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It has been answered again and again and again. The answer is: RAA
August 03, 2024 at 00:59
If you gave a definition of 'valid' in your sense, then we could evaluate your claims about it. Meanwhile, in ordinary formal logic the common definit...
August 03, 2024 at 00:58
Your example didn't mix styles. It was fine. All I did was show how to formulate the proof without 'premise', 'assumption', 'supposition' or 'contradi...
August 03, 2024 at 00:46
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/922432 And "discharged" in scare quotes is silly and juvenile.
August 03, 2024 at 00:42
The poster is doing it again! Trying to discredit interlocutors by painting them with a brush "truth-functional", even after I had at least a few time...
August 03, 2024 at 00:39
The poster continues to indicate that he does not know what validity is in this context and that he is unwilling to read the posts to which responds. ...
August 03, 2024 at 00:19
I edited to provide more explanation. My edit did not alter the substance of what was there before the edit. And it was it was not "pointed out" at th...
August 02, 2024 at 23:29
To be clear, I was not faulting your formulation, but rather only showing, contrary to the other poster, that it does not require an appeal to 'premis...
August 02, 2024 at 23:22
If one looks at previous posts by me, one would see that I also directly, explicitly and formally addressed the matter that RAA also provides: 1. A ->...
August 02, 2024 at 23:10
Without the word 'assumption': 1. A -> (B & ~B) {1} 2. A {2} 3. B & ~B {1, 2} 4. ~A {1} G is {A -> (B & ~B)} P is A Q is B G u {P} |- Q & ~Q, so G |- ...
August 02, 2024 at 22:55
Understanding RAA doesn't require reference to 'premise', 'assumption', 'suppostion' or 'contradiction'. Here is RAA in exact formulation: What is "se...
August 02, 2024 at 22:50
The Aristotelians here don't cotton to it.
August 02, 2024 at 20:41
You were right when you said: "a cat" and "a carnivorous mammal long domesticated as a pet and for catching rats and mice" are interchangeable. You we...
August 02, 2024 at 17:27
By the way, your comments about dictionaries led me to discover that, unlike years ago, OED is free online. It definitely is a much richer resource th...
August 02, 2024 at 16:24
It's a hard job. Some companies don't mind too much agents spending whatever time is needed on a call. Other companies hector agents to get off calls ...
August 02, 2024 at 04:02
Neither of those, but what you say is interesting. I guess it is a thing.
August 02, 2024 at 01:16
This stands and is central:
August 02, 2024 at 00:58
This stands, at least so far:
August 02, 2024 at 00:56
Your argument for that, as with the video, is shot down at the git-go by mentioning that the argument relies on the false equation: "This string" equa...
August 02, 2024 at 00:43
The video you suggested said that: "this sentence" equals "this sentence is false". That is plainly a falsehood. It would help if you not skip that po...
August 02, 2024 at 00:36
My arguments are straightforward. I am explicit in the steps so that they can be understood exactly or so that they can be corrected exactly. Meanwhil...
August 01, 2024 at 21:58
Any pronoun could be referring to something different. "This ball is light" could be referring to any ball anywhere. But I don't think that way. It is...
August 01, 2024 at 05:23
You skipped that I caught a false claim by you: If you skip refutations, then we won't get anywhere. You skipped my argument, for the second time (as ...
August 01, 2024 at 04:38
I like that word. When I was a kid, my dear friend was a San Francisco Giants fan amidst all the other kids who were Dodgers fans. He chose that path ...
August 01, 2024 at 02:53
Whether tangential or not, it raised an important and interesting point. The reason yours was not a correct translation is instructive. And it wasn't ...
August 01, 2024 at 02:49
That's good. I disagreed with it many pages ago, as I saw immediately that it's wrong. (Not too very bumptious of me to say. winky face emoji whatever...
August 01, 2024 at 02:47
I'm referring to your correct point (shared by you, Leontiskos, Banno, and me) that instead of refuting P, we could refute one of the other premises. ...
August 01, 2024 at 02:42
I linked exactly to your post. No matter how many intervening posts, all you had to do was click on your name under my quote of you. But you chose to ...
August 01, 2024 at 02:32
We know that the assumptions are inconsistent, not merely that one of them is false. But, of course, if a set is inconsistent, then for any interpreta...
August 01, 2024 at 02:05
Ugh^ugh (that's ugh to the power of ugh). I lightly jibed, aiming at myself as much as anyone; and you turn it a thing. But since your revisionist att...
August 01, 2024 at 01:59
You can use the notation however you wish, but in my formulations, G is a set of formulas not a formula, and on the left side of the turnstile is a se...
August 01, 2024 at 01:56
In: Infinity  — view comment
The cranks says, "I have no idea what Tones has been talking about" I do like when occasionally the crank speaks truthfully. And characteristic of him...
July 31, 2024 at 03:41
Throughout my previous post, inside the strings, instead of 'sentence' we may say 'string' (and we could do that throughout : 'This string has five wo...
July 31, 2024 at 03:18
Regarding axioms in proofs: I'll call both of the two forms below 'RAA' (though different writers label them in different ways): (1) If Gu{P} |- Q and...
July 31, 2024 at 00:27
Ugh. From the post I quoted: That was from 13 days ago. I entered the thread 19 days ago. So, "The post you quoted there was before you joined these t...
July 30, 2024 at 23:06
You asked: So I answered correctly that it is not. And I showed an actual RAA. Yours is a valid inference, but it is not formulated as RAA. I mention ...
July 30, 2024 at 23:02
In: Infinity  — view comment
I'd like to see the crank try to write mathematics in English without referring to sets, numbers, etc. as if they are things of some kind. Specificall...
July 30, 2024 at 03:31
In: Infinity  — view comment
Welcome to another episode of 'A Day In The Life Of Muddlefizzle Undergarment Internet Crank': Huston Lover: I saw 'The Maltese Falcon' again last nig...
July 30, 2024 at 02:45
(1) According to you, they are not versed in foundations of mathematics. So, by what basis do you claim that they take first order PA to be "the axiom...
July 30, 2024 at 01:17
"This sentence is false" You regard that sentence as meaningless on the basis that self-reference is meaningless when applied to a sentence. But is it...
July 29, 2024 at 23:19
So what? The incompleteness theorem has nothing to do with that, since the incompleteness theorem regards formal theories in which the axioms are expl...
July 29, 2024 at 06:26
Of course. Meanwhile, it is crucial not to say, "G can not be demonstrated from the axioms of mathematics", since that is plainly false. And the lectu...
July 29, 2024 at 06:24
It's Russell's paradox illustrated anecdotally. It's actually a theorem schema of first order logic, whether 'shaves', 'is an element of' or any other...
July 28, 2024 at 21:11
You seem to be missing that it's not just that B shaves only those who do not shave themselves, but also that B shaves all those who do not shave them...
July 28, 2024 at 20:49
In: Infinity  — view comment
What is the crank's definition of 'a fiction'?
July 28, 2024 at 20:07
Yes, the supposition that he shaves all and only those who do not shave themselves implies that he does shave himself. But that supposition also impli...
July 28, 2024 at 20:02
I'd like to know those arguments in context. On the other hand, in reverse, of course it is often mentioned that consideration of the liar paradox hel...
July 28, 2024 at 19:44
But we must keep in mind that there are crucial differences between the liar sentence and the Godel sentence.
July 28, 2024 at 19:37