• Re: A new category of thought

    From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory on Wed Dec 3 12:36:34 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is
    a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all
    combinations of the truth values of its variables and propositions,
    which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent.


    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term for
    "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take some effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing.

    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean any expression of language
    that is proven true entirely on the basis of its meaning expressed
    in language.

    This includes expressions that do not define anything.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.lang on Wed Dec 3 12:41:03 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 16.00:
    On 12/2/2025 2:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 1.12.2025 klo 19.15:
    On 12/1/2025 5:02 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 23.59:

    G := (F ⊬ G) // G says of itself that it is unprovable in F

    With a reasonable type system that is a type error:
    - the symbol ⊬ requires a sentence on the right side
    - the value of the ⊬ operation is a truth value
    - the symbol := requires the same type on both sides
    - thus G must be both a sentence and a truth value

    But G cannot be both. A sentence has a truth value but it isn't one.


    % This sentence cannot be proven in F
    ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).
    G = not(provable(F, G)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).
    false.

    It is an expression of language having no truth value
    because it is not a logic sentence.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(mathematical_logic)

    Yes, that is the exxential difference between the two G's.
    The expession F ⊬ G has a truth value because it is either
    true or false

    I propose that is a false assumption.

    If you want to propose anygthng like that you should
    (a) specify what is the assumption you want to propose as false
    (b) why should that assumption be considered false
    (c) what assumption would be true or at least less obviously false
    --
    Mikko
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Wed Dec 3 09:09:37 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/3/2025 4:36 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is
    a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all
    combinations of the truth values of its variables and propositions, >>>>>> which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent.


    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term for
    "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take some effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing.

    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean any expression of language
    that is proven true entirely on the basis of its meaning expressed
    in language.

    This includes expressions that do not define anything.


    It does not.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.lang on Wed Dec 3 09:59:49 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/3/2025 4:41 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 16.00:
    On 12/2/2025 2:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 1.12.2025 klo 19.15:
    On 12/1/2025 5:02 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 23.59:

    G := (F ⊬ G) // G says of itself that it is unprovable in F

    With a reasonable type system that is a type error:
    - the symbol ⊬ requires a sentence on the right side
    - the value of the ⊬ operation is a truth value
    - the symbol := requires the same type on both sides
    - thus G must be both a sentence and a truth value

    But G cannot be both. A sentence has a truth value but it isn't one. >>>>>

    % This sentence cannot be proven in F
    ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).
    G = not(provable(F, G)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).
    false.

    It is an expression of language having no truth value
    because it is not a logic sentence.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(mathematical_logic)

    Yes, that is the exxential difference between the two G's.
    The expession F ⊬ G has a truth value because it is either
    true or false

    I propose that is a false assumption.

    If you want to propose anygthng like that you should
    (a) specify what is the assumption you want to propose as false
    (b) why should that assumption be considered false
    (c) what assumption would be true or at least less obviously false


    ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).
    G = not(provable(F, G)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).
    false.

    G is neither True nor False its resolution remains stuck
    in an infinite loop.

    BEGIN:(Clocksin & Mellish 2003:254)
    Finally, a note about how Prolog matching sometimes differs from the unification used in Resolution. Most Prolog systems will allow you to
    satisfy goals like:

    equal(X, X).
    ?- equal(foo(Y), Y).

    that is, they will allow you to match a term against an uninstantiated
    subterm of itself. In this example, foo(Y) is matched against Y,
    which appears within it. As a result, Y will stand for foo(Y), which is foo(foo(Y)) (because of what Y stands for), which is foo(foo(foo(Y))),
    and so on. So Y ends up standing for some kind of infinite structure. END:(Clocksin & Mellish 2003:254)
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory on Thu Dec 4 11:50:42 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.09:
    On 12/3/2025 4:36 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is
    a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all
    combinations of the truth values of its variables and propositions, >>>>>>> which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent.


    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term for
    "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take some effort >>>> to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing.

    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean any expression of language
    that is proven true entirely on the basis of its meaning expressed
    in language.

    This includes expressions that do not define anything.


    It does not.

    For example, "A square is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the
    basis of the meanings of the words but does not define anything.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Thu Dec 4 08:46:14 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/4/2025 3:50 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.09:
    On 12/3/2025 4:36 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is
    a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all
    combinations of the truth values of its variables and propositions, >>>>>>>> which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent.


    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term for
    "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take some effort >>>>> to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing.

    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean any expression of language
    that is proven true entirely on the basis of its meaning expressed
    in language.

    This includes expressions that do not define anything.


    It does not.

    For example, "A square is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the
    basis of the meanings of the words but does not define anything.



    That is deduced from the definitions of square and triangle.
    They are defined with mutually exclusive properties.

    2.2 Truthmakers for Negative Truths https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truthmakers/#TruMakForNegTru
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.lang on Fri Dec 5 10:48:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.59:
    On 12/3/2025 4:41 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 16.00:
    On 12/2/2025 2:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 1.12.2025 klo 19.15:
    On 12/1/2025 5:02 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 23.59:

    G := (F ⊬ G) // G says of itself that it is unprovable in F

    With a reasonable type system that is a type error:
    - the symbol ⊬ requires a sentence on the right side
    - the value of the ⊬ operation is a truth value
    - the symbol := requires the same type on both sides
    - thus G must be both a sentence and a truth value

    But G cannot be both. A sentence has a truth value but it isn't one. >>>>>>

    % This sentence cannot be proven in F
    ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).
    G = not(provable(F, G)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).
    false.

    It is an expression of language having no truth value
    because it is not a logic sentence.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(mathematical_logic)

    Yes, that is the exxential difference between the two G's.
    The expession F ⊬ G has a truth value because it is either
    true or false

    I propose that is a false assumption.

    If you want to propose anygthng like that you should
    (a) specify what is the assumption you want to propose as false
    (b) why should that assumption be considered false
    (c) what assumption would be true or at least less obviously false

    ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).
    G = not(provable(F, G)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).
    false.

    G is neither True nor False its resolution remains stuck
    in an infinite loop.

    BEGIN:(Clocksin & Mellish 2003:254)
    Finally, a note about how Prolog matching sometimes differs from the unification used in Resolution. Most Prolog systems will allow you to
    satisfy goals like:

    equal(X, X).
    ?- equal(foo(Y), Y).

    that is, they will allow you to match a term against an uninstantiated subterm of itself. In this example, foo(Y) is matched against Y,
    which appears within it. As a result, Y will stand for foo(Y), which is foo(foo(Y)) (because of what Y stands for), which is foo(foo(foo(Y))),
    and so on. So Y ends up standing for some kind of infinite structure. END:(Clocksin & Mellish 2003:254)

    As even (a) is not answered we must interprete the above to mean
    that you retracted your proposal.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Fri Dec 5 10:52:34 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    olcott kirjoitti 4.12.2025 klo 16.46:
    On 12/4/2025 3:50 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.09:
    On 12/3/2025 4:36 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is
    a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all
    combinations of the truth values of its variables and
    propositions,
    which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent. >>>>>>>>>

    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term for >>>>>>> "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take some
    effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing.

    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean any expression of language
    that is proven true entirely on the basis of its meaning expressed
    in language.

    This includes expressions that do not define anything.

    It does not.

    For example, "A square is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the
    basis of the meanings of the words but does not define anything.

    That is deduced from the definitions of square and triangle.
    They are defined with mutually exclusive properties.

    Nice to see that you don't disagree with my observation that "A square
    is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the basis of the menanings of
    the words but does not define anything and therefore that there are
    semantic tautologies that don't define anything, retracting your earlier statement.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.lang on Fri Dec 5 10:57:50 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is
    a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all
    combinations of the truth values of its variables and propositions,
    which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent.


    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term for
    "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take some effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing.

    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    A semantic tautology needn't define any words and usually doesn't. It
    can be and usually is expressed with words that already have meanings.
    The definition of "semantic logical tautology" presented above doesn't
    require that it define any of its word.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.lang on Fri Dec 5 09:30:02 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 05/12/2025 08:48, Mikko wrote:

    As even (a) is not answered we must interprete the above to mean
    that you retracted your proposal.


    false.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.lang on Fri Dec 5 10:41:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/5/2025 2:48 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.59:
    On 12/3/2025 4:41 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 16.00:
    On 12/2/2025 2:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 1.12.2025 klo 19.15:
    On 12/1/2025 5:02 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 23.59:

    G := (F ⊬ G) // G says of itself that it is unprovable in F

    With a reasonable type system that is a type error:
    - the symbol ⊬ requires a sentence on the right side
    - the value of the ⊬ operation is a truth value
    - the symbol := requires the same type on both sides
    - thus G must be both a sentence and a truth value

    But G cannot be both. A sentence has a truth value but it isn't one. >>>>>>>

    % This sentence cannot be proven in F
    ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).
    G = not(provable(F, G)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).
    false.

    It is an expression of language having no truth value
    because it is not a logic sentence.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(mathematical_logic)

    Yes, that is the exxential difference between the two G's.
    The expession F ⊬ G has a truth value because it is either
    true or false

    I propose that is a false assumption.

    If you want to propose anygthng like that you should
    (a) specify what is the assumption you want to propose as false
    (b) why should that assumption be considered false
    (c) what assumption would be true or at least less obviously false

    ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).
    G = not(provable(F, G)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).
    false.

    G is neither True nor False its resolution remains stuck
    in an infinite loop.

    BEGIN:(Clocksin & Mellish 2003:254)
    Finally, a note about how Prolog matching sometimes differs from the
    unification used in Resolution. Most Prolog systems will allow you to
    satisfy goals like:

    equal(X, X).
    ?- equal(foo(Y), Y).

    that is, they will allow you to match a term against an uninstantiated
    subterm of itself. In this example, foo(Y) is matched against Y,
    which appears within it. As a result, Y will stand for foo(Y), which is
    foo(foo(Y)) (because of what Y stands for), which is foo(foo(foo(Y))),
    and so on. So Y ends up standing for some kind of infinite structure.
    END:(Clocksin & Mellish 2003:254)

    As even (a) is not answered we must interprete the above to mean
    that you retracted your proposal.


    If you understood the above you would understand
    that I already answered (a) in 100% complete detail.

    The assumption that is false is that G is not
    semantically incoherent.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Fri Dec 5 11:21:56 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/5/2025 2:52 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 4.12.2025 klo 16.46:
    On 12/4/2025 3:50 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.09:
    On 12/3/2025 4:36 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is
    a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all >>>>>>>>>> combinations of the truth values of its variables and
    propositions,
    which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent. >>>>>>>>>>

    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term for >>>>>>>> "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take some >>>>>>> effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing.

    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean any expression of language
    that is proven true entirely on the basis of its meaning expressed
    in language.

    This includes expressions that do not define anything.

    It does not.

    For example, "A square is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the
    basis of the meanings of the words but does not define anything.

    That is deduced from the definitions of square and triangle.
    They are defined with mutually exclusive properties.

    Nice to see that you don't disagree with my observation that "A square
    is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the basis of the menanings of
    the words but does not define anything

    In other words you are trying to get away with
    saying the dictionaries are entirely comprised
    of meaningless gibberish, and not even a single
    word is defined.

    and therefore that there are
    semantic tautologies that don't define anything, retracting your earlier statement.

    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.lang on Fri Dec 5 11:30:18 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/5/2025 2:57 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is
    a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all
    combinations of the truth values of its variables and propositions, >>>>>> which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent.


    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term for
    "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take some effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing.

    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    A semantic tautology needn't define any words and usually doesn't.

    [semantic tautology] is my term thus giving me absolute
    authority over its meaning. I stipulate that it derives
    all of its meaning from the base meaning of its constituents
    composed together.

    It
    can be and usually is expressed with words that already have meanings.
    The definition of "semantic logical tautology" presented above doesn't require that it define any of its word.


    "I will be going to the grocery store in a few minutes"
    Is not typically construed as any king of logic sentence
    so I am expressly enlarging the scope of the the term
    "tautology" and expressly removing the notion of any
    syntactic basis by stipulating a "semantic" basis.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(logic)
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpIEcuIElzYWFr?=@agisaak@gm.invalid to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Fri Dec 5 19:57:10 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-12-05 10:21, olcott wrote:
    On 12/5/2025 2:52 AM, Mikko wrote:

    Nice to see that you don't disagree with my observation that "A square
    is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the basis of the menanings of
    the words but does not define anything

    In other words you are trying to get away with
    saying the dictionaries are entirely comprised
    of meaningless gibberish, and not even a single
    word is defined.

    A dictionary is useless unless you're already fluent in the language in
    which it is written.

    If you think otherwise, go to your local library and check out a
    (monolingual) dictionary of Hindi, Chinese, or any other language you're
    not familiar with and see how successful you are at learning the
    meanings of any words in that language just by reading a dictionary.

    Monolingual dictionaries target people who already have a vocabulary in
    the given language and who understand how at least some of the
    vocabulary of that language relates to the empirical world. To someone
    who does not they really would be just "meaningless gibberish".

    André
    --
    To email remove 'invalid' & replace 'gm' with well known Google mail
    service.

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Fri Dec 5 21:18:32 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/5/2025 8:57 PM, André G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2025-12-05 10:21, olcott wrote:
    On 12/5/2025 2:52 AM, Mikko wrote:

    Nice to see that you don't disagree with my observation that "A square
    is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the basis of the menanings of
    the words but does not define anything

    In other words you are trying to get away with
    saying the dictionaries are entirely comprised
    of meaningless gibberish, and not even a single
    word is defined.

