 at 15:26
I want to mostly Gödel and focus on how a True(L,x) predicate would actually apply to the properly formalize Liar Paradox. LP := ~True(L, LP) <Tarski ...
May 25, 2024 at 15:03
He doesn't actually show that and if he didn't hide his work we could see that he doesn't really show that. He doesn't even claim that, yet what he do...
May 24, 2024 at 20:35
We can see that when we formalize the Liar Paradox correctly LP := ~True(L, LP) and not the clumsy way that Tarski formalized it : x ? True if and onl...
May 24, 2024 at 03:37
Did you notice that I changed the subject to Tarski? Tarski does the same thing as Gödel yet shows his work.
May 24, 2024 at 03:30
There has never actually been any need for this enrichment, it has always been expressible in a single formal system with a single formal language as ...
May 23, 2024 at 21:42
It is much simpler to see what Tarski did, Gödel hid the missing inference steps behind Gödel numbers and diagonalization. This is Tarski's formalized...
May 23, 2024 at 19:44
When we have all of the truth facts of the world or even all the true facts about logic, math and computation then it is easy to see that epistemologi...
May 23, 2024 at 19:20
If there are no sequence of truth preserving operations from the verbal semantic meaning of expression x {true on the basis of its meaning} to x or ~x...
May 23, 2024 at 15:48
Yes and non truth-bearers are screened out. Truthbearer(L,x) ? (True(L,x) ? True(L,~x)) False ? True(L,~x)) Yes. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ent...
May 23, 2024 at 14:12
I am referring to the finite set of finite strings that encode the actual general knowledge true facts of the world. I refer to general knowledge beca...
May 21, 2024 at 19:49
We simply correctly encode all of the true facts of the world. When the discussion devolves into "facts according to who" I lose interest because the ...
May 21, 2024 at 18:57
In other words you seem to believe that "a cat is probably an animal" and "a cat is probably not a fifteen story office building". I disagree.
May 21, 2024 at 18:38
Yes it is the case that only humans have a complex language, however, apes have learned a symbolic language known as Yerkish. https://en.wikipedia.org...
May 21, 2024 at 16:53
Facts are sentences that are defined as true. Cats <are> Animals is defined as true. The otherwise totally meaningless sequence of letters of "cats" a...
May 21, 2024 at 16:23
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science) of Rudolf Carnap / Richard Montague {meaning postulates} that stipulate relations between...
May 21, 2024 at 15:26
Expressions that are {true on the basis of meaning} are ONLY (a) A set of finite string semantic meanings that form an accurate model of the general k...
May 21, 2024 at 05:55
{All cats are animals} {All animals are living things} therefore {All cats are living things} The principle of explosion is not truth preserving. {All...
May 20, 2024 at 21:00
If we merely encoded all of the rules of algorithms, logic, and programming in a single formal system then when when no sequence of truth preserving o...
May 20, 2024 at 17:28
That is not the point. The set of verified facts of the world is defined to exist, it is merely not written down all in one place yet. LLM AI models m...
May 20, 2024 at 15:40
It is simply all of the details of every fact of the world. General knowledge is a finite set of axioms.
May 20, 2024 at 03:55
Expressions that are {true on the basis of meaning} are ONLY (a) A set of finite string semantic meanings that form an accurate model of the general k...
May 20, 2024 at 02:32
General knowledge can be expressed in a finite set of finite strings. Specific knowledge of everything is unmanageably large and infinite.
May 19, 2024 at 05:29
I have spent two decades on this. It <is> a truth predicate that would work because Truthbearer(L,x) ? (True(L,x) ? True(L,~x)) screens out epistemolo...
May 19, 2024 at 04:41
It is far too much to unpack all oat once. I don't say: "This sentence is a lie", I refer to the strengthened Liar Paradox: "This sentence is not true...
May 19, 2024 at 04:22
Not at all every declarative sentence is {True, False} or incorrect. Prolog does not simply assume that every statement is True or False, thus can scr...
April 29, 2024 at 17:37
All bivalent systems of predicate logic only have (by definition of bivalent) two Boolean values of True or False with nothing in between. What you ha...
April 29, 2024 at 14:59