• PL Olcott
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    Then why bother with a machine/program? You have simply gone to the trouble of creating a data-base - in theory because there are significant problems im creating one for real.tim wood

    I am referring to the finite set of finite strings that encode the actual general knowledge true facts of the world. I refer to general knowledge because this is finite. That no one has written them all down in one place does not mean that they do not exist.

    The only reason that "cats are animals" is true is that it is stipulated to be true thus allocating semantic meaning to otherwise utterly meaningless finite strings. Language different than English does this same thing with their own set of finite strings.
  • ssu
    8.4k
    My True(L,x) predicate is defined to return true or false for every
    finite string x on the basis of the existence of a sequence of truth
    preserving operations that derive x from
    PL Olcott
    Assuming then it returns true for all true strings and false for all false ones, right?

    So are you going here for the solution for the Entscheidungsproblem? Seems something like that.

    Finite string expressions that are not truth-bearers are rejected
    as a type mismatch error for every formal system of bivalent logic.

    Truthbearer(English, "This sentence is not true") is false.
    Truthbearer(English, "This sentence is true") is false.
    Truthbearer(English, "a fish") is false.
    Truthbearer(English, "some fish are alive") is true.
    PL Olcott
    So with this assumption you think you can state that the Church-Turing thesis has no truth-bearing?
  • PL Olcott
    626
    Assuming then it returns true for all true strings and false for all false ones, right?ssu

    Yes and non truth-bearers are screened out.
    Truthbearer(L,x) ≡ (True(L,x) ∨ True(L,~x))
    False ≡ True(L,~x))

    So are you going here for the solution for the Entscheidungsproblem? Seems something like that.ssu

    Yes. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entscheidungsproblem

    ...14 Every epistemological antinomy can likewise be used for a similar undecidability
    proof... (Gödel 1931:43-44)

    Truthbearer(L,x) ≡ (True(L,x) ∨ True(L,~x))

    Epistemological antinomies no longer for the basis for any undecidability proof they are
    simply rejected as a type mismatch error for every formal system of bivalent logic.

    So with this assumption you think you can state that the Church-Turing thesis has no truth-bearing?ssu

    The only issue that I am correcting is the notion of decidability.
    The notion of computation remains the same.
  • tim wood
    9.2k
    The only issue that I am correcting is the notion of decidability.PL Olcott
    A great thing! But tell, how have you corrected it?
  • PL Olcott
    626
    The only issue that I am correcting is the notion of decidability.
    — PL Olcott
    A great thing! But tell, how have you corrected it?
    tim wood

    If there are no sequence of truth preserving operations from the verbal semantic meaning of expression x {true on the basis of its meaning} to x or ~x then the expression is rejected as not a truth bearer thus a type mismatch error for every system of bivalent logic. LP := ~True(L, LP) is the best known example of this.
  • tim wood
    9.2k
    And this is just no correction at all. Near as i can tell from both reading your posts and your listed citations, all you have done is invoke an idea of a list of propositions that you have decreed "true facts." And there being no undecidable propositions among them - being excluded by you - you declare undecidability corrected. Unless you can mix in some sense, this stands both as nonsense and nonsensical
  • PL Olcott
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    ↪PL Olcott And this is just no correction at all. Near as i can tell from both reading your posts and your listed citations, all you have done is invoke an idea of a list of propositions that you have decreed "true facts." And there being no undecidable propositions among them - being excluded by you - you declare undecidability corrected. Unless you can mix in some sense, this stands both as nonsense and nonsensicaltim wood

    When we have all of the truth facts of the world or even all the true facts about logic, math and computation then it is easy to see that epistemological antinomies and their negation cannot be derived from these true facts. LP := ~True(L, LP) then True(L, LP) is false and True(L, ~LP) is false.
  • tim wood
    9.2k
    then it is easy to see that epistemological antinomies and their negation cannot be derived from these true facts.PL Olcott
    Then what did Godel do and how did he do it? Or rather, inasmuch as he rigorously derives his undecidable proposition, on what basis do you claim it impossible? And now I insist on your using English unless you are using symbols to prove/demonstrate a point.
  • PL Olcott
    626
    Then what did Godel do and how did he do it? Or rather, inasmuch as he rigorously derives his undecidable proposition, on what basis do you claim it impossible? And now I insist on your using English unless you are using symbols to prove/demonstrate a point.tim wood

    It is much simpler to see what Tarski did, Gödel hid the missing inference steps
    behind Gödel numbers and diagonalization.