    A dictionary is useless unless you're already fluent in the language in which it is written.


    This is generally true for humans. Apparently
    LLM systems can reverse-engineer semantics
    when they are given a sufficient number of
    relations to finite strings, such as a dictionary.

    If you think otherwise, go to your local library and check out a (monolingual) dictionary of Hindi, Chinese, or any other language you're
    not familiar with and see how successful you are at learning the
    meanings of any words in that language just by reading a dictionary.


    Apparently an LLM reverse-engineered that meaning
    of some document only having the document as its basis.

    Monolingual dictionaries target people who already have a vocabulary in
    the given language and who understand how at least some of the
    vocabulary of that language relates to the empirical world. To someone
    who does not they really would be just "meaningless gibberish".

    André


    I was referring to a knowledge ontology
    (like a type hierarchy) where every single word
    it fully defined in formalized Natural language
    like Rudolf Carnap meaning postulates.

    It would contain the entire body of basic
    (thus indivisible) facts of general knowledge
    and a set of rules for any combination of
    semantic logical entailment from these basis
    facts.

    This ends up with the entire body of general
    knowledge that can be expressed in language.

    It might be a printed book 1000 miles tall.
    158,400,000,000,000,000 bytes.
    Only about 100 server racks.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.lang on Sat Dec 6 10:37:59 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 18.41:
    On 12/5/2025 2:48 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.59:
    On 12/3/2025 4:41 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 16.00:
    On 12/2/2025 2:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 1.12.2025 klo 19.15:
    On 12/1/2025 5:02 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 23.59:

    G := (F ⊬ G) // G says of itself that it is unprovable in F

    With a reasonable type system that is a type error:
    - the symbol ⊬ requires a sentence on the right side
    - the value of the ⊬ operation is a truth value
    - the symbol := requires the same type on both sides
    - thus G must be both a sentence and a truth value

    But G cannot be both. A sentence has a truth value but it isn't >>>>>>>> one.


    % This sentence cannot be proven in F
    ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).
    G = not(provable(F, G)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).
    false.

    It is an expression of language having no truth value
    because it is not a logic sentence.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(mathematical_logic)

    Yes, that is the exxential difference between the two G's.
    The expession F ⊬ G has a truth value because it is either
    true or false

    I propose that is a false assumption.

    If you want to propose anygthng like that you should
    (a) specify what is the assumption you want to propose as false
    (b) why should that assumption be considered false
    (c) what assumption would be true or at least less obviously false

    ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).
    G = not(provable(F, G)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).
    false.

    G is neither True nor False its resolution remains stuck
    in an infinite loop.

    BEGIN:(Clocksin & Mellish 2003:254)
    Finally, a note about how Prolog matching sometimes differs from the
    unification used in Resolution. Most Prolog systems will allow you to
    satisfy goals like:

    equal(X, X).
    ?- equal(foo(Y), Y).

    that is, they will allow you to match a term against an uninstantiated
    subterm of itself. In this example, foo(Y) is matched against Y,
    which appears within it. As a result, Y will stand for foo(Y), which is
    foo(foo(Y)) (because of what Y stands for), which is foo(foo(foo(Y))),
    and so on. So Y ends up standing for some kind of infinite structure.
    END:(Clocksin & Mellish 2003:254)

    As even (a) is not answered we must interprete the above to mean
    that you retracted your proposal.

    If you understood the above you would understand
    that I already answered (a) in 100% complete detail.

    Apparently "that" in your "I propopose that is a false assumption"
    refers to my "yes" response to your previous posting. But that
    response does not oresent any assumption.

    As everyone can see, you did not indentify the assumption.

    The assumption that is false is that G is not
    semantically incoherent.

    That assumption is not present in any plase that the word "that"
    could refer to.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.lang on Sat Dec 6 10:53:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 19.30:
    On 12/5/2025 2:57 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is
    a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all
    combinations of the truth values of its variables and propositions, >>>>>>> which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent.


    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term for
    "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take some effort >>>> to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing.

    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    A semantic tautology needn't define any words and usually doesn't.

    [semantic tautology] is my term thus giving me absolute
    authority over its meaning.

    No, you have not. The word "tautology" already has a meaning. Therefore
    you are restricted to subtypes of taotology.

    I stipulate that it derives
    all of its meaning from the base meaning of its constituents
    composed together.

    That is teh exac meaning when I used the expression above and below.

    It
    can be and usually is expressed with words that already have meanings.
    The definition of "semantic logical tautology" presented above doesn't
    require that it define any of its word.

    "I will be going to the grocery store in a few minutes"

    Aristotle has a long discussion on whther sentences about future
    events, like your example above, have a truth value. He concluded
    that they don't but modern ligicians often think they do. Either
    way, the above is not any kind of tautology.

    Is not typically construed as any king of logic sentence
    so I am expressly enlarging the scope of the  the term
    "tautology" and expressly removing the notion of any
    syntactic basis by stipulating a "semantic" basis.

    If you want to extend the scope you must define what "tautology"
    or at least "semantic tautology" means in the extended scope. But
    the generalized meaning must be equivalent to the conventional
    meaning when applied to sentences of ordinary logic.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(logic)

    That page says that tautology is a sentence that is true independently
    of its semantics.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sat Dec 6 11:01:02 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 19.21:
    On 12/5/2025 2:52 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 4.12.2025 klo 16.46:
    On 12/4/2025 3:50 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.09:
    On 12/3/2025 4:36 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely >>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is
    a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all >>>>>>>>>>> combinations of the truth values of its variables and
    propositions,
    which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent. >>>>>>>>>>>

    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term >>>>>>>>> for "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take some >>>>>>>> effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing.

    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean any expression of language >>>>>> that is proven true entirely on the basis of its meaning expressed >>>>>> in language.

    This includes expressions that do not define anything.

    It does not.

    For example, "A square is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the
    basis of the meanings of the words but does not define anything.

    That is deduced from the definitions of square and triangle.
    They are defined with mutually exclusive properties.

    Nice to see that you don't disagree with my observation that "A square
    is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the basis of the menanings of
    the words but does not define anything

    In other words you are trying to get away with
    saying the dictionaries are entirely comprised
    of meaningless gibberish, and not even a single
    word is defined.

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries that
    define words of one language in terms of words of another language.
    There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the meanings
    of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are circular
    and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. Dictionaries
    of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know
    the meanings of most of the words from other sources.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.lang on Sat Dec 6 06:24:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/6/2025 2:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 18.41:
    On 12/5/2025 2:48 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.59:
    On 12/3/2025 4:41 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 16.00:
    On 12/2/2025 2:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 1.12.2025 klo 19.15:
    On 12/1/2025 5:02 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 23.59:

    G := (F ⊬ G) // G says of itself that it is unprovable in F >>>>>>>>>
    With a reasonable type system that is a type error:
    - the symbol ⊬ requires a sentence on the right side
    - the value of the ⊬ operation is a truth value
    - the symbol := requires the same type on both sides
    - thus G must be both a sentence and a truth value

    But G cannot be both. A sentence has a truth value but it isn't >>>>>>>>> one.


    % This sentence cannot be proven in F
    ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).
    G = not(provable(F, G)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).
    false.

    It is an expression of language having no truth value
    because it is not a logic sentence.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(mathematical_logic)

    Yes, that is the exxential difference between the two G's.
    The expession F ⊬ G has a truth value because it is either
    true or false

    I propose that is a false assumption.

    If you want to propose anygthng like that you should
    (a) specify what is the assumption you want to propose as false
    (b) why should that assumption be considered false
    (c) what assumption would be true or at least less obviously false

    ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).
    G = not(provable(F, G)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).
    false.

    G is neither True nor False its resolution remains stuck
    in an infinite loop.

    BEGIN:(Clocksin & Mellish 2003:254)
    Finally, a note about how Prolog matching sometimes differs from the
    unification used in Resolution. Most Prolog systems will allow you to
    satisfy goals like:

    equal(X, X).
    ?- equal(foo(Y), Y).

    that is, they will allow you to match a term against an uninstantiated >>>> subterm of itself. In this example, foo(Y) is matched against Y,
    which appears within it. As a result, Y will stand for foo(Y), which is >>>> foo(foo(Y)) (because of what Y stands for), which is foo(foo(foo(Y))), >>>> and so on. So Y ends up standing for some kind of infinite structure.
    END:(Clocksin & Mellish 2003:254)

    As even (a) is not answered we must interprete the above to mean
    that you retracted your proposal.

    If you understood the above you would understand
    that I already answered (a) in 100% complete detail.

    Apparently "that" in your "I propopose that is a false assumption"
    refers to my "yes" response to your previous posting. But that
    response does not oresent any assumption.

    As everyone can see, you did not indentify the assumption.

    The assumption that is false is that G is not
    semantically incoherent.

    That assumption is not present in any plase that the word "that"
    could refer to.


    I explained all of the details of how G is
    semantically incoherent and you understood none of it.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.lang on Sat Dec 6 06:33:07 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/6/2025 2:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 19.30:
    On 12/5/2025 2:57 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is
    a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all
    combinations of the truth values of its variables and propositions, >>>>>>>> which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent.


    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term for
    "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take some effort >>>>> to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing.

    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    A semantic tautology needn't define any words and usually doesn't.

    [semantic tautology] is my term thus giving me absolute
    authority over its meaning.

    No, you have not. The word "tautology" already has a meaning. Therefore
    you are restricted to subtypes of taotology.

    I stipulate that it derives
    all of its meaning from the base meaning of its constituents
    composed together.

    That is teh exac meaning when I used the expression above and below.


    No one ever understands that my mathematical formal
    system includes the entire body of human general
    knowledge encoded in formalized English.

    It
    can be and usually is expressed with words that already have meanings.
    The definition of "semantic logical tautology" presented above doesn't
    require that it define any of its word.

    "I will be going to the grocery store in a few minutes"

    Aristotle has a long discussion on whther sentences about future
    events, like your example above, have a truth value. He concluded
    that they don't but modern ligicians often think they do. Either
    way, the above is not any kind of tautology.


    No matter what anyone says it is a fact that that is my intention.

    Is not typically construed as any king of logic sentence
    so I am expressly enlarging the scope of the  the term
    "tautology" and expressly removing the notion of any
    syntactic basis by stipulating a "semantic" basis.

    If you want to extend the scope you must define what "tautology"
    or at least "semantic tautology" means in the extended scope. But
    the generalized meaning must be equivalent to the conventional
    meaning when applied to sentences of ordinary logic.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(logic)

    That page says that tautology is a sentence that is true independently
    of its semantics.


    A semantic tautology is a self-evident truth expressed
    in language.

    In epistemology (theory of knowledge), a self-evident
    proposition is a proposition that is known to be true
    by understanding its meaning without proof https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-evidence
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sat Dec 6 06:40:21 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/6/2025 3:01 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 19.21:
    On 12/5/2025 2:52 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 4.12.2025 klo 16.46:
    On 12/4/2025 3:50 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.09:
    On 12/3/2025 4:36 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely >>>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is >>>>>>>>>>>>> a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all >>>>>>>>>>>> combinations of the truth values of its variables and >>>>>>>>>>>> propositions,
    which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent. >>>>>>>>>>>>

    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term >>>>>>>>>> for "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take some >>>>>>>>> effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing. >>>>>>>
    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean any expression of language >>>>>>> that is proven true entirely on the basis of its meaning expressed >>>>>>> in language.

    This includes expressions that do not define anything.

    It does not.

    For example, "A square is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the
    basis of the meanings of the words but does not define anything.

    That is deduced from the definitions of square and triangle.
    They are defined with mutually exclusive properties.

    Nice to see that you don't disagree with my observation that "A square
    is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the basis of the menanings of
    the words but does not define anything

    In other words you are trying to get away with
    saying the dictionaries are entirely comprised
    of meaningless gibberish, and not even a single
    word is defined.

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries that
    define words of one language in terms of words of another language.
    There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the meanings
    of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are circular
    and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. Dictionaries
    of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know
    the meanings of most of the words from other sources.


    You like Quine could not tell the difference between
    an acyclic directed graph and one with cycles.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Dogmas_of_Empiricism#Analyticity_and_circularity


    Rudolf Carnap Meaning Postulates addresses Quine
    The predicate Bachelor(x) is stipulated to mean
    ~Married(x) where the predicate Married(x) is
    defined in terms of billions of other things
    such as all of the details of Human(x).

    Here it is in Olcott's Minimal Type Theory
    ∀x (Bachelor(x) := ~Married(x) ∧ Male(x) ∧ Adult(x))
    Bachelor(x) {is defined as} ~Married(x) ∧ Male(x) ∧ Adult(x)

    Minimal Type Theory Syntax
    https://philarchive.org/archive/PETMTT-4v2
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sat Dec 6 22:16:43 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/6/25 4:01 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 19.21:
    On 12/5/2025 2:52 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 4.12.2025 klo 16.46:
    On 12/4/2025 3:50 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.09:
    On 12/3/2025 4:36 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely >>>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is >>>>>>>>>>>>> a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all >>>>>>>>>>>> combinations of the truth values of its variables and >>>>>>>>>>>> propositions,
    which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent. >>>>>>>>>>>>

    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term >>>>>>>>>> for "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take some >>>>>>>>> effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing. >>>>>>>
    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean any expression of language >>>>>>> that is proven true entirely on the basis of its meaning expressed >>>>>>> in language.

    This includes expressions that do not define anything.

    It does not.

