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PL Olcott

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Rudolf Carnap derived the basis for Richard Montague to mathematically formalize natural language. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montague-semanti...
December 31, 2023 at 15:55
All of the words have every slight nuance of their meaning assigned to them by Rudolf Carnap / Richard Montague Meaning Postulates.
December 31, 2023 at 14:49
The meaning of those terms is the sum total of every detail of all of the general knowledge that applies to those terms (that can be written down usin...
December 30, 2023 at 17:55
Analytic(Olcott) propositions can be verified as completely true entirely on the basis of their meaning. This includes many things that are typically ...
December 30, 2023 at 16:32
Analytic(Olcott) is a lot like the conventional meaning of {Analytic} in that every expression is verified as completely true entirely on the basis of...
December 30, 2023 at 16:26
No existing terms exactly match the ideas that I must communicate.
December 30, 2023 at 01:43
The only reason why there continues to be disagreement about whether or not the analytic/synthetic distinction exists is because it was not defined un...
December 29, 2023 at 22:34
That is not what Synthetic(Olcott) means. Actually seeing or smelling a {Rose} is the synthetic aspect of a {Rose}. Every detail about a {Rose} that c...
December 29, 2023 at 18:33
It is difficult to understand how words acquire meaning. That it is difficult to understand does not entail that my understanding is incorrect. The ar...
December 29, 2023 at 18:31
I am defining Analytic(Olcott) and Synthetic(Olcott) so that they can be unequivocally divided. Analytic(Olcott) is anything that can be explained usi...
December 29, 2023 at 18:05
Every element of the body of analytic knowledge can be verified as true in that it is either an axiom of {BOAK} or is deduced from the axioms of {BOAK...
December 29, 2023 at 18:04
Synthetic(Olcott) means photographs, videos, tape recordings, sense data from the sense organs. Analytic(Olcott) means anything and everything the can...
December 29, 2023 at 17:43
I already corrected the gettier problem cases of the error of "justified true belief". knowledge is a justified true belief such that the justificatio...
December 29, 2023 at 16:17
It is not at all that properties cannot be described using words. It is that some properties require first-hand direct experience of sense data from t...
December 29, 2023 at 16:13
No it is an axiom forming the foundation of the body of analytical knowledge. Unless and until finite strings are assigned meaning they remain meaning...
December 29, 2023 at 16:04
The actual set of actual human knowledge is encoded such that a computer can apply human reasoning within this body of knowledge that can be written d...
December 29, 2023 at 16:01
The meaning of the words of a specific human language simply assigns meanings to finite strings. When these meanings are analytic then it merely assig...
December 28, 2023 at 21:10
Yes that is my key point, hence I cannot begin to understand how anyone could possibly disbelieve in the analytic/synthetic distinction. Quine seemed ...
December 28, 2023 at 18:55
I have three different related posts. The purpose of this post is to unequivocally establish that the analytic / synthetic distinction definitely exis...
December 28, 2023 at 18:34
If its truth value cannot possibly be determined entirely on the basis of its meaning then it is not analytic.
December 28, 2023 at 18:26
We simply have the true definition of unicorn that already exists in the verbal model of the actual world. My purpose in this post is to unequivocally...
December 28, 2023 at 18:25
That is one reason why I am making sure to exclude them. The criterion measure for excluding them seems to have no boundary cases. The purpose of this...
December 28, 2023 at 18:21
Although the verbal model of the actual world already exists it may take millions of labor years to write this all down. This means that we simply und...
December 28, 2023 at 18:17
In other words it may be the case that the {living animal} {cat} really is a {plate of brownies crushed on the floor} and everyone thinking otherwise ...
December 28, 2023 at 17:47
We cannot have vagueness and ambiguity in the key terms that are being defined. We must stipulate their precise definitions.
December 28, 2023 at 17:27
The axioms of the verbal model of the actual world stipulates that unicorns are fictional.
December 28, 2023 at 17:26
We can call this the analytic(olcott) / empirical(olcott) distinction meaning that any expression of language that can be verified as true on the basi...
December 28, 2023 at 17:24
Unicorns are fictional animals that are {horses} with {horns}. The verbal model of the actual world is a set of mutually self-defining semantic tautol...
December 28, 2023 at 16:45
Blind people know that cats exist. That cats exist is an axiom in the verbal model of the actual world.
December 28, 2023 at 15:52
If we use Robert Heinlein's "fair witness" standard of truth you can not be sure that a cat is in the living room the moment after you have no sense d...
December 28, 2023 at 15:23
That seem to be like saying how do we know that "12" represents the integer twelve and not a plate of brownies crushed on the floor? The meaning of th...
December 28, 2023 at 15:18
The only way that you can verify that a specific event is occurring at a specific location right now generally requires that you are seeing this event...
December 28, 2023 at 14:57
It is simply the ordinary and common body of general knowledge known to mankind. It could be updated or static. Once the notions of {analytic truthmak...
December 28, 2023 at 06:23
He seems to be disagreeing with Tarski. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science) is how the knowledge is stored. It is easiest to ...
December 28, 2023 at 05:48
This is pages from his paper. I have taken them to be the actual proof of the undefinability theorem. https://liarparadox.org/Tarski_275_276.pdf What ...
December 28, 2023 at 04:52
The body of all analytical knowledge includes every recursively axiomatizable theory as a subset.
December 28, 2023 at 04:07
Here is Tarski saying exactly that: "(3) x ? Pr if and only if x ? Tr" The exact same thing is on the bottom of the first page of Tarski's actual text...
December 28, 2023 at 03:59
Since we can know that {Cats} <are> {Animals} on the basis of the meaning of these words then that makes is analytical according to the common and sim...
December 28, 2023 at 03:29
I am not talking about Montague grammar per say. I am talking about some system like Montague Grammar that can explain every detail about human genera...
December 28, 2023 at 03:11
I am merely trying to define the term {analytic truthmaker} on the basis of the conventional meaning of those two terms. I can perfectly specify exact...
December 28, 2023 at 03:01
BOAK is the model of the actual world along with every detail of human general knowledge. The BOAK also knows how to perform every aspect of human rea...
December 28, 2023 at 02:58
That is Tarski's line (3) that says that expression of language x is only true if x cannot be proven. It seems that Tarski is saying: If Y is true and...
December 28, 2023 at 02:52
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December 27, 2023 at 21:12
I don't really want to delve into the trillions of details until after the architecture is understood and accepted, otherwise I won't be able to make ...
December 27, 2023 at 15:19
The BOAK can perform every arithmetic and logical operations, thus qualifies for Gödel’s Incompleteness. Knowledge specified in natural language has b...
December 26, 2023 at 14:54
The key change is the unprovable in BOAK simply means untrue in the BOAK, thus cannot means that BOAK is incomplete. BOAK is merely the actual body of...
December 26, 2023 at 14:45
It is currently known that humans are the only life on the Earth that can understand analytic geometry. Listing all the axioms make fill a book light ...
December 26, 2023 at 05:49
It in not probable that sheep need air to breath therefore it is not inductive inference. Inductive inference only deals with probabilities it never d...
December 25, 2023 at 23:56
It is deduction from true premises. The formal system required must have a human level of comprehension directly hard-wired into it. It must know ever...
December 25, 2023 at 23:38
Every single detail of all of the general knowledge known to humans is in the BOAK. Can sheep live on Mars? is not general knowledge thus must be deri...
December 25, 2023 at 23:29