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PL Olcott

['Member']Joined: March 23, 2019 at 04:47Last active: June 21, 2025 at 04:1813 discussions613 comments

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If there is no possible way to know that expression X is true then we can't possibly know that expression X is true. AKA when X lacks a truth-maker th...
June 07, 2024 at 01:11
We must start with the common lack of sufficient precision of your first statement. Most everyone makes tis same mistake. There cannot possibly be any...
June 06, 2024 at 22:25
Then is never really was literally unprovable. True yet cannot possibly be proved in any way what-so-ever does not allow indirect proof. A sequence of...
June 06, 2024 at 21:06
When I provide a simple yes/no answer all that I get is ad hominem attacks without anyone even looking at what I said. So I encode my yes/no answer in...
June 06, 2024 at 20:17
I just told you what I want to talk about so we can skip all of the other posts I simplified what I want to talk about so that it will be easier for y...
June 05, 2024 at 20:44
It is not my fault that people want to change the subject away from the original post. I have found that allowing people to do this to play Trollish h...
June 05, 2024 at 12:33
Can you manage to stay focused on the point at hand? Every expression of language x that is {true on the basis of its meaning} can only be verified as...
June 05, 2024 at 03:53
Can you manage to stay focused on the point at hand? Every expression of language x that is {true on the basis of its meaning} can only be verified as...
June 05, 2024 at 03:09
I am establishing a brand new foundation for analytical truth and simply ignoring that I am doing this is no actual rebuttal at all.
June 05, 2024 at 03:00
In other words you believe that there are are sequence of truth preserving operations from the axioms of PA to G or to ~G. When I prove my point ALL Y...
June 05, 2024 at 02:37
That part is correct yet simply ignores the actual point Therefore: True(PA, G) == false True(PA, ~G) == false.
June 05, 2024 at 02:33
All you have is ad hominem and cannot point out any actual errors in the essence of my reasoning. Here is the essence of my reasoning: Every expressio...
June 05, 2024 at 01:50
To understand what I am saying requires knowledge of truth-maker maximalism that you seem to lack.
June 05, 2024 at 00:25
I didn't even say that G was false. According to the new foundation of True(L, x) that I provided in my original post when neither G nor ~G can be pro...
June 05, 2024 at 00:20
I went back to my original post and still stand firmly behind it. The terms that I use are relevent to truth-maker maximalism yet probably establish b...
June 04, 2024 at 23:10
You have proven to be overwhelmed by the detail of the original thread so I simplified it. I didn't dumb it down you are very smart. I simplified it s...
June 04, 2024 at 22:28
What is there about the semantic meaning of {cats are not cats} that shows that {the Moon is made of green cheese} ???
June 04, 2024 at 21:28
Yet when we make sure to NOT IGNORE the semantics underlying the sentential logic that said is correct then we understand that there is no semantic co...
June 04, 2024 at 19:57
OK we finally have agreement on one point and I am exhausted that it took this long. I am not going to bother to extend beyond this point with you bec...
June 04, 2024 at 19:48
Maybe you are overwhelmed by too many details. The Principle of Explosion claims this: (A & ~A) proves B
June 04, 2024 at 18:17
(A & ~A) proves B is the POE (A & ~A) proves FALSE is the actual correct inference Two aspects of the same case.
June 04, 2024 at 00:51
Yet when D is a contradiction we know that D is not true.
June 03, 2024 at 22:49
That seems to not be restrictive enough. From your idea Donald Trump is Christ is entailed by the Moon is made from green cheese because the Moon is m...
June 03, 2024 at 22:19
I am talking about how the categorical propositions of the syllogism directly encode semantics thousands of years before anyone every heard of model t...
June 03, 2024 at 22:04
That most philosophers were convinced by Quine that the analytic/synthetic distinction does not exist, thus it is impossible to divide expressions {tr...
June 03, 2024 at 19:36
The POE says the everything is logically entailed by a contradiction and it is simply wrong about this. A & ~ A proves FALSE and nothing more.
June 03, 2024 at 19:33
In other words you disagree with the Wikipedia quote. I disagree with the Principle of Explosion itself. There are no semantics passed from any contra...
June 03, 2024 at 17:45
Disagrees with this:
June 03, 2024 at 13:49
I do know the distinction between valid and true. https://iep.utm.edu/val-snd/ So see how you can use this distinction to explain how what you said di...
June 03, 2024 at 04:02
Let just talk about the POE. (A & ~A) prove B no matter what A and B are. (1) We know that "Not all lemons are yellow", as it has been assumed to be t...
June 03, 2024 at 03:04
In other words you did not understand that I just provided the essence of the foundation of expressions that are {true on the basis of their meaning} ...
June 03, 2024 at 02:46
It took me twenty years to unequivocally prove that something just like the analytic side of the analytic synthetic distinction really exists. Most ph...
June 03, 2024 at 02:42
I am talking about semantic entailment that has nothing to do with model theory. The reason the error of the Principle of Explosion has slipped throug...
June 03, 2024 at 02:36
It has taken me twenty years to derive the architectural overview that I just provided. A key aspect of this is defining expressions that are {true on...
June 02, 2024 at 22:33
I am NOT doing it that way. The meanings of terms are specified in a knowledge ontology type hierarchy. The compositional meaning of expressions is de...
June 02, 2024 at 22:18
One expression of formal language or formalized natural P or ~P can either be connected to a set of semantic meanings specified as formal language or ...
June 02, 2024 at 20:40
When any expression P or ~P has no connection through truth preserving operations to elements of the set of expressions of specified semantic meanings...
June 02, 2024 at 20:31
That may make conventional sense. In my system semantic meaning is fully integrated directly into the language. This makes things such as the principl...
June 02, 2024 at 20:15
I already specified that the R I am referring to is the set of semantic meanings specified as expressions of language. This is the key foundation of m...
June 02, 2024 at 19:40
You simply ignored most of what I said. I didn't read beyond the point where you proved that you ignored my definition of R. (expressions of language ...
June 02, 2024 at 18:51
Three laws of logic apply to all propositions ¬(p ? ¬p) Law of non-contradiction (p ? ¬p) Law of excluded middle p = p Law of identity Because of Quin...
June 02, 2024 at 17:43
The sentence <IS> derived from his Liar Paradox and has the same sort of paradoxical result. I am taking your last post as an indication that you are ...
May 29, 2024 at 03:17
"This sentence is not provable" is not provable because that would require a sequence of inference steps that prove that they themselves do not exist.
May 29, 2024 at 02:59
Only when you fail to understand that True(L,x) requires a sequence of truth preserving operations from basic facts that are other expressions of lang...
May 29, 2024 at 02:47
You are not paying close enough attention x ? True if and only if p x {is not a member of} True x ? True if and only if p x {is a member of} True
May 29, 2024 at 01:57
The formalized liar Paradox is adapted to become line 1 of the proof.
May 29, 2024 at 01:27
You must carefully study pages 247, 248, 275, and 276. I have spent hundreds of hours on those four pages over the last several years. From this basis...
May 28, 2024 at 22:56
In other words he does not understand that the derived liar sentence must be rejected as a non-truth-bearer thus a type mismatch error for any formal ...
May 28, 2024 at 18:43
has this as its original source: Which is the paper that I have been citing. Let's FULLY address this one single point before we attempt to address an...
May 28, 2024 at 18:02
I am not a very good communicator, maybe this is more clear Tarski's Liar Paradox from page 248 It would then be possible to reconstruct the antinomy ...
May 28, 2024 at 17:41