    For example, "A square is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the
    basis of the meanings of the words but does not define anything.

    That is deduced from the definitions of square and triangle.
    They are defined with mutually exclusive properties.

    Nice to see that you don't disagree with my observation that "A square
    is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the basis of the menanings of
    the words but does not define anything

    In other words you are trying to get away with
    saying the dictionaries are entirely comprised
    of meaningless gibberish, and not even a single
    word is defined.

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries that
    define words of one language in terms of words of another language.
    There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the meanings
    of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are circular
    and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. Dictionaries
    of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know
    the meanings of most of the words from other sources.


    This is where Peter just falls apart, as he doesn't understand how
    formal langagues work.

    In a formal language, there is a set of primative terms that just mean themselves, and that meaning of all other terms are defined by the relationships to those primative terms.

    Natural Languages have core meanings that are just established by
    tradition, and are not finitely discreet, but many are actually
    spectrums based on context. Words like "Big" don't have fixed defined meanings.

    Dictionaries for Natural Languages try to approximate these bounds of relationships, but are never precise, and as you point out, will have ciruclarity, especially for core concepts that tend to need many words
    to try to define them.
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  • From polcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sat Dec 6 21:50:55 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/6/2025 9:16 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 4:01 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 19.21:
    On 12/5/2025 2:52 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 4.12.2025 klo 16.46:
    On 12/4/2025 3:50 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.09:
    On 12/3/2025 4:36 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any expression of language that is proven true entirely >>>>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is >>>>>>>>>>>>>> a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all >>>>>>>>>>>>> combinations of the truth values of its variables and >>>>>>>>>>>>> propositions,
    which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent. >>>>>>>>>>>>>

    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely >>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term >>>>>>>>>>> for "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take >>>>>>>>>> some effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing. >>>>>>>>
    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean any expression of language >>>>>>>> that is proven true entirely on the basis of its meaning expressed >>>>>>>> in language.

    This includes expressions that do not define anything.

    It does not.

    For example, "A square is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the >>>>>> basis of the meanings of the words but does not define anything.

    That is deduced from the definitions of square and triangle.
    They are defined with mutually exclusive properties.

    Nice to see that you don't disagree with my observation that "A square >>>> is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the basis of the menanings of >>>> the words but does not define anything

    In other words you are trying to get away with
    saying the dictionaries are entirely comprised
    of meaningless gibberish, and not even a single
    word is defined.

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries that
    define words of one language in terms of words of another language.
    There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the meanings
    of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are circular
    and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. Dictionaries
    of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know
    the meanings of most of the words from other sources.


    This is where Peter just falls apart, as he doesn't understand how
    formal langagues work.


    No. It is that you don't understand how
    Montague Grammar or Knowledge Ontologies work.
    Thankfully LLM systems know all about these things.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From Python@python@cccp.invalid to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sun Dec 7 05:32:08 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    Le 07/12/2025 à 04:50, polcott a écrit :
    On 12/6/2025 9:16 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 4:01 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 19.21:
    On 12/5/2025 2:52 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 4.12.2025 klo 16.46:
    On 12/4/2025 3:50 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.09:
    On 12/3/2025 4:36 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any expression of language that is proven true entirely >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all >>>>>>>>>>>>>> combinations of the truth values of its variables and >>>>>>>>>>>>>> propositions,
    which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely >>>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term >>>>>>>>>>>> for "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take >>>>>>>>>>> some effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing. >>>>>>>>>
    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean any expression of language >>>>>>>>> that is proven true entirely on the basis of its meaning expressed >>>>>>>>> in language.

    This includes expressions that do not define anything.

    It does not.

    For example, "A square is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the >>>>>>> basis of the meanings of the words but does not define anything.

    That is deduced from the definitions of square and triangle.
    They are defined with mutually exclusive properties.

    Nice to see that you don't disagree with my observation that "A square >>>>> is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the basis of the menanings of >>>>> the words but does not define anything

    In other words you are trying to get away with
    saying the dictionaries are entirely comprised
    of meaningless gibberish, and not even a single
    word is defined.

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries that
    define words of one language in terms of words of another language.
    There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the meanings
    of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are circular
    and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. Dictionaries
    of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know
    the meanings of most of the words from other sources.


    This is where Peter just falls apart, as he doesn't understand how
    formal langagues work.


    No. It is that you don't understand how
    Montague Grammar or Knowledge Ontologies work.
    Thankfully LLM systems know all about these things.

    Sure. They even know about spoons eating dogs:

    In the realm of Silverwood, enchanted spoons woke up one morning
    with a strange craving: they wanted to eat dogs' *worries*.
    Not the dogs themselves—just the glowing little anxieties
    floating above every canine like tiny lanterns.

    The spoons marched across the land, clinking like metal crickets.
    Dogs barked in confusion. Humans panicked. Spoons vibrated
    with excitement.

    But when they reached Brindle, the oldest shepherd dog,
    his worries were so wise and deep that the spoons swallowed them
    and instantly became thoughtful, sleepy, and kind.

    "Enough eating," declared the Chief Spoon.
    "From now on, we walk the dogs."

    And so Silverwood became the only kingdom where spoons
    could be seen taking dogs for evening strolls.

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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.lang on Sun Dec 7 12:39:32 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    olcott kirjoitti 6.12.2025 klo 14.24:
    On 12/6/2025 2:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 18.41:
    On 12/5/2025 2:48 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.59:
    On 12/3/2025 4:41 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 16.00:
    On 12/2/2025 2:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 1.12.2025 klo 19.15:
    On 12/1/2025 5:02 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 23.59:

    G := (F ⊬ G) // G says of itself that it is unprovable in F >>>>>>>>>>
    With a reasonable type system that is a type error:
    - the symbol ⊬ requires a sentence on the right side
    - the value of the ⊬ operation is a truth value
    - the symbol := requires the same type on both sides
    - thus G must be both a sentence and a truth value

    But G cannot be both. A sentence has a truth value but it >>>>>>>>>> isn't one.


    % This sentence cannot be proven in F
    ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).
    G = not(provable(F, G)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).
    false.

    It is an expression of language having no truth value
    because it is not a logic sentence.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(mathematical_logic)

    Yes, that is the exxential difference between the two G's.
    The expession F ⊬ G has a truth value because it is either
    true or false

    I propose that is a false assumption.

    If you want to propose anygthng like that you should
    (a) specify what is the assumption you want to propose as false
    (b) why should that assumption be considered false
    (c) what assumption would be true or at least less obviously false

    ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).
    G = not(provable(F, G)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).
    false.

    G is neither True nor False its resolution remains stuck
    in an infinite loop.

    BEGIN:(Clocksin & Mellish 2003:254)
    Finally, a note about how Prolog matching sometimes differs from the >>>>> unification used in Resolution. Most Prolog systems will allow you to >>>>> satisfy goals like:

    equal(X, X).
    ?- equal(foo(Y), Y).

    that is, they will allow you to match a term against an uninstantiated >>>>> subterm of itself. In this example, foo(Y) is matched against Y,
    which appears within it. As a result, Y will stand for foo(Y),
    which is
    foo(foo(Y)) (because of what Y stands for), which is foo(foo(foo(Y))), >>>>> and so on. So Y ends up standing for some kind of infinite structure. >>>>> END:(Clocksin & Mellish 2003:254)

    As even (a) is not answered we must interprete the above to mean
    that you retracted your proposal.

    If you understood the above you would understand
    that I already answered (a) in 100% complete detail.

    Apparently "that" in your "I propopose that is a false assumption"
    refers to my "yes" response to your previous posting. But that
    response does not oresent any assumption.

    As everyone can see, you did not indentify the assumption.

    The assumption that is false is that G is not
    semantically incoherent.

    That assumption is not present in any plase that the word "that"
    could refer to.

    I explained all of the details of how G is
    semantically incoherent and you understood none of it.


    The question (a) is still unanswered, apparently because the answer
    would reveal that your claim the equestion is about is false.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.lang on Sun Dec 7 12:42:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    olcott kirjoitti 6.12.2025 klo 14.33:
    On 12/6/2025 2:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 19.30:
    On 12/5/2025 2:57 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is
    a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all
    combinations of the truth values of its variables and
    propositions,
    which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent. >>>>>>>>>

    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term for >>>>>>> "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take some
    effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing.

    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    A semantic tautology needn't define any words and usually doesn't.

    [semantic tautology] is my term thus giving me absolute
    authority over its meaning.

    No, you have not. The word "tautology" already has a meaning. Therefore
    you are restricted to subtypes of taotology.

    I stipulate that it derives
    all of its meaning from the base meaning of its constituents
    composed together.

    That is teh exac meaning when I used the expression above and below.

    No one ever understands that my mathematical formal
    system includes the entire body of human general
    knowledge encoded in formalized English.

    Maybe because it is well understood that no formal system that can
    be presented includes the entire body of human general knowledge.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sun Dec 7 12:47:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    olcott kirjoitti 6.12.2025 klo 14.40:
    On 12/6/2025 3:01 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 19.21:
    On 12/5/2025 2:52 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 4.12.2025 klo 16.46:
    On 12/4/2025 3:50 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.09:
    On 12/3/2025 4:36 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any expression of language that is proven true entirely >>>>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is >>>>>>>>>>>>>> a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all >>>>>>>>>>>>> combinations of the truth values of its variables and >>>>>>>>>>>>> propositions,
    which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent. >>>>>>>>>>>>>

    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely >>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term >>>>>>>>>>> for "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take >>>>>>>>>> some effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing. >>>>>>>>
    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean any expression of language >>>>>>>> that is proven true entirely on the basis of its meaning expressed >>>>>>>> in language.

    This includes expressions that do not define anything.

    It does not.

    For example, "A square is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the >>>>>> basis of the meanings of the words but does not define anything.

    That is deduced from the definitions of square and triangle.
    They are defined with mutually exclusive properties.

    Nice to see that you don't disagree with my observation that "A square >>>> is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the basis of the menanings of >>>> the words but does not define anything

    In other words you are trying to get away with
    saying the dictionaries are entirely comprised
    of meaningless gibberish, and not even a single
    word is defined.

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries that
    define words of one language in terms of words of another language.
    There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the meanings
    of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are circular
    and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. Dictionaries
    of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know
    the meanings of most of the words from other sources.

    You like Quine could not tell the difference between
    an acyclic directed graph and one with cycles.

    It is a sin to lie about other people.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sun Dec 7 07:32:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/6/25 10:50 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/6/2025 9:16 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 4:01 AM, Mikko wrote:

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries that
    define words of one language in terms of words of another language.
    There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the meanings
    of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are circular
    and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. Dictionaries
    of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know
    the meanings of most of the words from other sources.


    This is where Peter just falls apart, as he doesn't understand how
    formal langagues work.


    No. It is that you don't understand how
    Montague Grammar or Knowledge Ontologies work.
    Thankfully LLM systems know all about these things.


    No, it is you who doesn't know what he is saying and shows he is just a
    liar.

    You claimed to have perminately "plonked" me so you would no longer see
    what I write, but apparently that is a lie.

    I will issue you a challenge here, and failure to reply will be an
    admission that you know you are just a stupid liar.

    Show how the Montegue Grammer can unambigously represent the meaning of
    the following sentence:

    She showed she was a big girl.

    That is a classic sentence showing the problem with trying to use
    "Natural Language" in a formal manner.

    For the other idea you bring up, show the COMPLETE set of UUIDs (with
    meaning) that you could attack to "big" to make its meaning precise, and
    which one applies to this sentence.

    The problem is you don't understand what exactly a "Formal Language" is,
    and how they establish meaning. Just like you can't distinguish between
    Truth and Knowledge.

    You are just a classic example of the Dunning-Kruger effect, you know
    that approximate meaning of a few terms, and guessed at the meaning of a
    lot of others, and you think you are smarter than everyone else, when
    all you are doing is proving how stupid you are.

    My guess is you are going to continue your pattern of ignoring the hard question where answering wll show how little you know, and thus prove to everyone watch how stupid you actually are.

    It seems your world doesn't actually HAVE semantics, as to you, all
    words are flexible in meaning and can be arbitrarily redefined, so your
    system that tries to base itself on meaning, has actually removed that
    base from the system.
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sun Dec 7 07:37:24 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/7/2025 6:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 10:50 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/6/2025 9:16 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 4:01 AM, Mikko wrote:

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries that
    define words of one language in terms of words of another language.
    There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the meanings
    of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are circular
    and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. Dictionaries
    of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know
    the meanings of most of the words from other sources.


    This is where Peter just falls apart, as he doesn't understand how
    formal langagues work.


    No. It is that you don't understand how
    Montague Grammar or Knowledge Ontologies work.
    Thankfully LLM systems know all about these things.


    No, it is you who doesn't know what he is saying and shows he is just a liar.


    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott<br><br>

    My 28 year goal has been to make <br>
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.<br><br>

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Sun Dec 7 08:59:06 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/7/2025 4:39 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 6.12.2025 klo 14.24:
    On 12/6/2025 2:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 18.41:
    On 12/5/2025 2:48 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.59:
    On 12/3/2025 4:41 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 16.00:
    On 12/2/2025 2:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 1.12.2025 klo 19.15:
    On 12/1/2025 5:02 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 23.59:

    G := (F ⊬ G) // G says of itself that it is unprovable in F >>>>>>>>>>>
    With a reasonable type system that is a type error:
    - the symbol ⊬ requires a sentence on the right side
    - the value of the ⊬ operation is a truth value
    - the symbol := requires the same type on both sides
    - thus G must be both a sentence and a truth value

    But G cannot be both. A sentence has a truth value but it >>>>>>>>>>> isn't one.


