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Whether or not the mathematics mentioned here properly applies to the paradoxes mentioned, at least we should be clear about that mathematics. Adding ...
June 02, 2024 at 21:28
On may reasonably propose an alternative formalized logic, but a formalized logic requires that we have a purely mechanical method by which to determi...
June 02, 2024 at 20:19
The context I am using is ordinary mathematical logic applied to classical logic: For a given language, we have different models. A model is an interp...
June 02, 2024 at 20:04
To the point about paradox: 'paradox' may be defined in different ways. I'll use this definiens: a contradiction derived from seemingly acceptable pre...
May 29, 2024 at 04:18
An example of intellectually dishonest posting is a poster evading 1000 times that being inspired by an analogy between ideas does not entail that the...
May 29, 2024 at 03:24
Meanwhile, just for sake of keeping the eye on the ball: Godel proves incompleteness/undecidability, and the liar sentence is not in that proof. Tarsk...
May 29, 2024 at 03:19
Now that the poster cannot support his dogmatically ignorant and confused claim (that the liar sentence appears in Tarski's proof of undecidabilty) th...
May 29, 2024 at 03:09
I have no false assumptions in this context. But one of the many ridiculously dogmatic and ignorant false assumptions of the poster is that "This sent...
May 29, 2024 at 02:50
The proof on pages 275-276 is a proof of the undecidability of certain sound systems (a system is sound if and only if all its theorems are true). It ...
May 29, 2024 at 02:46
I did err in my previous post by overlooking the negation sign. And I should have emphasized again, for the 100th time, that 'unprovable' and 'untrue'...
May 29, 2024 at 02:14
Line 1 is: ~x e Pr if and only if p. That is to say, "x is not provable if and only if p." As has been pointed out over and over, that is not the liar...
May 29, 2024 at 01:38
This deserves an award for being one of the most goofball comments ever posted: "I have spent hundreds of hours on those four pages over the last seve...
May 29, 2024 at 01:14
It has been fully addressed that the proof of undecidability on pages 275-276 does not use the liar sentence at any step. / I am not opining about a n...
May 28, 2024 at 20:39
x e T if and only if p is not the liar sentence. Rather, it is the general truth scheme. For formal languages, the particulars of p are filled in per ...
May 28, 2024 at 20:23
First, as has been pointed out to the poster at least a dozen times, this is not a proof of undefinability. It is a proof of undecidability. In that p...
May 28, 2024 at 17:44
The easily verifiable fact is that in the undecidability proof, pages 275-276 of the paper, Tarski does not use the liar sentence in any step in that ...
May 28, 2024 at 17:06
Regarding the definition of 'antinomy', the point stands that, contrary to the poster's misconception, the definition is not merely 'self-contradictio...
May 28, 2024 at 16:40
One can look in a dictionary or in books and articles to see that there is more to being an antinomy than merely being a self-contradiction, especiall...
May 28, 2024 at 06:17
In sum: (1) In the Tarski proof of undecidability lately discussed here, Tarski did not use the liar sentence, but rather he used a different formulat...
May 28, 2024 at 06:02
It could only be a mistake if the footnote didn't pertain to the passages that begin with "The analogy ". So if one concedes, by actually reading the ...
May 28, 2024 at 05:45
He said, even as you admit that he swapped, that the proof uses 'provable' instead of 'true'. That is not the liar paradox.
May 28, 2024 at 05:43
I guess the poster won't concede that footnote 14 is to the passages that begin by saying that the antinomies are analogous to the Godel argument. Rat...
May 28, 2024 at 05:37
In another thread, I showed exactly that Tarski did not use the liar sentence in the proof discussed there. For the 100th time, Tarski himself said th...
May 28, 2024 at 05:32
(1) The footnote pertains to the sense of using the antinomy analogously to a certain argument. That argument does not itself use the antinomy, but ra...
May 28, 2024 at 05:24
The context in which they are not mistaken is the context in which he wrote them. The poster seems to have a problem: Posting the quote from the footn...
