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That's good. Though, it's logically true anyway. Next is to fix line 3 of Argument A.
May 15, 2021 at 03:43
Liar paradox: If "This sentence is false" is true, then "This sentence is false" is false. and If "This sentence is false" is false, then "This senten...
May 15, 2021 at 02:49
Whatever you mean to say, if you want me to understand it (especially to understand it exactly) then you need to rewrite it without a number between a...
May 15, 2021 at 02:48
I can't make sense of that with the numbers interposed as written. I don't know what is meant by interposing a number between an adjective and what it...
May 15, 2021 at 02:41
To begin with in all that, what's your definition of "real thing"?
May 15, 2021 at 02:02
I don't like that tree. The order and proximities seem incorrect and haphazard in places.The Venn diagram is better.
May 15, 2021 at 00:37
As As a taxpayer, I'm quite happy for my share - my .00002 cents - to have contributed to your research. More, if I had it to give.
May 15, 2021 at 00:36
There's an interesting angle on this. In the language of PA we can express. Sentence S can't be negated. It's false, but it can be stated in the langu...
May 14, 2021 at 21:41
Bottom line for your exercise: 'This sentence can be negated' is true and not paradoxical. 'This sentence can't be negated' is false and not paradoxic...
May 14, 2021 at 20:16
Your exercise is not in a mathematical context, which is okay, but it's worth noting comparison with mathematics (I'm simplifying here). Consider: Thi...
May 14, 2021 at 20:03
Putting '(1)' between 'this' and 'statement' is not coherent. And putting '(2)' between 'this' and 'statement' is not coherent. Maybe you mean: If "th...
May 14, 2021 at 19:28
P.S. In Argument A, 2. does not need to be taken as a premise. 2. follows from 1. by UI.
May 14, 2021 at 17:55
If you wish to revise further, then please state any further amended arguments in new posts, so that my replies are still pertinent relative to the po...
May 14, 2021 at 17:43
That's a major re-edit of the OP after several edits. Before I reply, is that your final edit?
May 14, 2021 at 14:16
Every sentence can be negated, simply by putting a negation sign in front of the sentence. Doing that is purely a syntactical operation. It does not m...
May 14, 2021 at 06:32
I think you mean you would be surprised. That seems reasonable. On the other hand, if an outlandish or "out of thin air" existence claim is asserted, ...
May 13, 2021 at 23:32
You mentioned "sufficient evidence". I'm wondering whether we would deem my knowledge of kangaroos to be sufficient to have a reasonable belief that t...
May 13, 2021 at 21:55
"There exists a fish with blue fins and a green body." I don't assume that is true and I don't assume that it is false. "There exists a striped kangar...
May 13, 2021 at 20:42
Interesting that Algebra dominates. I would have thought it would be Analysis and its offshoots.
May 13, 2021 at 18:39
There is a difference between "S is false" and "I disbelieve S." "S is false" in many contexts raises expectation of demonstration that S is false. Bu...
May 13, 2021 at 18:17
One more time: We are in a context of everyday English. Then, I have given a mathematical representation of that everyday English sense. A mathematica...
May 13, 2021 at 17:42
Why do you keep saying I've avoided the question when I have not, when, indeed, I have answered several times and with copious explanation and detail?...
May 13, 2021 at 17:28
Possible outcomes: ExBx Black dog found before end. $500 and get to go home early. Black dog found at end. $500. Black dog not found. Wasted time tryi...
May 13, 2021 at 17:17
For any given consistent system S, there are infinitely many theorems and infinitely many non-theorems.
May 13, 2021 at 05:30
I'd be curious what the percentages are for each of the branches. To not have it too Balkanized, it would have to be large groupings like: Foundations...
May 13, 2021 at 05:05
That chart seems to capture discovery not proof. For example, the min in row 4 is 1 only because we discover that there is a black dog and give up try...
May 13, 2021 at 04:38
Here are some more problems with that article: (1) The sqrt(2) proof does not make clear its indirect form. Indirect in clear form would be to assume ...
May 13, 2021 at 02:39
That was a while ago. But you're still asking! There you even correctly posted yourself that you surmise that I agree that if we count 2 objects then ...
May 13, 2021 at 01:32
Not in the real world. I eat the whole pie all at once. Math needs to correspond to reality!
May 12, 2021 at 22:51
Definitions: x is rational iff x equals a ratio of integers x is irrational iff ~ x is rational Theorems: x is irrational iff ~ x equals a ratio of in...
May 12, 2021 at 22:00
I took out what I previously posted in this message. My questions were not needed.
May 12, 2021 at 20:37
Proof that certain reals have infinite expansions does not rely on assumptions that patterns repeat. No, it is not endless. Proofs in mathematics are ...
May 12, 2021 at 20:25
No, it is proven. Perhaps you might say that the axioms are arbitrary. But, given the axioms, proof that some reals have infinite decimal expansions i...
May 12, 2021 at 20:22
As mentioned, 'proof by contradiction' is not the right term. And such cases can more comprehensively be described as 'deductively proving'. We may pr...
May 12, 2021 at 18:29
Right, case-by-case in an indeterminate domain. The ordinary proof that the square root of 2 is irrational is not a proof by contradiction. Assuming P...
May 12, 2021 at 17:44
Be careful with the terms 'proof by contradiction' and 'indirect proof'. This is the form of proof by contradiction (indirect proof): Assume ~P Derive...
May 12, 2021 at 17:32
I've answered that already a few times. To have a non-empty count, of course there exist the objects counted, and in you example, these objects are bo...
May 12, 2021 at 17:22
For a consistent formal (I always mean 'consistent formal' in this context) system S, there is an infinite enumeration of the proofs. So it is linear,...
May 12, 2021 at 17:16
No, what have truth values are statements. What have a truth values are the statements "There exists a natural number that is the successor of 0" and ...
May 12, 2021 at 04:35
I asked whoever said that numbers have truth value(s)? Or is it your own claim that numbers have truth value(s)?
May 12, 2021 at 04:19
Whoever said numbers have truth value(s)?
May 12, 2021 at 04:17
The second one is reasonable. The first one is a mess.
May 12, 2021 at 04:16
Too literal about the word 'religious'? It is used as cudgel. So it is good, as a starting point at least, to point out that it is not literally true.
May 12, 2021 at 04:15
It was not 'rationalistic'; it was 'over rationalistic'. And it's not that I find it so insulting, but that it is ad hominem.
May 12, 2021 at 04:13
Godel discusses formal theories. What does "provable from the ground up" mean in regards to Godel's incompleteness theorem?
May 12, 2021 at 04:13
" and are critically different.
May 12, 2021 at 04:11
Of course I don't. I listed a good number of the major features of religion. I don't relate to mathematics with any of those features.
May 12, 2021 at 04:08
Oh please, a minor pedantic shift in the way one casts an ad hominem doesn't erase it's affect as an hominem.
May 12, 2021 at 04:07
And that doesn't deserve the mangled version you posted earlier. It's not clear what "line to be drawn" means there. And every formula is provable in ...
May 12, 2021 at 04:05