    % This sentence cannot be proven in F
    ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).
    G = not(provable(F, G)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).
    false.

    It is an expression of language having no truth value
    because it is not a logic sentence.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(mathematical_logic) >>>>>>>>>
    Yes, that is the exxential difference between the two G's.
    The expession F ⊬ G has a truth value because it is either >>>>>>>>> true or false

    I propose that is a false assumption.

    If you want to propose anygthng like that you should
    (a) specify what is the assumption you want to propose as false
    (b) why should that assumption be considered false
    (c) what assumption would be true or at least less obviously false >>>>>
    ?- G = not(provable(F, G)).
    G = not(provable(F, G)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(G, not(provable(F, G))).
    false.

    G is neither True nor False its resolution remains stuck
    in an infinite loop.

    BEGIN:(Clocksin & Mellish 2003:254)
    Finally, a note about how Prolog matching sometimes differs from the >>>>>> unification used in Resolution. Most Prolog systems will allow you to >>>>>> satisfy goals like:

    equal(X, X).
    ?- equal(foo(Y), Y).

    that is, they will allow you to match a term against an
    uninstantiated
    subterm of itself. In this example, foo(Y) is matched against Y,
    which appears within it. As a result, Y will stand for foo(Y),
    which is
    foo(foo(Y)) (because of what Y stands for), which is
    foo(foo(foo(Y))),
    and so on. So Y ends up standing for some kind of infinite structure. >>>>>> END:(Clocksin & Mellish 2003:254)

    As even (a) is not answered we must interprete the above to mean
    that you retracted your proposal.

    If you understood the above you would understand
    that I already answered (a) in 100% complete detail.

    Apparently "that" in your "I propopose that is a false assumption"
    refers to my "yes" response to your previous posting. But that
    response does not oresent any assumption.

    As everyone can see, you did not indentify the assumption.

    The assumption that is false is that G is not
    semantically incoherent.

    That assumption is not present in any plase that the word "that"
    could refer to.

    I explained all of the details of how G is
    semantically incoherent and you understood none of it.


    The question (a) is still unanswered, apparently because the answer
    would reveal that your claim the equestion is about is false.


    (a) specify what is the assumption you want to propose as false
    That Gödel 1931 Incompleteness exists as anything
    besides a misconception.

    I thought that when I proved that it is a misconception
    that you would be able to infer the incorrect assumption
    on the basis of this proof. Also if you could not infer
    this then you lack the prerequisites to understand what
    I am saying.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott<br><br>

    My 28 year goal has been to make <br>
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.<br><br>

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Sun Dec 7 09:03:31 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/7/2025 4:42 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 6.12.2025 klo 14.33:
    On 12/6/2025 2:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 19.30:
    On 12/5/2025 2:57 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is
    a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all >>>>>>>>>> combinations of the truth values of its variables and
    propositions,
    which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent. >>>>>>>>>>

    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely
    on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term for >>>>>>>> "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take some >>>>>>> effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing.

    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    A semantic tautology needn't define any words and usually doesn't.

    [semantic tautology] is my term thus giving me absolute
    authority over its meaning.

    No, you have not. The word "tautology" already has a meaning. Therefore
    you are restricted to subtypes of taotology.

    I stipulate that it derives
    all of its meaning from the base meaning of its constituents
    composed together.

    That is teh exac meaning when I used the expression above and below.

    No one ever understands that my mathematical formal
    system includes the entire body of human general
    knowledge encoded in formalized English.

    Maybe because it is well understood that no formal system that can
    be presented includes the entire body of human general knowledge.


    A false assumption is not at all the same thing as
    comprehension. People memorize all of the steps of
    a proof and construe that the fact that a correct
    refutation has not been presented in a long time
    as proof that the proof is correct.

    I knew that credibility is a fake measure of truth
    all the way back when I was 16.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott<br><br>

    My 28 year goal has been to make <br>
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.<br><br>

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sun Dec 7 09:16:22 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/7/2025 4:47 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 6.12.2025 klo 14.40:
    On 12/6/2025 3:01 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 19.21:
    On 12/5/2025 2:52 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 4.12.2025 klo 16.46:
    On 12/4/2025 3:50 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.09:
    On 12/3/2025 4:36 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any expression of language that is proven true entirely >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all >>>>>>>>>>>>>> combinations of the truth values of its variables and >>>>>>>>>>>>>> propositions,
    which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology.
    I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely >>>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term >>>>>>>>>>>> for "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take >>>>>>>>>>> some effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing. >>>>>>>>>
    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean any expression of
    language
    that is proven true entirely on the basis of its meaning expressed >>>>>>>>> in language.

    This includes expressions that do not define anything.

    It does not.

    For example, "A square is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the >>>>>>> basis of the meanings of the words but does not define anything.

    That is deduced from the definitions of square and triangle.
    They are defined with mutually exclusive properties.

    Nice to see that you don't disagree with my observation that "A square >>>>> is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the basis of the menanings of >>>>> the words but does not define anything

    In other words you are trying to get away with
    saying the dictionaries are entirely comprised
    of meaningless gibberish, and not even a single
    word is defined.

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries that
    define words of one language in terms of words of another language.
    There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the meanings
    of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are circular
    and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. Dictionaries
    of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know
    the meanings of most of the words from other sources.

    You like Quine could not tell the difference between
    an acyclic directed graph and one with cycles.

    It is a sin to lie about other people.


    My above statement was woefully insufficiently
    precise thus probably untrue. I retract it now.

    In the case of Bachelor(x) versus ~Married(x) most
    people in the world mindlessly agree with Quine
    that their relationship is circular.

    Rudolf Carnap immediately proved otherwise and not
    even one person could understand otherwise the
    received view would not agree with Quine.

    https://liarparadox.org/Meaning_Postulates_Rudolf_Carnap_1952.pdf

    Carnap was not clear enough. I correct this.

    Bachelor(x) is a stipulated relation defined
    in terms of: ~Married(x) ∧ Adult(x) ∧ Male(x)
    It acquires all of its meaning from those terms
    as a multiple inheritance relation in an acyclic
    graph of types.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott<br><br>

    My 28 year goal has been to make <br>
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.<br><br>

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
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  • From Mike Terry@news.dead.person.stones@darjeeling.plus.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sun Dec 7 15:49:54 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 07/12/2025 05:32, Python wrote:
    Le 07/12/2025 à 04:50, polcott a écrit :
    On 12/6/2025 9:16 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 4:01 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 19.21:
    On 12/5/2025 2:52 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 4.12.2025 klo 16.46:
    On 12/4/2025 3:50 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.09:
    On 12/3/2025 4:36 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any expression of language that is proven true entirely >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> combinations of the truth values of its variables and propositions,
    which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/represent. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely >>>>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of its meaning expressed in language.

    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another term for "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take some effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say nothing. >>>>>>>>>>
    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean any expression of language >>>>>>>>>> that is proven true entirely on the basis of its meaning expressed >>>>>>>>>> in language.

    This includes expressions that do not define anything.

    It does not.

    For example, "A square is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the >>>>>>>> basis of the meanings of the words but does not define anything. >>>>>>
    That is deduced from the definitions of square and triangle.
    They are defined with mutually exclusive properties.

    Nice to see that you don't disagree with my observation that "A square >>>>>> is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the basis of the menanings of >>>>>> the words but does not define anything

    In other words you are trying to get away with
    saying the dictionaries are entirely comprised
    of meaningless gibberish, and not even a single
    word is defined.

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries that
    define words of one language in terms of words of another language.
    There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the meanings
    of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are circular
    and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. Dictionaries
    of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know
    the meanings of most of the words from other sources.


    This is where Peter just falls apart, as he doesn't understand how formal langagues work.


    No. It is that you don't understand how
    Montague Grammar or Knowledge Ontologies work.
    Thankfully LLM systems know all about these things.

    Sure. They even know about spoons eating dogs:

    In the realm of Silverwood, enchanted spoons woke up one morning
    with a strange craving: they wanted to eat dogs' *worries*.
    Not the dogs themselves—just the glowing little anxieties
    floating above every canine like tiny lanterns.

    The spoons marched across the land, clinking like metal crickets.
    Dogs barked in confusion. Humans panicked. Spoons vibrated
    with excitement.

    But when they reached Brindle, the oldest shepherd dog,
    his worries were so wise and deep that the spoons swallowed them
    and instantly became thoughtful, sleepy, and kind.

    "Enough eating," declared the Chief Spoon.
    "From now on, we walk the dogs."

    And so Silverwood became the only kingdom where spoons
    could be seen taking dogs for evening strolls.


    That makes sense - the spoons would be especially well suited to cleaning up when their companions
    poop, as all civilised nations require!

    Mike.




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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sun Dec 7 11:38:42 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/7/2025 9:49 AM, Mike Terry wrote:
    On 07/12/2025 05:32, Python wrote:
    Le 07/12/2025 à 04:50, polcott a écrit :
    On 12/6/2025 9:16 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 4:01 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 19.21:
    On 12/5/2025 2:52 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 4.12.2025 klo 16.46:
    On 12/4/2025 3:50 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.09:
    On 12/3/2025 4:36 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 17.26:
    On 12/2/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
    dbush kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 20.19:
    On 11/29/2025 1:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 11:53 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-29, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any expression of language that is proven true entirely >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of its meaning expressed in language is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a semantic tautology.

    A tautology is an expression of logic which is true for all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> combinations of the truth values of its variables and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> propositions,
    which is, of course, regardless of what they mean/ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> represent.


    I did not say tautology. I said semantic tautology. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I am defining a new thing under the Sun.

    *Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean*
    Any expression of language that is proven true entirely >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on the basis of its meaning expressed in language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    So in other words, "semantic tautology" is just another >>>>>>>>>>>>>> term for "definition".

    A definition gives a new word for something.

    A semantic tautology is a verbose expression that may take >>>>>>>>>>>>> some effort
    to understand but once understood is onderstood to say >>>>>>>>>>>>> nothing.

    A semantic tautology might be considered the
    complete definition of a a word by providing
    the complete definition of every word in this
    definition recursively all the way down until
    every one of these words is completely defined.

    Semantic tautology is stipulated to mean any expression of >>>>>>>>>>> language
    that is proven true entirely on the basis of its meaning >>>>>>>>>>> expressed
    in language.

    This includes expressions that do not define anything.

    It does not.

    For example, "A square is not a triangle" is seen to be true on >>>>>>>>> the
    basis of the meanings of the words but does not define anything. >>>>>>>
    That is deduced from the definitions of square and triangle.
    They are defined with mutually exclusive properties.

    Nice to see that you don't disagree with my observation that "A >>>>>>> square
    is not a triangle" is seen to be true on the basis of the
    menanings of
    the words but does not define anything

    In other words you are trying to get away with
    saying the dictionaries are entirely comprised
    of meaningless gibberish, and not even a single
    word is defined.

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries that
    define words of one language in terms of words of another language.
    There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the meanings >>>>> of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are circular
    and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. Dictionaries
    of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know
    the meanings of most of the words from other sources.


    This is where Peter just falls apart, as he doesn't understand how
    formal langagues work.


    No. It is that you don't understand how
    Montague Grammar or Knowledge Ontologies work.
    Thankfully LLM systems know all about these things.

    Sure. They even know about spoons eating dogs:

    In the realm of Silverwood, enchanted spoons woke up one morning
    with a strange craving: they wanted to eat dogs' *worries*.
    Not the dogs themselves—just the glowing little anxieties
    floating above every canine like tiny lanterns.

    The spoons marched across the land, clinking like metal crickets.
    Dogs barked in confusion. Humans panicked. Spoons vibrated
    with excitement.

    But when they reached Brindle, the oldest shepherd dog,
    his worries were so wise and deep that the spoons swallowed them
    and instantly became thoughtful, sleepy, and kind.

    "Enough eating," declared the Chief Spoon.
    "From now on, we walk the dogs."

    And so Silverwood became the only kingdom where spoons
    could be seen taking dogs for evening strolls.


    That makes sense - the spoons would be especially well suited to
    cleaning up when their companions poop, as all civilised nations require!

    Mike.


    I am sure happy that LLM systems have conclusively
    proved that their assessment of my work is correct
    on the basis that they can show all of the details
    of how my new ideas are semantically entailed by
    accepted definitions in the various fields.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott<br><br>

    My 28 year goal has been to make <br>
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.<br><br>

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sun Dec 7 17:55:47 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/7/25 8:37 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 6:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 10:50 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/6/2025 9:16 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 4:01 AM, Mikko wrote:

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries that
    define words of one language in terms of words of another language.
    There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the meanings >>>>> of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are circular
    and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. Dictionaries
    of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know
    the meanings of most of the words from other sources.


    This is where Peter just falls apart, as he doesn't understand how
    formal langagues work.


    No. It is that you don't understand how
    Montague Grammar or Knowledge Ontologies work.
    Thankfully LLM systems know all about these things.


    No, it is you who doesn't know what he is saying and shows he is just
    a liar.


    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.


    You have ADMITED that you retain the right to change the meaning of word.

    DENY THAT IF YOU WANT.

    If you can change the meaning of words, then semantics are worthless, as meaning is broken,.

    Sorry, but you are just showing that you don't understand what you are
    talking about.

    I will note aas proof: a part you snipped said:

    I will issue you a challenge here, and failure to reply will be an admission that you know you are just a stupid liar.