May 28, 2024 at 05:10
An antinomy is not just any self-contradiction.
May 28, 2024 at 05:01
Whatever the case about compositional meaning, 'epistemology antinomy' does not mean merely 'self-contradictory'.
May 28, 2024 at 04:58
Godel is not wrong. What is wrong is brazenly, dishonestly attributing to him out of context, and then doing it yet again even after the context was r...
May 28, 2024 at 04:45
The meaning of 'antinomy' or 'epistemological antinomy' is not just 'self-contradictory'.
May 28, 2024 at 04:28
I am looking at the only Godel-approved translation right now. Page 598 of 'From Frege To Godel'. "The ANALOGY of this argument " which is the context...
May 28, 2024 at 04:16
We can read the many posts in which the poster claimed that Godel used the liar sentence (i.e. the epistemological antinomy) in the proof. And the quo...
May 28, 2024 at 03:59
Saying again that Godel used the liar sentence in the incompleteness/undecidability proofs is to yet again ignore the plain hard fact that he did not....
May 28, 2024 at 03:34
It has been pointed out at least half a dozen times in other threads: Godel is referring to using the general idea of such paradoxes to spring the ide...
May 28, 2024 at 00:31
Godel didn't hide steps regarding Godel numbering or diaganolization. Rather they are treated in exact detail. "x is true if and only p" is not, accor...
May 27, 2024 at 20:40
It was explained exactly why your versions are not paradoxes. Clear versions are available on the Internet. Moreover, I stated clear versions in this ...
May 27, 2024 at 17:27
Of course there are many kinds of paradoxes ranging formal to informal. But you referred to Russell's barber paradox, which is an informal illustratio...
May 26, 2024 at 19:00
The video about the liar paradox and incompleteness is atrocious, ignorant, lying disinformation. (1) The video, in its juvenile way, dishonestly mock...
May 26, 2024 at 02:09
(1) Higher order logics are usually 2-valued, especially the most famous and most studied ones. One may devise other valuations, but ordinary higher o...
May 25, 2024 at 23:33
Such utterly incidental questions as to the meaning of 'barber' can't seriously be considered part of the subject of paradox. Anyway, looking in sever...
May 25, 2024 at 23:15
(1) The proof on pages 275-276 of the Tarski paper is not a proof of undefinability, but rather it is a proof of undecidability, specifically that the...
May 25, 2024 at 23:06
To reiterate, the paradox doesn't even need any mention of maleness, barbers, towns or even humans. It is best seen in its starkest form: Something sh...
May 25, 2024 at 22:11
'the barber of Seville' is a definite description. There are different ways of handling definite descriptions, including, at least, both the Fregean a...
May 25, 2024 at 22:00
In: Infinity  — view comment
(1) If one insists on the premise that it makes no sense to speak of mathematical objects, then one may hold that it makes no sense to speak of the la...
May 25, 2024 at 20:23
We could add that men of Seville are shaved only by men of Seville and that every man of Seville is shaved, and still we would not have a paradox in e...
May 25, 2024 at 19:57
You could study the subject more to learn how to express your idea in an understandable way. But, of course, that would be a matter of how you spend y...
May 25, 2024 at 19:53
In this context, to claim that there is a paradox is to show how a contradiction is drawn. But there is no contradiction drawn from "The Barber of Sev...
May 25, 2024 at 19:25
I understood from your first post that you are not well versed in logic. So I have offered information that would help you, have pointed out where you...
May 25, 2024 at 18:38
As I said, an isomorphism is a 1-1 structure preserving function. What is the domain and range of the function you wish to adduce. What is the relatio...
May 24, 2024 at 22:18
Perhaps there are other people who understand what you're saying or asking, but I don't. It would help if you specified in already understood mathemat...
May 24, 2024 at 22:09
Symbolize: Sy <-> y lives in Seville My <-> y is a man Hxy <-> x shaves y Premises: Sb & Mb Ay((Sy & My & ~y=b) -> Hby) ~Hbb Consistent with those pre...
May 24, 2024 at 18:33