    This is Tarski's formalized Liar Paradox
    x ∉ True if and only if p
    where the symbol 'p' represents the whole sentence x
    https://liarparadox.org/Tarski_275_276.pdf

    This is stated more simply as LP := ~True(L ,LP)

    Tarski found out that ~True(L, LP) is true (in his meta theory) and
    True(L,LP) is not provable in his theory and this got him confused.

    This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true" is true because
    "This sentence is not true" is not true.

    https://liarparadox.org/Tarski_275_276.pdf
  • tim wood
    9.2k
    I quote this from your citation:
    "We shall show that the sentence x is actually undecidable
    and at the same time true. For this purpose we shall pass to a
    metatheory of higher order;... the sentence x given in the metatheory can automatically be
    carried over into the theory itself: the sentence x which is
    undecidable in the original theory becomes a decidable sentence
    in the enriched theory," italics added.

    Does it escape your notice that the theory, to be efficacious in the desired manner, has been enriched and has to be enriched? Or that the enriched thing - or any enriched thing - is not the same as the thing not enriched?

    So your claim of a "correction" is still empty - and makes no sense. Nor is there any suggestion in your citation that Tarski is confused.

    And none of this addresses any of my specific questions to you.
  • PL Olcott
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    Does it escape your notice that the theory, to be efficacious in the desired manner, has been enriched and has to be enriched? Or that the enriched thing - or any enriched thing - is not the same as the thing not enriched?tim wood

    There has never actually been any need for this enrichment, it has always been
    expressible in a single formal system with a single formal language as I elaborate below.


    x ∉ True if and only if p
    where the symbol 'p' represents the whole sentence x

    His intention was for formalize the actual Liar Paradox
    It would then be possible to reconstruct the antinomy of the liar in the
    metalanguage, by forming in the language itself a sentence x such that
    the sentence of the metalanguage which is correlated with x asserts that
    x is not a true sentence. https://liarparadox.org/Tarski_247_248.pdf

    The above is Is better stated as: p ↔ p ∉ True
    his self-reference is a little clumsy and the above is still not quite
    actual self-reference.

    It is standard convention to formalize self-reference incorrectly
    ϕ(x) there is a sentence ψ such that S ⊢ ψ ↔ ϕ⟨ψ⟩.
    *The sentence ψ is of course not self-referential in a strict sense*,
    but mathematically it behaves like one.
    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-reference/#ConSemPar
    That whole article was ONLY about self-reference

    x := y means x is defined to be another name for y
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols

    Thus Tarski's p is better stated as: p := p ∉ True
    even better as: p := ~True(Tarski-theory, p)
    p says that it is not true in Tarski's-theory.

    It took me 500 hours studying those four pages of Tarski to get to that point.
    You probably won't be able to get there by skimming those two pages.
  • ssu
    8.4k
    It is much simpler to see what Tarski did, Gödel hid the missing inference steps
    behind Gödel numbers and diagonalization.

    This is Tarski's formalized Liar Paradox
    x ∉ True if and only if p
    where the symbol 'p' represents the whole sentence x
    https://liarparadox.org/Tarski_275_276.pdf

    This is stated more simply as LP := ~True(L ,LP)

    Tarski found out that ~True(L, LP) is true (in his meta theory) and
    True(L,LP) is not provable in his theory and this got him confused.

    This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true" is true because
    "This sentence is not true" is not true.
    PL Olcott
    Even if I'm just an amateur on these issues, I think here's a mistake.

    Gödel isn't just coming up with the Liar paradox and "hiding" the missing inference steps behind Gödel numbers and diagonalization. Many people do think that Gödel has fallen into the trap of self reference and is talking about basically the paradox, but he isn't.

    He is talking about provability and makes a formal mathematical statement not of "this sentence is not true", but "this sentence is unprovable" or "the sentence (s) in unprovable". It isn't a paradox as the statement simply is unprovable, not illogical. While proving or giving a proof in mathematics is very close and usually the same thing to computation, then it's no wonder that the undecidability results are so close to each other (Gödel, Turing, Tarski).

    And they aren't confused. Their findings aren't something that just can be assume away, it simply would be illogical to do that.