    Show how the Montegue Grammer can unambigously represent the meaning
    of the following sentence:

    She showed she was a big girl.


    And since you failed to reply to that challenge, you just admitted that
    you don't know how to do what you claimed.

    Thus, I HAVE shown with reasoning that you can't handle your claim.
    Note, those sentences show that your claim isn't valid, as those
    sentences show.

    If you want to refute me, show how your "method" handles those.

    Your problem is your "logic" is based on just assuming that you can do something, and that just makes an ASS our of U.
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  • From polcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sun Dec 7 17:15:19 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/7/2025 4:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/7/25 8:37 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 6:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 10:50 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/6/2025 9:16 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 4:01 AM, Mikko wrote:

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries that >>>>>> define words of one language in terms of words of another language. >>>>>> There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the meanings >>>>>> of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are circular >>>>>> and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. Dictionaries >>>>>> of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know
    the meanings of most of the words from other sources.


    This is where Peter just falls apart, as he doesn't understand how
    formal langagues work.


    No. It is that you don't understand how
    Montague Grammar or Knowledge Ontologies work.
    Thankfully LLM systems know all about these things.


    No, it is you who doesn't know what he is saying and shows he is just
    a liar.


    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.


    You have ADMITED that you retain the right to change the meaning of word.

    DENY THAT IF YOU WANT.

    If you can change the meaning of words, then semantics are worthless, as meaning is broken,.

    Sorry, but you are just showing that you don't understand what you are talking about.

    I will note aas proof: a part you snipped said:

    I will issue you a challenge here, and failure to reply will be an admission that you know you are just a stupid liar.

    Show how the Montegue Grammer can unambigously represent the meaning
    of the following sentence:

    She showed she was a big girl.


    When you begin a reply with anything besides
    reasoning I will always ignore the rest.

    My system (like the Cyc project) has a unique
    GUID for each unique sense meaning of every word.

    I must first know your intended sense meanings.
    showed: seems to mean demonstrated

    big girl: seems to mean something like
    average maturity for a 10 year old girl

    In any case none of these details matter.
    All that matters is that it is feasible
    to encode the body of general knowledge
    using Montague Grammar in a Knowledge ontology.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 02:04:33 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 07/12/2025 15:16, olcott wrote:

    Bachelor(x) is a stipulated relation defined
    in terms of: ~Married(x) ∧ Adult(x) ∧ Male(x)
    It acquires all of its meaning from those terms
    as a multiple inheritance relation in an acyclic
    graph of types.

    It's funny that it used to be such a new idea, when today it's so uncontroversial and ordinary within the specialism.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2025 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

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  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 02:14:58 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 07/12/2025 13:37, olcott wrote:

    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.


    false. I maintain that you do not know syllogism.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2025 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sun Dec 7 21:50:40 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/7/25 6:15 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 4:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/7/25 8:37 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 6:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 10:50 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/6/2025 9:16 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 4:01 AM, Mikko wrote:

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries that >>>>>>> define words of one language in terms of words of another language. >>>>>>> There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the meanings >>>>>>> of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are circular >>>>>>> and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. Dictionaries >>>>>>> of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know >>>>>>> the meanings of most of the words from other sources.


    This is where Peter just falls apart, as he doesn't understand how >>>>>> formal langagues work.


    No. It is that you don't understand how
    Montague Grammar or Knowledge Ontologies work.
    Thankfully LLM systems know all about these things.


    No, it is you who doesn't know what he is saying and shows he is
    just a liar.


    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.


    You have ADMITED that you retain the right to change the meaning of word.

    DENY THAT IF YOU WANT.

    If you can change the meaning of words, then semantics are worthless,
    as meaning is broken,.

    Sorry, but you are just showing that you don't understand what you are
    talking about.

    I will note aas proof: a part you snipped said:

    I will issue you a challenge here, and failure to reply will be an
    admission that you know you are just a stupid liar.

    Show how the Montegue Grammer can unambigously represent the
    meaning of the following sentence:

    She showed she was a big girl.


    When you begin a reply with anything besides
    reasoning I will always ignore the rest.

    So, what did I say that WASN'T "Reasoning"


    My system (like the Cyc project) has a unique
    GUID for each unique sense meaning of every word.

    Can't, because there are not finitely enumerable.

    As I asked, show the full set of UUIDs for the word "big"


    I must first know your intended sense meanings.
    showed: seems to mean demonstrated

    That isn't how it works.


    big girl: seems to mean something like
    average maturity for a 10 year old girl

    Thats ONE meaning. That is your problem, you don't understand the
    complexity of Natural Language.

    Note, I never said anything about "10 year old", so that is a figment of
    your imagination. This is your typical error, you ASSUME a meaning, and
    thus make an ASS out of U, and I refuse to be included.


    In any case none of these details matter.
    All that matters is that it is feasible
    to encode the body of general knowledge
    using Montague Grammar in a Knowledge ontology.


    Right, because in your system, actual means don't matter because you
    reserve the right to change it.

    Thus, there can not be a truth by meaning, as there is no actual meaning.

    You are just showing that you don't have an actual system, but the idea
    of a system that you hope and assume does what you want, even though you
    have been shown it doesn't.

    So many of your messages are based you claiming someone is wrong or
    stupid because the said something, and then you show that you don't
    actually understand what they said, as your summary doesn't match what
    they actually did say.

    This just shows how bad your own idea of logic is.

    Sorry, you have still demonstarted that you don't know what you are
    talking about, proven by the fact you couldn't answer the question, but
    just showed you don't understand the problem.
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sun Dec 7 21:21:07 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/7/2025 8:04 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/12/2025 15:16, olcott wrote:

    Bachelor(x) is a stipulated relation defined
    in terms of: ~Married(x) ∧ Adult(x) ∧ Male(x)
    It acquires all of its meaning from those terms
    as a multiple inheritance relation in an acyclic
    graph of types.

    It's funny that it used to be such a new idea, when today it's so uncontroversial and ordinary within the specialism.


    The received view based on Quine

    Two Dogmas of Empiricism1a
    Willard Van Orman Quine https://www.theologie.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:ffffffff-fbd6-1538-0000-000070cf64bc/Quine51.pdf

    It that the relationship between Bachelor(x)
    and ~Married(x) is circular thus unsound.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott<br><br>

    My 28 year goal has been to make <br>
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.<br><br>

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sun Dec 7 21:21:53 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/7/2025 8:14 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/12/2025 13:37, olcott wrote:

    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.


    false. I maintain that you do not know syllogism.


    That is absurd.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott<br><br>

    My 28 year goal has been to make <br>
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.<br><br>

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Sun Dec 7 21:26:43 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/7/2025 8:50 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/7/25 6:15 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 4:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/7/25 8:37 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 6:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 10:50 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/6/2025 9:16 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 4:01 AM, Mikko wrote:

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries that >>>>>>>> define words of one language in terms of words of another language. >>>>>>>> There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the
    meanings
    of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are circular >>>>>>>> and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. Dictionaries >>>>>>>> of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know >>>>>>>> the meanings of most of the words from other sources.


    This is where Peter just falls apart, as he doesn't understand
    how formal langagues work.


    No. It is that you don't understand how
    Montague Grammar or Knowledge Ontologies work.
    Thankfully LLM systems know all about these things.


    No, it is you who doesn't know what he is saying and shows he is
    just a liar.


    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.


    You have ADMITED that you retain the right to change the meaning of
    word.

    DENY THAT IF YOU WANT.

    If you can change the meaning of words, then semantics are worthless,
    as meaning is broken,.

    Sorry, but you are just showing that you don't understand what you
    are talking about.

    I will note aas proof: a part you snipped said:

    I will issue you a challenge here, and failure to reply will be
    an admission that you know you are just a stupid liar.

    Show how the Montegue Grammer can unambigously represent the
    meaning of the following sentence:

    She showed she was a big girl.


    When you begin a reply with anything besides
    reasoning I will always ignore the rest.

    So, what did I say that WASN'T "Reasoning"


    My system (like the Cyc project) has a unique
    GUID for each unique sense meaning of every word.

    Can't, because there are not finitely enumerable.

    As I asked, show the full set of UUIDs for the word "big"


    I must first know your intended sense meanings.
    showed: seems to mean demonstrated

    That isn't how it works.


    big girl: seems to mean something like
    average maturity for a 10 year old girl

    Thats ONE meaning. That is your problem, you don't understand the
    complexity of Natural Language.


    I understand how to eliminate ambiguity by
    mathematically formalizing the body of
    general knowledge as relations between GUID's.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott<br><br>

    My 28 year goal has been to make <br>
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.<br><br>

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
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  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.lang on Mon Dec 8 06:12:56 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 07/12/2025 10:42, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 6.12.2025 klo 14.33:
    No one ever understands that my mathematical formal
    system includes the entire body of human general
    knowledge encoded in formalized English.

    Liar.

    Maybe because it is well understood that no formal system that can
    be presented includes the entire body of human general knowledge.


    Unless it also includes everything that is not of human general
    knowledge. Infinite monkeys and so forth.

    Olcott already said it was a semantic tautology, after all. Which is a
    fancy way of saying that it's a system for universal semantic analysis
    so it contains all possible meaning associations including those that
    are of the body of human general knowledge.

    Once he said it was a semantic tautology it was not possible to be
    surprising.

    The difficult bit is as for a sculptor; to carve away those things that
    are /not/ wanted.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2025 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

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  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 07:07:44 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 08/12/2025 03:21, olcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 8:14 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/12/2025 13:37, olcott wrote:

    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.


    false. I maintain that you do not know syllogism.


    That is absurd.
    /That/ is absurd.
    |
    |
    V

    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2025 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

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  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 09:55:24 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 08/12/2025 03:21, olcott wrote:

    The received view based on Quine

    Two Dogmas of Empiricism1a
    Willard Van Orman Quine https://www.theologie.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:ffffffff-fbd6-1538-0000-000070cf64bc/Quine51.pdf

    It that the relationship between Bachelor(x)
    and ~Married(x) is circular thus unsound.


    It's circular properties are soundly circular, you can reason about
    them. We rely on it to define terms in philosophy where we reference
    thought with language instead of referencing shared experiences (which
    is too nondeterministic itself). When two sets of terms have the same relationships we can then choose either to identify them or not. It
    relies on intuitionistic reasoning a lot of the time, acknowledging that
    your system is not closed.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2025 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 07:40:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/7/25 10:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 8:50 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/7/25 6:15 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 4:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/7/25 8:37 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 6:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 10:50 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/6/2025 9:16 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 4:01 AM, Mikko wrote:

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries that >>>>>>>>> define words of one language in terms of words of another
    language.
    There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the >>>>>>>>> meanings
    of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are circular >>>>>>>>> and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. Dictionaries >>>>>>>>> of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know >>>>>>>>> the meanings of most of the words from other sources.


    This is where Peter just falls apart, as he doesn't understand >>>>>>>> how formal langagues work.


    No. It is that you don't understand how
    Montague Grammar or Knowledge Ontologies work.
    Thankfully LLM systems know all about these things.


    No, it is you who doesn't know what he is saying and shows he is
    just a liar.


    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.


    You have ADMITED that you retain the right to change the meaning of
    word.

    DENY THAT IF YOU WANT.

    If you can change the meaning of words, then semantics are
    worthless, as meaning is broken,.

    Sorry, but you are just showing that you don't understand what you
    are talking about.

    I will note aas proof: a part you snipped said:

    I will issue you a challenge here, and failure to reply will be
    an admission that you know you are just a stupid liar.

    Show how the Montegue Grammer can unambigously represent the
    meaning of the following sentence:

    She showed she was a big girl.


    When you begin a reply with anything besides
    reasoning I will always ignore the rest.

    So, what did I say that WASN'T "Reasoning"


    My system (like the Cyc project) has a unique
    GUID for each unique sense meaning of every word.

    Can't, because there are not finitely enumerable.

    As I asked, show the full set of UUIDs for the word "big"


    I must first know your intended sense meanings.
    showed: seems to mean demonstrated

    That isn't how it works.


    big girl: seems to mean something like
    average maturity for a 10 year old girl

    Thats ONE meaning. That is your problem, you don't understand the
    complexity of Natural Language.


    I understand how to eliminate ambiguity by
    mathematically formalizing the body of
    general knowledge as relations between GUID's.


    No you don't, as you have shown by not being able to handle the
    statement I gave you.

    You have an understanding of an understanding, but that understanding
    has inherent holes because you logic is just too primitive.

    You are just continuing to show that you don't REALLY understand what
    you are talking about, as you can't reduce your ideas to a concrete base
    here.

    You CLAIM to have a system, but it is actualy just an outline of a
    system that turns out to be infeasible because you just ignore the
    problematic issues by looking at only the simplest problems, and
    assuming you can move to harder problems, when you can't.
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.lang on Mon Dec 8 07:59:02 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/8/2025 12:12 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/12/2025 10:42, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 6.12.2025 klo 14.33:
    No one ever understands that my mathematical formal
    system includes the entire body of human general
    knowledge encoded in formalized English.

    Liar.

    Maybe because it is well understood that no formal system that can
    be presented includes the entire body of human general knowledge.


    Unless it also includes everything that is not of human general
    knowledge. Infinite monkeys and so forth.

    Olcott already said it was a semantic tautology, after all. Which is a
    fancy way of saying that it's a system for universal semantic analysis
    so it contains all possible meaning associations including those that
    are of the body of human general knowledge.

    Once he said it was a semantic tautology it was not possible to be surprising.

