...and so on. I don't think it's just me.As a theoretical computer scientist, I can confirm that nothing in this paper shows anything about Turing's proof to be erroneous. Indeed, it is not a work of mathematics or theoretical computer science at all (due to lack of formality) and judt vaguely discusses some general points about objective and subjective specifications, nothing of which is relevant for the halting problem or the proof of its unsolvability. Also, notice that "This statement is not true" is not a statement that can even be formulated in first-order arithmetic or any standard logical system Turing or Church were concerned with. Indeed, Tarski's theorem on the undefinability of the truth predicate shows that statements of this type cannot even be formulated in these systems, so it is meaningless to discuss their formal validity or "truth" since they do not even exist formally. — Gutsfeld
..and so on. I don't think it's just me. — Banno
↪PL Olcott If you would show that a well-accepted and well-understood part of logic is in error, you will need a good deal of strong, formal argument to carry your case. — Banno
↪PL Olcott I think you have some interesting stuff here, but you haven't demonstrated an error on Gödel or Turing. — Banno
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