    For myself the clearest example of this diagonalization is for you to say something that you don't say. Now, does there exist something that you don't ever say? Of course! But simply you cannot say it. It doesn't go away by assumption.
  • tim wood
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    From your Stanford page: It won't copy and paste, so I paraphrase:

    Assume x <-> T(x) for all x. T(x) simply expressing that x is true. That is, for all x, x holds iff T(x) holds. The assumption being that T itself is well-defined.

    Let φ be the sentence, "φ is not true."

    Thus φ <-> ~T(φ). However, that with φ <-> T(φ) is a contradiction. Leading to the conclusion that T is not well-defined.

    Now, from your other citation
    "we shall suppose the metalanguage to be so constructed that the language we are
    studying forms a fragment of it ; every expression of the language
    is at the same time an expression of the metalanguage, but not
    vice versa.
    "TIIEOREM I. (a) In whatever way the symbol 'Tr', denoting a
    class of expressions, is defined in the metatheory, it will be possible
    to derive from it the negation of one of the sentences which were
    described in the condition (a) of the convention T;
    (b) assuming that the class of all provable sentences of the metatheory is consistent, it is impossible to construct an adequate definition of truth in the sense of convention T on the basis of the
    metatheory."

    That is, that the metalanguage is not the language, and truth is not in this context definable. Godel observed that Truth was not recursively definable, so he backed off to provability, which he showed was. Were truth so definable, then there would be an expression that was both true and untrue - a contradiction. Godel, on the other hand, created an expression that was true but unprovable (in a certain relevant sense), not a contradiction. This a sketch.

    But let's once and for all put all this aside, because it has nothing to do with your claims, which you seem to be unable to directly address or answer any questions about.
    --------------------
    Here is your claim from above:
    " My True(L,x) predicate is defined to return true or false for every finite string x on the basis of the existence of a sequence of truth preserving operations that derive x from A set of finite string semantic meanings that form an accurate verbal model of the general knowledge of the actual world that form a finite set of finite strings that are stipulated to have the semantic value of Boolean true."

    Let's stipulate that your "verbal model..," which is practically impossible and I suspect theoretically impossible, exists. I assume you mean that finite stings will be input, and that in every case the output will be, correctly, a T or an F. How will it work?
  • PL Olcott
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    Gödel isn't just coming up with the Liar paradox and "hiding" the missing inference steps behind Gödel numbers and diagonalization. Many people do think that Gödel has fallen into the trap of self reference and is talking about basically the paradox, but he isn't.ssu

    Did you notice that I changed the subject to Tarski?
    Tarski does the same thing as Gödel yet shows his work.
  • PL Olcott
    626
    Let's stipulate that your "verbal model..," which is practically impossible and I suspect theoretically impossible, exists. I assume you mean that finite stings will be input, and that in every case the output will be, correctly, a T or an F. How will it work?tim wood

    We can see that when we formalize the Liar Paradox correctly
    LP := ~True(L, LP)

    and not the clumsy way that Tarski formalized it :
    x ∉ True if and only if p
    where the symbol 'p' represents the whole sentence x

    There is no need for any separate theory and meta-theory.
    True(L, LP) is false
    True(L, ~LP) is false

    Truthbearer(L,x) ≡ (True(L,x) ∨ True(L,~x))
    Truthbearer(L,LP) is false

    and we get the same result as the Tarski meta-theory directly in L
    ~True(L, LP) is true.
  • ssu
    8.4k
    OK, these all are undecidability results and hence are quite similar.
    Yet these findings aren't a repeat finding of a paradox. As also @tim wood stated, what Gödel shows is that there's a true, but unprovable sentences.

    Referring to the https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truthmakers/#Max about truthmakers, it seems that you make a similar argument like Rodriguez-Pereyra (2006c) to the refutation of Milne (2005). Hence you want to refer to the Liar Paradox here. (According to Rodriguez-Pereyra, because (M) is akin to the Liar sentence there’s no reason to suppose that (M) is meaningful either).

    Or as you say in the OP:

    Finite string expressions that are not truth-bearers are rejected
    as a type mismatch error for every formal system of bivalent logic.
    PL Olcott

    Yet Milne has the gist of this: the problem here is that there indeed are true, but unprovable truths. It really doesn't go away by thinking that forbidding paradoxes, forbidding negative self reference or diagonalization and then assuming that everything can be done and all is well.