    The difficult bit is as for a sculptor; to carve away those things that
    are /not/ wanted.


    It only must be a finite set because I intend for is
    to be stored and computable.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott<br><br>

    My 28 year goal has been to make <br>
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.<br><br>

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.lang on Mon Dec 8 10:18:23 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/8/2025 12:12 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/12/2025 10:42, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 6.12.2025 klo 14.33:
    No one ever understands that my mathematical formal
    system includes the entire body of human general
    knowledge encoded in formalized English.

    Liar.

    To be more precisely accurate I should have said I
    have never seen any indication that anyone besides
    me understands that any mathematical formalism could
    contain the entire body of human general knowledge
    encoded as formalized English.


    Maybe because it is well understood that no formal system that can
    be presented includes the entire body of human general knowledge.


    Unless it also includes everything that is not of human general
    knowledge. Infinite monkeys and so forth.


    That {cats are animals} is general knowledge that
    Missy is a black cat with white spots owned
    by a specific person at a specific location
    is not general knowledge.

    It seems that your objection that is not very
    clearly worded is that you do not understand
    whether or not and how a precise line of demarcation
    can be drawn between general knowledge and
    knowledge of a specific situation.

    Olcott already said it was a semantic tautology, after all. Which is a
    fancy way of saying that it's a system for universal semantic analysis
    so it contains all possible meaning associations including those that
    are of the body of human general knowledge.


    Yes.

    Once he said it was a semantic tautology it was not possible to be surprising.


    It seems to me that most people here try to avoid
    understanding the meaning of the terms that I have
    used and only care about rebuttal. That may have
    changed recently when all of the trolls decided
    to drop out in December.

    The difficult bit is as for a sculptor; to carve away those things that
    are /not/ wanted.


    Merely a precise line of demarcation for
    elements of the set of general knowledge
    that can be expressed in language and those
    that are not in this set.

    Not Expressed in language: The actual first
    hand sense stimulus from the sense organs.

    General knowledge. (this is a first guess)
    All the details of knowledge that is shared
    across all of the various occupational categories
    combined with common sense that has been encoded
    in the Cyc project.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott<br><br>

    My 28 year goal has been to make <br>
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.<br><br>

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 10:41:40 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/8/2025 1:07 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 08/12/2025 03:21, olcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 8:14 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/12/2025 13:37, olcott wrote:

    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.


    false. I maintain that you do not know syllogism.


    That is absurd.
    /That/ is absurd.
    |
    |
    V

    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.


    Does a guy with a PhD in math need to prove that he
    knows first grade arithmetic?

    This is what I have known of the syllogism for many years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism#Basic_structure
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott<br><br>

    My 28 year goal has been to make <br>
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.<br><br>

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 12:43:53 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/8/2025 3:55 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 08/12/2025 03:21, olcott wrote:

    The received view based on Quine

    Two Dogmas of Empiricism1a
    Willard Van Orman Quine
    https://www.theologie.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:ffffffff-fbd6-1538-0000-000070cf64bc/Quine51.pdf

    It that the relationship between Bachelor(x)
    and ~Married(x) is circular thus unsound.


    It's circular properties are soundly circular,

    Not when the RHS is simply assigned to the LHD
    as the complete source of its total meaning.

    In Olcott's Minimal Type Theory
    ∀x ∈ Human (Bachelor(x) ↔ (Male(x) ∧ Adult(x) ∧ ~Married(x)))

    sentence_7 token="FOR_ALL"
    | sentence_7 token="ELEMENT_OF"
    | | sentence_7 token="IDENTIFIER" value="x"
    | | sentence_7 token="IDENTIFIER" value="Human"
    | sentence_11 token="IFF"
    | | atomic_sentence_1 token="IDENTIFIER" value="Bachelor"
    | | | term_2 token="IDENTIFIER" value="x"
    | | sentence_12 token="AND"
    | | | sentence_12 token="AND"
    | | | | atomic_sentence_1 token="IDENTIFIER" value="Male"
    | | | | | term_2 token="IDENTIFIER" value="x"
    | | | | atomic_sentence_1 token="IDENTIFIER" value="Adult"
    | | | | | term_2 token="IDENTIFIER" value="x"
    | | | sentence_2 token="NOT"
    | | | | atomic_sentence_1 token="IDENTIFIER" value="Married"
    | | | | | term_2 token="IDENTIFIER" value="x"


    you can reason about
    them. We rely on it to define terms in philosophy where we reference
    thought with language instead of referencing shared experiences (which
    is too nondeterministic itself). When two sets of terms have the same relationships we can then choose either to identify them or not. It
    relies on intuitionistic reasoning a lot of the time, acknowledging that
    your system is not closed.


    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott<br><br>

    My 28 year goal has been to make <br>
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.<br><br>

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 12:47:20 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/8/2025 6:40 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/7/25 10:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 8:50 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/7/25 6:15 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 4:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/7/25 8:37 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 6:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 10:50 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/6/2025 9:16 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 4:01 AM, Mikko wrote:

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries >>>>>>>>>> that
    define words of one language in terms of words of another >>>>>>>>>> language.
    There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the >>>>>>>>>> meanings
    of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are >>>>>>>>>> circular
    and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact.
    Dictionaries
    of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already know >>>>>>>>>> the meanings of most of the words from other sources.


    This is where Peter just falls apart, as he doesn't understand >>>>>>>>> how formal langagues work.


    No. It is that you don't understand how
    Montague Grammar or Knowledge Ontologies work.
    Thankfully LLM systems know all about these things.


    No, it is you who doesn't know what he is saying and shows he is >>>>>>> just a liar.


    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.


    You have ADMITED that you retain the right to change the meaning of >>>>> word.

    DENY THAT IF YOU WANT.

    If you can change the meaning of words, then semantics are
    worthless, as meaning is broken,.

    Sorry, but you are just showing that you don't understand what you
    are talking about.

    I will note aas proof: a part you snipped said:

    I will issue you a challenge here, and failure to reply will be >>>>> an admission that you know you are just a stupid liar.

    Show how the Montegue Grammer can unambigously represent the
    meaning of the following sentence:

    She showed she was a big girl.


    When you begin a reply with anything besides
    reasoning I will always ignore the rest.

    So, what did I say that WASN'T "Reasoning"


    My system (like the Cyc project) has a unique
    GUID for each unique sense meaning of every word.

    Can't, because there are not finitely enumerable.

    As I asked, show the full set of UUIDs for the word "big"


    I must first know your intended sense meanings.
    showed: seems to mean demonstrated

    That isn't how it works.


    big girl: seems to mean something like
    average maturity for a 10 year old girl

    Thats ONE meaning. That is your problem, you don't understand the
    complexity of Natural Language.


    I understand how to eliminate ambiguity by
    mathematically formalizing the body of
    general knowledge as relations between GUID's.


    No you don't, as you have shown by not being able to handle the
    statement I gave you.


    It was your error of insufficiently specifying
    which of many sense meanings that you intended.

    It was not inherently ambiguity it is lack of
    sufficient specification.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott<br><br>

    My 28 year goal has been to make <br>
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.<br><br>

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
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  • From Python@python@cccp.invalid to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 19:39:16 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    Le 08/12/2025 à 17:41, olcott a écrit :
    On 12/8/2025 1:07 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 08/12/2025 03:21, olcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 8:14 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/12/2025 13:37, olcott wrote:

    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.


    false. I maintain that you do not know syllogism.


    That is absurd.
    /That/ is absurd.
    |
    |
    V

    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.


    Does a guy with a PhD in math need to prove that he
    knows first grade arithmetic?

    This is what I have known of the syllogism for many years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism#Basic_structure

    <http://nemoweb.net/jntp?x8k3kaIUn7VhwV8V2Qf_ON68roE@jntp/Data.Media:1>
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 19:18:16 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/8/25 1:47 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 6:40 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/7/25 10:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 8:50 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/7/25 6:15 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 4:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/7/25 8:37 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 6:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 10:50 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/6/2025 9:16 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 4:01 AM, Mikko wrote:

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is dictionaries >>>>>>>>>>> that
    define words of one language in terms of words of another >>>>>>>>>>> language.
    There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the >>>>>>>>>>> meanings
    of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are >>>>>>>>>>> circular
    and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact.
    Dictionaries
    of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already >>>>>>>>>>> know
    the meanings of most of the words from other sources.


    This is where Peter just falls apart, as he doesn't understand >>>>>>>>>> how formal langagues work.


    No. It is that you don't understand how
    Montague Grammar or Knowledge Ontologies work.
    Thankfully LLM systems know all about these things.


    No, it is you who doesn't know what he is saying and shows he is >>>>>>>> just a liar.


    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.


    You have ADMITED that you retain the right to change the meaning
    of word.

    DENY THAT IF YOU WANT.

    If you can change the meaning of words, then semantics are
    worthless, as meaning is broken,.

    Sorry, but you are just showing that you don't understand what you >>>>>> are talking about.

    I will note aas proof: a part you snipped said:

    I will issue you a challenge here, and failure to reply will >>>>>> be an admission that you know you are just a stupid liar.

    Show how the Montegue Grammer can unambigously represent the >>>>>> meaning of the following sentence:

    She showed she was a big girl.


    When you begin a reply with anything besides
    reasoning I will always ignore the rest.

    So, what did I say that WASN'T "Reasoning"


    My system (like the Cyc project) has a unique
    GUID for each unique sense meaning of every word.

    Can't, because there are not finitely enumerable.

    As I asked, show the full set of UUIDs for the word "big"


    I must first know your intended sense meanings.
    showed: seems to mean demonstrated

    That isn't how it works.


    big girl: seems to mean something like
    average maturity for a 10 year old girl

    Thats ONE meaning. That is your problem, you don't understand the
    complexity of Natural Language.


    I understand how to eliminate ambiguity by
    mathematically formalizing the body of
    general knowledge as relations between GUID's.


    No you don't, as you have shown by not being able to handle the
    statement I gave you.


    It was your error of insufficiently specifying
    which of many sense meanings that you intended.

    It was not inherently ambiguity it is lack of
    sufficient specification.


    What did I insufficeintly specify?

    I asked you to provide the total set of UUIDs with meaning that define
    all the meaning of the word "big".

    Not the meaning in that sentence.

    If the set of UUIDs for a word can't be specified, then the system can't
    be used to formalize the language, because it clearly isn't finiite (and
    thus would exhaust any system of UUIDs).

    Then I asked how the grammer would determine the meaning of the
    sentence. Note, Montegue Grammer is what you claim allows you to
    determine the meaning of any statement. I gave you the statement, why
    can't Montegue Grammer give you its meaning?

    Is it that Montegue Grammer doesn't do what you claim?

    Sorry, you are just showing that you have an insufficient understanding
    of what you are talking about.
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  • From polcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 19:00:09 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/8/2025 6:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 1:47 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 6:40 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/7/25 10:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 8:50 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/7/25 6:15 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 4:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/7/25 8:37 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 6:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 10:50 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/6/2025 9:16 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/6/25 4:01 AM, Mikko wrote:

    There are two kinds of dictionaries. One kind is
    dictionaries that
    define words of one language in terms of words of another >>>>>>>>>>>> language.
    There is no circularity there. The other kind describes the >>>>>>>>>>>> meanings
    of wirds in terms of words of the same language. They are >>>>>>>>>>>> circular
    and the descriptions are often incomplete or inexact. >>>>>>>>>>>> Dictionaries
    of this kind are indeed useless to readers who don't already >>>>>>>>>>>> know
    the meanings of most of the words from other sources.


    This is where Peter just falls apart, as he doesn't
    understand how formal langagues work.


    No. It is that you don't understand how
    Montague Grammar or Knowledge Ontologies work.
    Thankfully LLM systems know all about these things.


    No, it is you who doesn't know what he is saying and shows he >>>>>>>>> is just a liar.


    If that was true you could show that with reasoning.
    By not showing the reasoning you show that is not true.


    You have ADMITED that you retain the right to change the meaning >>>>>>> of word.

    DENY THAT IF YOU WANT.

    If you can change the meaning of words, then semantics are
    worthless, as meaning is broken,.

    Sorry, but you are just showing that you don't understand what
    you are talking about.

    I will note aas proof: a part you snipped said:

    I will issue you a challenge here, and failure to reply will >>>>>>> be an admission that you know you are just a stupid liar.

    Show how the Montegue Grammer can unambigously represent the >>>>>>> meaning of the following sentence:

    She showed she was a big girl.


    When you begin a reply with anything besides
    reasoning I will always ignore the rest.

    So, what did I say that WASN'T "Reasoning"


    My system (like the Cyc project) has a unique
    GUID for each unique sense meaning of every word.

    Can't, because there are not finitely enumerable.

    As I asked, show the full set of UUIDs for the word "big"


    I must first know your intended sense meanings.
    showed: seems to mean demonstrated

    That isn't how it works.


    big girl: seems to mean something like
    average maturity for a 10 year old girl

    Thats ONE meaning. That is your problem, you don't understand the
    complexity of Natural Language.


    I understand how to eliminate ambiguity by
    mathematically formalizing the body of
    general knowledge as relations between GUID's.


    No you don't, as you have shown by not being able to handle the
    statement I gave you.


    It was your error of insufficiently specifying
    which of many sense meanings that you intended.

    It was not inherently ambiguity it is lack of
    sufficient specification.


    What did I insufficeintly specify?


    Troll
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 21:24:44 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/8/25 8:00 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 6:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:


    What did I insufficeintly specify?


    Troll



    In other words, you admit defeat.