    Hence if the maximalist view is that "For every truth, then there must be something in the world that makes it true" it still holds, with the simple caveat: yet not all of these truths can be proven to be true.

    Hopefully you get what I'm trying to say here.
  • PL Olcott
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    what Gödel shows is that there's a true, but unprovable sentences.ssu

    He doesn't actually show that and if he didn't hide his work we could see that he doesn't really show that. He doesn't even claim that, yet what he does claim is a little incoherent. G is true in PA yet not provable in PA. The way that we know G is true is that G is provable in meta-math.

    Yet Milne has the gist of this: the problem here is that there indeed are true, but unprovable truths.ssu

    I have studied these actual papers. Milne is actually saying that there are some expressions that we know are true yet have no way what-so-ever to know that they are true. If an expression utterly lacks any criterion measure showing that it is true then it remains untrue.

    The thing that all of these writers currently lack is shown below:
    TT := True(L, TT)
    TM := Has-a-Truthmaker(L, TM)
    LP := ~True(L, LP)

    True(L, TT) is false
    True(L, ~TT) is false

    True(L, TM) is false
    True(L, ~TM) is false

    True(L, LP) is false
    True(L, ~LP) is false

    Copyright 2024 PL Olcott

    HERE IS WHY NONE OF THEM ARE TRUTH-BEARERS
    BEGIN:(Clocksin & Mellish 2003:254)
    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)
  • tim wood
    9.2k
    He doesn't actually show that and if he didn't hide his work we could see that he doesn't really show that. He doesn't even claim that, yet what he does claim is a little incoherent. G is true in PA yet not provable in PA. The way that we know G is true is that G is provable in meta-math.PL Olcott

    Actually, he does show that - we're skipping over some details - and he proves it. Now, you make clear where he "is a little incoherent." And now I shall insist you use plain English.

    ------
    We can see that when we formalize the Liar Paradox correctly
    LP := ~True(L, LP)

    and not the clumsy way that Tarski formalized it :
    x ∉ True if and only if p
    where the symbol 'p' represents the whole sentence x
    PL Olcott

    From your Stanford reference we have, "Let φ be the sentence, "φ is not true." That is, we have φ, simple enough and we need nothing else.
    -------------
    Now, in plain English, using φ, describe how your "system" works.

    What you claim is that it knows what is true and what is not. I'm very skeptical, because of many arguments against this, and also not least because you have been singularly non-responsive through at least two threads and many posts.
  • ssu
    8.4k
    He doesn't actually show that and if he didn't hide his work we could see that he doesn't really show that. He doesn't even claim that, yet what he does claim is a little incoherent.PL Olcott
    :brow:

    Gödel is incoherent?

    Milne is actually saying that there are some expressions that we know are true yet have no way what-so-ever to know that they are true. If an expression utterly lacks any criterion measure showing that it is true then it remains untrue.PL Olcott
    Interesting to talk about the same issue in two threads at the same time, but anyway...

    Ok, let's think about some of these expressions. And no, I haven't seen the actual Milne's paper, so I cannot say more when I have just the one link. (Is it free and obtainable by the net?)

    Now, can you give an answer you don't give? It would be illogical if you could. Are there in existence these kind of answers? Obviously yes. What defines them? Obviously the answers that you, @PL Olcott gives.

    The above shows just what the problem is when you "Cantor's diagonalization" or basically negative self reference.

    So what your problem in using diagonalization?
  • PL Olcott
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    From your Stanford reference we have, "Let φ be the sentence, "φ is not true." That is, we have φ, simple enough and we need nothing else.
    -------------
    Now, in plain English, using φ, describe how your "system" works.

    What you claim is that it knows what is true and what is not. I'm very skeptical, because of many arguments against this, and also not least because you have been singularly non-responsive through at least two threads and many posts.
    tim wood

    I want to mostly Gödel and focus on how a True(L,x) predicate would actually apply to the properly formalize Liar Paradox.
    LP := ~True(L, LP)

    <Tarski Undefinability>
    We shall show that the sentence x is actually undecidable
    and at the same time true ... (page 275)

    the proof of
    the sentence x given in the metatheory can automatically be
    carried over into the theory itself: the sentence x which is
    undecidable in the original theory becomes a decidable sentence
    in the enriched theory.
    https://liarparadox.org/Tarski_275_276.pdf (page 276)
    </Tarski Undefinability>