    That has consistantly been your answer when someone shows you up, and demonstrates your failing.

    Sorry, you are just proving that you are nothing but a hypocritical pathological stupid liar that just doesn't know what he is talking
    about, and doesn't care about this stupidity.


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  • From polcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 20:34:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/8/2025 8:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 8:00 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 6:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:


    What did I insufficeintly specify?


    Troll



    In other words, you admit defeat.


    Not in the least little bit.
    The key difference with you as a troll compared to
    other trolls is that you do have a reasonably deep
    understanding of some of these things.

    The following may not be over your head if you cared
    to understand instead of being locked in rebuttal mode:

    Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping from
    their [finite string] inputs to an accept or reject
    state on the basis that this [finite string] input
    specifies or fails to specify a *particular* semantic
    or syntactic property.

    If Tristan did not understand it he would not have
    been able to correctly improve it.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 21:57:50 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/8/25 9:34 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 8:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 8:00 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 6:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:


    What did I insufficeintly specify?


    Troll



    In other words, you admit defeat.


    Not in the least little bit.

    Then why didn't you answer the question?

    The key difference with you as a troll compared to
    other trolls is that you do have a reasonably deep
    understanding of some of these things.

    So, you admit that I know what I am talking about, and that you just
    refuse to answer the question.

    The only logical reason, is because you can't, because you lied about
    what you can do. After all, why would you hide the proof that you are
    smarter than me?

    The answer, because you know you are out matched and are running aways
    scared and trying to throw up a smoke screen.


    The following may not be over your head if you cared
    to understand instead of being locked in rebuttal mode:

    Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping from
    their [finite string] inputs to an accept or reject
    state on the basis that this [finite string] input
    specifies or fails to specify a *particular* semantic
    or syntactic property.

    Right, but are only CORRECT if the answr they give matches the answer to
    the problem they are SUPPOSED to decide on.

    If the finite string given to the Halt Decider doesn't semantically
    specify the behavior of the program we are asking about when run, then
    you gave it the wrong string, or the decider just isn't powerful enough
    to do its job.

    The problem is you claim that it can not represent that behavior is
    isomorphic to claiming that Universal Turing Machies do not exist, as
    they demonstrate that it *IS* possible to completely encode the behavior
    of the machine semantically in a finite string.

    Your problem is you have been caught in the lie that you claim that the
    call to HHH(DD) in DD is actually a correct asking of the behavior of DD
    when run, but you also try to claim that it can't be.

    If HHH(DD) isn't asking that question, then your DD just isn't the
    program from the proof, because you HHH doesn't have the right semantics
    for its input, and thus just isn't a halt decider, and you are just a
    stupid liar.


    If Tristan did not understand it he would not have
    been able to correctly improve it.


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  • From polcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 21:16:55 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/8/2025 8:57 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 9:34 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 8:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 8:00 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 6:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:


    What did I insufficeintly specify?


    Troll



    In other words, you admit defeat.


    Not in the least little bit.

    Then why didn't you answer the question?

    The key difference with you as a troll compared to
    other trolls is that you do have a reasonably deep
    understanding of some of these things.

    So, you admit that I know what I am talking about, and that you just
    refuse to answer the question.

    The only logical reason, is because you can't, because you lied about
    what you can do. After all, why would you hide the proof that you are smarter than me?

    The answer, because you know you are out matched and are running aways scared and trying to throw up a smoke screen.


    The following may not be over your head if you cared
    to understand instead of being locked in rebuttal mode:

    Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping from
    their [finite string] inputs to an accept or reject
    state on the basis that this [finite string] input
    specifies or fails to specify a *particular* semantic
    or syntactic property.

    Right, but are only CORRECT if the answr they give matches the answer to
    the problem they are SUPPOSED to decide on.


    I will give you a much simpler example.
    If a universal truth predicate is defined
    to return true when and expression is true
    and false when an expression is false then
    what does it correctly return for this:
    True("What time is it")
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 22:22:21 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/8/25 10:16 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 8:57 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 9:34 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 8:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 8:00 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 6:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:


    What did I insufficeintly specify?


    Troll



    In other words, you admit defeat.


    Not in the least little bit.

    Then why didn't you answer the question?

    The key difference with you as a troll compared to
    other trolls is that you do have a reasonably deep
    understanding of some of these things.

    So, you admit that I know what I am talking about, and that you just
    refuse to answer the question.

    The only logical reason, is because you can't, because you lied about
    what you can do. After all, why would you hide the proof that you are
    smarter than me?

    The answer, because you know you are out matched and are running aways
    scared and trying to throw up a smoke screen.


    The following may not be over your head if you cared
    to understand instead of being locked in rebuttal mode:

    Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping from
    their [finite string] inputs to an accept or reject
    state on the basis that this [finite string] input
    specifies or fails to specify a *particular* semantic
    or syntactic property.

    Right, but are only CORRECT if the answr they give matches the answer
    to the problem they are SUPPOSED to decide on.


    I will give you a much simpler example.
    If a universal truth predicate is defined
    to return true when and expression is true
    and false when an expression is false then
    what does it correctly return for this:
    True("What time is it")




    You have a problem with you definition,

    A Truth Predicate is defined to return True if the input statement is
    true, and false for anything else, either a false statement, or a
    statement without a truth value.

    Since, "What Time is it" doesn't have a truth value (as it is a
    question, not an asserting)

    True("What time is it") is False.

    Again, your problem is you don't know the meaning of the words, and try
    to redefine them to match your ignorancd.

    That makes you world just a lie.
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  • From polcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 21:50:55 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/8/2025 9:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 10:16 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 8:57 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 9:34 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 8:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 8:00 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 6:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:


    What did I insufficeintly specify?


    Troll



    In other words, you admit defeat.


    Not in the least little bit.

    Then why didn't you answer the question?

    The key difference with you as a troll compared to
    other trolls is that you do have a reasonably deep
    understanding of some of these things.

    So, you admit that I know what I am talking about, and that you just
    refuse to answer the question.

    The only logical reason, is because you can't, because you lied about
    what you can do. After all, why would you hide the proof that you are
    smarter than me?

    The answer, because you know you are out matched and are running
    aways scared and trying to throw up a smoke screen.


    The following may not be over your head if you cared
    to understand instead of being locked in rebuttal mode:

    Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping from
    their [finite string] inputs to an accept or reject
    state on the basis that this [finite string] input
    specifies or fails to specify a *particular* semantic
    or syntactic property.

    Right, but are only CORRECT if the answr they give matches the answer
    to the problem they are SUPPOSED to decide on.


    I will give you a much simpler example.
    If a universal truth predicate is defined
    to return true when and expression is true
    and false when an expression is false then
    what does it correctly return for this:
    True("What time is it")




    You have a problem with you definition,

    A Truth Predicate is defined to return True if the input statement is
    true, and false for anything else, either a false statement, or a
    statement without a truth value.


    That makes perfect sense to me, what is a
    halt decider defined this way?

    true if it is determined that it halts else false.

    Since, "What Time is it" doesn't have a truth value (as it is a
    question, not an asserting)

    True("What time is it") is False.

    Again, your problem is you don't know the meaning of the words, and try
    to redefine them to match your ignorancd.

    That makes you world just a lie.

    I examine the philosophical foundations of these things
    that everyone else simply takes as "given".
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 23:20:21 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/8/25 10:50 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 9:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 10:16 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 8:57 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 9:34 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 8:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 8:00 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 6:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:


    What did I insufficeintly specify?


    Troll



    In other words, you admit defeat.


    Not in the least little bit.

    Then why didn't you answer the question?

    The key difference with you as a troll compared to
    other trolls is that you do have a reasonably deep
    understanding of some of these things.

    So, you admit that I know what I am talking about, and that you just
    refuse to answer the question.

    The only logical reason, is because you can't, because you lied
    about what you can do. After all, why would you hide the proof that
    you are smarter than me?

    The answer, because you know you are out matched and are running
    aways scared and trying to throw up a smoke screen.


    The following may not be over your head if you cared
    to understand instead of being locked in rebuttal mode:

    Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping from
    their [finite string] inputs to an accept or reject
    state on the basis that this [finite string] input
    specifies or fails to specify a *particular* semantic
    or syntactic property.

    Right, but are only CORRECT if the answr they give matches the
    answer to the problem they are SUPPOSED to decide on.


    I will give you a much simpler example.
    If a universal truth predicate is defined
    to return true when and expression is true
    and false when an expression is false then
    what does it correctly return for this:
    True("What time is it")




    You have a problem with you definition,

    A Truth Predicate is defined to return True if the input statement is
    true, and false for anything else, either a false statement, or a
    statement without a truth value.


    That makes perfect sense to me, what is a
    halt decider defined this way?

    true if it is determined that it halts else false.

    No, not "DETERMINED", but *IF* it halts.

    Just like the True predicate isn't asking if we can prove the statement,
    just if it *is* true, and true can be different then proven. That truth
    can be based on an infinite sequence of inferences, as that *IS* how
    truth is defined.

    The program DD() you have defined does halt because your HHH you have
    defined returns 0 when HHH(DD) is called.

    The fact that HHH can't determine this doesn't change the correct
    answer, it just makes HHH wrong.

    Truth is not subjective, but objective.


    Since, "What Time is it" doesn't have a truth value (as it is a
    question, not an asserting)

    True("What time is it") is False.

    Again, your problem is you don't know the meaning of the words, and
    try to redefine them to match your ignorancd.

    That makes you world just a lie.

    I examine the philosophical foundations of these things
    that everyone else simply takes as "given".


    But don't understand what you are talking about.

    Since you fundamentally change the meaning of some of the words, nothing
    you "think up" is actually applicable.

    This come, in part, because you are just ignorant of many basic facts
    about how logic works.
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  • From polcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Mon Dec 8 22:30:22 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/8/2025 10:20 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 10:50 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 9:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 10:16 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 8:57 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 9:34 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 8:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 8:00 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 6:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:


    What did I insufficeintly specify?


    Troll



    In other words, you admit defeat.


    Not in the least little bit.

    Then why didn't you answer the question?

    The key difference with you as a troll compared to
    other trolls is that you do have a reasonably deep
    understanding of some of these things.

    So, you admit that I know what I am talking about, and that you
    just refuse to answer the question.

    The only logical reason, is because you can't, because you lied
    about what you can do. After all, why would you hide the proof that >>>>> you are smarter than me?

    The answer, because you know you are out matched and are running
    aways scared and trying to throw up a smoke screen.


    The following may not be over your head if you cared
    to understand instead of being locked in rebuttal mode:

    Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping from
    their [finite string] inputs to an accept or reject
    state on the basis that this [finite string] input
    specifies or fails to specify a *particular* semantic
    or syntactic property.

    Right, but are only CORRECT if the answr they give matches the
    answer to the problem they are SUPPOSED to decide on.


    I will give you a much simpler example.
    If a universal truth predicate is defined
    to return true when and expression is true
    and false when an expression is false then
    what does it correctly return for this:
    True("What time is it")




    You have a problem with you definition,

    A Truth Predicate is defined to return True if the input statement is
    true, and false for anything else, either a false statement, or a
    statement without a truth value.


    That makes perfect sense to me, what is a
    halt decider defined this way?

    true if it is determined that it halts else false.

    No, not "DETERMINED", but *IF* it halts.


    True(X) if X is determined to be True,
    false if false, gibberish or paradox.

    Just like the True predicate isn't asking if we can prove the statement, just if it *is* true,

    On what basis? (I spent 28 years on this).

    and true can be different then proven. That truth
    can be based on an infinite sequence of inferences, as that *IS* how
    truth is defined.

    The program DD() you have defined does halt because your HHH you have defined returns 0 when HHH(DD) is called.

    The fact that HHH can't determine this doesn't change the correct
    answer, it just makes HHH wrong.

    Truth is not subjective, but objective.


    Since, "What Time is it" doesn't have a truth value (as it is a
    question, not an asserting)

    True("What time is it") is False.

    Again, your problem is you don't know the meaning of the words, and
    try to redefine them to match your ignorancd.

    That makes you world just a lie.

    I examine the philosophical foundations of these things
    that everyone else simply takes as "given".


    But don't understand what you are talking about.


    Like I said everyone here thinks that
    examining philosophical foundations is nuts.

    These foundations are already established and
    been infallibly determined to be perfect.

    Since you fundamentally change the meaning of some of the words, nothing
    you "think up" is actually applicable.

    This come, in part, because you are just ignorant of many basic facts
    about how logic works.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Tue Dec 9 07:42:31 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/8/25 11:30 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 10:20 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 10:50 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 9:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 10:16 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 8:57 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 9:34 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 8:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 8:00 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 6:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:


    What did I insufficeintly specify?


    Troll



    In other words, you admit defeat.


    Not in the least little bit.

    Then why didn't you answer the question?

    The key difference with you as a troll compared to
    other trolls is that you do have a reasonably deep
    understanding of some of these things.

    So, you admit that I know what I am talking about, and that you
    just refuse to answer the question.

    The only logical reason, is because you can't, because you lied
    about what you can do. After all, why would you hide the proof
    that you are smarter than me?

    The answer, because you know you are out matched and are running
    aways scared and trying to throw up a smoke screen.


    The following may not be over your head if you cared
    to understand instead of being locked in rebuttal mode:

    Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping from
    their [finite string] inputs to an accept or reject
    state on the basis that this [finite string] input
    specifies or fails to specify a *particular* semantic
    or syntactic property.

    Right, but are only CORRECT if the answr they give matches the
    answer to the problem they are SUPPOSED to decide on.


    I will give you a much simpler example.
    If a universal truth predicate is defined
    to return true when and expression is true
    and false when an expression is false then
    what does it correctly return for this:
    True("What time is it")




    You have a problem with you definition,

    A Truth Predicate is defined to return True if the input statement
    is true, and false for anything else, either a false statement, or a
    statement without a truth value.


    That makes perfect sense to me, what is a
    halt decider defined this way?

    true if it is determined that it halts else false.

    No, not "DETERMINED", but *IF* it halts.


    True(X) if X is determined to be True,
    false if false, gibberish or paradox.

    Only in your LIES.

    That has been one of your core problems, you never bothered to learn the ACTUAL meaning of the terms, but just guessed based on what you


    Just like the True predicate isn't asking if we can prove the
    statement, just if it *is* true,

    On what basis? (I spent 28 years on this).

    The DEFINITION of it.

    Your problem is you WASTED 28 years by walking in ignorance. If you had bothered to actually learn the definitions, as opposed to incorrectly
    guess them based on your zero principle analysis you might have come up
    with something.'

    As it is, you just proved your ignorance.


    and true can be different then proven. That truth can be based on an
    infinite sequence of inferences, as that *IS* how truth is defined.

    The program DD() you have defined does halt because your HHH you have
    defined returns 0 when HHH(DD) is called.

    The fact that HHH can't determine this doesn't change the correct
    answer, it just makes HHH wrong.

    Truth is not subjective, but objective.


    Since, "What Time is it" doesn't have a truth value (as it is a
    question, not an asserting)

    True("What time is it") is False.

    Again, your problem is you don't know the meaning of the words, and
    try to redefine them to match your ignorancd.

    That makes you world just a lie.

    I examine the philosophical foundations of these things
    that everyone else simply takes as "given".


    But don't understand what you are talking about.


    Like I said everyone here thinks that
    examining philosophical foundations is nuts.

    To examine the philosphical foundations, you need to KNOW those
    foundations. Your problem is you don't understand the foundations of
    Formal Logic, one of which is that you can't change the rules of a
    system and stay in it,


    These foundations are already established and
    been infallibly determined to be perfect.

    Yes, but you don't know them, because you started with false
    assumptions, and then build an unsound system off of your lies.


    Since you fundamentally change the meaning of some of the words,
    nothing you "think up" is actually applicable.

    This come, in part, because you are just ignorant of many basic facts
    about how logic works.



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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Tue Dec 9 15:15:37 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/7/2025 4:39 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 6.12.2025 klo 14.24:
    On 12/6/2025 2:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 18.41:
    On 12/5/2025 2:48 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.59:
    On 12/3/2025 4:41 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 16.00:
    On 12/1/2025 5:02 AM, Mikko wrote:

    Yes, that is the exxential difference between the two G's. >>>>>>>>>> The expession F ⊬ G has a truth value because it is either >>>>>>>>>> true or false

    olcott kirjoitti 1.12.2025 klo 19.15:

    I propose that is a false assumption.

    On 12/2/2025 2:53 AM, Mikko wrote:

    If you want to propose anygthng like that you should
    (a) specify what is the assumption you want to propose as false >>>>>>>> (b) why should that assumption be considered false
    (c) what assumption would be true or at least less obviously false

    olcott kirjoitti 7.12.2025 klo 16.59:

    (a) specify what is the assumption you want to propose as false

    That Gödel 1931 Incompleteness exists as anything
    besides a misconception.

    That does not make sense. Quite obviously Gödel's incompleteness is not mentioned in the scope where that can refer.

    I thought that when I proved that it is a misconception
    that you would be able to infer the incorrect assumption
    on the basis of this proof. Also if you could not infer
    this then you lack the prerequisites to understand what
    I am saying.

    If you don't understand how pronouns refer you should not use them.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From polcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Tue Dec 9 10:05:23 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/9/2025 6:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 11:30 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 10:20 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 10:50 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 9:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 10:16 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 8:57 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 9:34 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 8:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 8:00 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 6:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:


    What did I insufficeintly specify?


    Troll



    In other words, you admit defeat.


    Not in the least little bit.

    Then why didn't you answer the question?

    The key difference with you as a troll compared to
    other trolls is that you do have a reasonably deep
    understanding of some of these things.

    So, you admit that I know what I am talking about, and that you >>>>>>> just refuse to answer the question.

    The only logical reason, is because you can't, because you lied >>>>>>> about what you can do. After all, why would you hide the proof
    that you are smarter than me?

    The answer, because you know you are out matched and are running >>>>>>> aways scared and trying to throw up a smoke screen.


    The following may not be over your head if you cared
    to understand instead of being locked in rebuttal mode:

    Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping from
    their [finite string] inputs to an accept or reject
    state on the basis that this [finite string] input
    specifies or fails to specify a *particular* semantic
    or syntactic property.

    Right, but are only CORRECT if the answr they give matches the
    answer to the problem they are SUPPOSED to decide on.


    I will give you a much simpler example.
    If a universal truth predicate is defined
    to return true when and expression is true
    and false when an expression is false then
    what does it correctly return for this:
    True("What time is it")




    You have a problem with you definition,

    A Truth Predicate is defined to return True if the input statement
    is true, and false for anything else, either a false statement, or
    a statement without a truth value.


    That makes perfect sense to me, what is a
    halt decider defined this way?

    true if it is determined that it halts else false.

    No, not "DETERMINED", but *IF* it halts.


    True(X) if X is determined to be True,
    false if false, gibberish or paradox.

    Only in your LIES.

    That has been one of your core problems, you never bothered to learn the ACTUAL meaning of the terms, but just guessed based on what you

    I did make sure to never look at the conventional
    received view of these things because it contains
    all kinds of nonsense. For one thing there are about
    nine different conventional received views.

    Not even one person here ever looked at the correct
    view that I reversed engineered. My work is a new
    idea that is inconsistent with what they memorized
    and they rejected it entirely on that basis making
    no attempt to understand what I am saying.

    Claude AI LLM acts like it has a PhD in everything
    so it can connect together ideas from five different
    fields.

    So far no one here has achieved even as much as a baby
    talk level of understanding of fully integrating
    semantics directly in the syntax such the model theory
    is not needed.

    LLM systems immediately fully understand this and prove
    that their understanding is correct by connecting all
    of these ideas together on the basis of standard definitions.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From polcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy on Tue Dec 9 10:22:53 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/9/2025 7:15 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 4:39 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 6.12.2025 klo 14.24:
    On 12/6/2025 2:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 18.41:
    On 12/5/2025 2:48 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.59:
    On 12/3/2025 4:41 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 16.00:
    On 12/1/2025 5:02 AM, Mikko wrote:

    Yes, that is the exxential difference between the two G's. >>>>>>>>>>> The expession F ⊬ G has a truth value because it is either >>>>>>>>>>> true or false

    olcott kirjoitti 1.12.2025 klo 19.15:

    I propose that is a false assumption.

    On 12/2/2025 2:53 AM, Mikko wrote:

    If you want to propose anygthng like that you should
    (a) specify what is the assumption you want to propose as false >>>>>>>>> (b) why should that assumption be considered false
    (c) what assumption would be true or at least less obviously false

    olcott kirjoitti 7.12.2025 klo 16.59:

    (a) specify what is the assumption you want to propose as false

    That Gödel 1931 Incompleteness exists as anything
    besides a misconception.

    That does not make sense. Quite obviously Gödel's incompleteness is not mentioned in the scope where that can refer.

    I thought that when I proved that it is a misconception
    that you would be able to infer the incorrect assumption
    on the basis of this proof. Also if you could not infer
    this then you lack the prerequisites to understand what
    I am saying.

    If you don't understand how pronouns refer you should not use them.


    The new category of thought is the complete body of
    expressions of language that comprise every detail
    of general knowledge that can be expressed in language.

    Its basis is a complete finite set of basic facts of
    general knowledge and every type of relation between
    these basic facts. This keeps the whole system finite.

    This enables "true on the basis of meaning expressed
    in language" to be always computable for any element
    in this body. ~True(Language L, Expression E) means
    not an element of this body.

    This reframes the philosophical analytic / synthetic
    distinction such that the line of demarcation becomes
    unequivocal.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From polcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Tue Dec 9 12:04:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/9/2025 7:15 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 4:39 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 6.12.2025 klo 14.24:
    On 12/6/2025 2:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 5.12.2025 klo 18.41:
    On 12/5/2025 2:48 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 3.12.2025 klo 17.59:
    On 12/3/2025 4:41 AM, Mikko wrote:
    olcott kirjoitti 2.12.2025 klo 16.00:
    On 12/1/2025 5:02 AM, Mikko wrote:

    Yes, that is the exxential difference between the two G's. >>>>>>>>>>> The expession F ⊬ G has a truth value because it is either >>>>>>>>>>> true or false

    olcott kirjoitti 1.12.2025 klo 19.15:

    I propose that is a false assumption.

    On 12/2/2025 2:53 AM, Mikko wrote:

    If you want to propose anygthng like that you should
    (a) specify what is the assumption you want to propose as false >>>>>>>>> (b) why should that assumption be considered false
    (c) what assumption would be true or at least less obviously false

    olcott kirjoitti 7.12.2025 klo 16.59:

    (a) specify what is the assumption you want to propose as false

    That Gödel 1931 Incompleteness exists as anything
    besides a misconception.

    That does not make sense. Quite obviously Gödel's incompleteness is not mentioned in the scope where that can refer.


    Actually I proved that every instance of pathological
    self-reference involves an incoherent decision problem
    instance. The only reason that you do not understand
    that this proof is correct is your own lack of
    sufficient understanding of unify_with_occurs_check().

    I thought that when I proved that it is a misconception
    that you would be able to infer the incorrect assumption
    on the basis of this proof. Also if you could not infer
    this then you lack the prerequisites to understand what
    I am saying.

    If you don't understand how pronouns refer you should not use them.

    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning" computable.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Tue Dec 9 23:02:55 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/9/25 11:05 AM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/9/2025 6:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 11:30 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 10:20 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 10:50 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 9:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 10:16 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 8:57 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 9:34 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 8:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 12/8/25 8:00 PM, polcott wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 6:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:


    What did I insufficeintly specify?


    Troll



    In other words, you admit defeat.


    Not in the least little bit.

    Then why didn't you answer the question?

    The key difference with you as a troll compared to
    other trolls is that you do have a reasonably deep
    understanding of some of these things.

    So, you admit that I know what I am talking about, and that you >>>>>>>> just refuse to answer the question.

    The only logical reason, is because you can't, because you lied >>>>>>>> about what you can do. After all, why would you hide the proof >>>>>>>> that you are smarter than me?

    The answer, because you know you are out matched and are running >>>>>>>> aways scared and trying to throw up a smoke screen.


    The following may not be over your head if you cared
    to understand instead of being locked in rebuttal mode:

    Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping from
    their [finite string] inputs to an accept or reject
    state on the basis that this [finite string] input
    specifies or fails to specify a *particular* semantic
    or syntactic property.

    Right, but are only CORRECT if the answr they give matches the >>>>>>>> answer to the problem they are SUPPOSED to decide on.


    I will give you a much simpler example.
    If a universal truth predicate is defined
    to return true when and expression is true
    and false when an expression is false then
    what does it correctly return for this:
    True("What time is it")




    You have a problem with you definition,

    A Truth Predicate is defined to return True if the input statement >>>>>> is true, and false for anything else, either a false statement, or >>>>>> a statement without a truth value.


    That makes perfect sense to me, what is a
    halt decider defined this way?

    true if it is determined that it halts else false.

    No, not "DETERMINED", but *IF* it halts.


    True(X) if X is determined to be True,
    false if false, gibberish or paradox.

    Only in your LIES.

    That has been one of your core problems, you never bothered to learn
    the ACTUAL meaning of the terms, but just guessed based on what you

    I did make sure to never look at the conventional
    received view of these things because it contains
    all kinds of nonsense. For one thing there are about
    nine different conventional received views.


    So you ADMIT that you don't know the meaning of the words you used.

    How can you claim to embrace "semantics". when you admit that you don't
    know what the terms you use mean.

    That just PROVES you don't understand the basis of Formal Logic.

    This also makes everything you have said a reckless-disregard for the
    truth, and thus classifiable as a LIE even if you beleive it.

    The "nonsense" you claim is just your own ignorance.

    Not even one person here ever looked at the correct
    view that I reversed engineered. My work is a new
    idea that is inconsistent with what they memorized
    and they rejected it entirely on that basis making
    no attempt to understand what I am saying.

    But your view isn't "correct" as it is based on lies about definitions,
    and ignorance of fundamentals.


    Claude AI LLM acts like it has a PhD in everything
    so it can connect together ideas from five different
    fields.

    But AI LLM are just well trained liars. Yes, it ACTS like it has a PhD,
    as it has been trained to decieve people to beleive it knows something.

    All you are doing is showing your are just so stupidly naive that you
    belive it.


    So far no one here has achieved even as much as a baby
    talk level of understanding of fully integrating
    semantics directly in the syntax such the model theory
    is not needed.

    The problem is you ideas are just so riddled with internal
    self-contradiction


    LLM systems immediately fully understand this and prove
    that their understanding is correct by connecting all
    of these ideas together on the basis of standard definitions.


    Nope, they just buffaloed you into believing them. Your prompt had a
    logical error that has been pointed out, and that error told them the
    answer you wanted, so they gave it to you.

    All you are doing is proving you have been had by the AI industry.
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