    When we stick with theory L we get the same results, thus no need for any metatheory
    True(L, LP) is false
    True(L, ~LP) is false
    Truthbearer(L,x) ≡ (True(L,x) ∨ True(L,~x))

    So what Tarski says is undecidable in his theory is actually not a truth-bearer in his theory.
    What Tarski said is provable in his metatheory making it true in his theory is
    ~True(L, LP) is true in his theory because LP is not a truth-bearer in L.
  • PL Olcott
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    Ok, let's think about some of these expressions. And no, I haven't seen the actual Milne's paper, so I cannot say more when I have just the one link. (Is it free and obtainable by the net?)ssu

    Not every truth has a truthmaker II PETER MILNE
    https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=e5f9578348844874f5d2542dcaff8d481e016483

    Truthmaker Maximalism defended GONZALO RODRIGUEZ-PEREYRA
    https://philarchive.org/archive/RODTMD

    The above shows just what the problem is when you "Cantor's diagonalization" or basically negative self reference.

    So what your problem in using diagonalization?
    ssu

    When we can directly see the cycle in the directed graph of the evaluation
    sequence of an expression (thus not an acyclic directed graph) then we can
    see the expression is not provable because there is something wrong with it.

    When we hide this behind Gödelization and diagonalization we can still see
    that that expression X is unprovable yet lose the fact that X is unprovable
    because there is something wrong with it.

    Undecidability, Provability, True(L,x) and Tarski Undefinability are all inherently interrelated.

    ...14 Every epistemological antinomy can likewise be used for a similar undecidability proof...
    (Gödel 1931:43-44)

    The key missing piece is that no one ever noticed that epistemological antinomies are simply not truth-bearers, thus must be rejected by any formal system of bivalent logic. Once rejected they cannot form any basis for any undecidability proof.
  • PL Olcott
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    From your Stanford reference we have, "Let φ be the sentence, "φ is not true." That is, we have φ, simple enough and we need nothing else.
    -------------
    Now, in plain English, using φ, describe how your "system" works.
    tim wood

    In plain English:
    "φ is not true."
    What is φ not true about?
    φ is not true about being not true.
    What is φ not true about being not true about?
    φ is not true about being not true about being not true...
    Ok so φ NEVER gets to the actual point.
  • tim wood
    9.2k
    In plain English:
    "φ is not true."
    What is φ not true about?
    φ is not true about being not true.
    What is φ not true about being not true about?
    φ is not true about being not true about being not true...
    Ok so φ NEVER gets to the actual point.
    PL Olcott
    -----------------------
    What does, 'being about" mean? That is, what prevents me from playing, "what is X about" with any X, thus proving that "X never gets to the actual point"?

    From reading your citation, it appears you're looking for a truth-maker for φ and not finding one. And from the reading, it is not clear that it needs one; i.e., φ is a truth-bearer. The problem, of course, is that if φ is true, then it is not true, and if it is not true, then it is true. Apparently this implies that any system that can define truth is inconsistent, "Tarski showed that the liar paradox is formalisable in any formal theory containing his schema T, and thus any such theory must be inconsistent. This result is often referred to as Tarski’s theorem on the undefinability of truth" (Sec. 2.1 your citation, here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-reference/#ConSemPar).

    But Godel showed us his proposition g, which says g is not provable - and Godel shows us explicitly and exactly how to create g. And self-reference is not the trick.

    My True(L,x) predicate is defined to return true or false for every
    finite string x on the basis of the existence of a sequence of truth preserving operations that derive x from
    PL Olcott
    Now, your predicate, lets call it P. is defined to return T or F for every string input. And that, apparently, based on finding a truth-maker of some kind for the particular string. But this either constitutes a definition of truth, or is purely an arbitrary distinction made by your program, in which case the P could stand for Procrustean predicate. Or in short, your T and F are exactly not T and F, but some approximation of them.

    And even as approximations, in as much as your claim applies to all input strings, it remains for you to make explicitly clear how your predicate makes the distinctions that it does.

    I conceded a long time ago that you're entitled to make private claims about your private system, but the claims you are making are public, in he sense that you can be called to account for them. And among them are these, in no special order,
    1) Godel was incoherent.
    2) Your system distinguishes T from F
    3) You have a listing of all "true, actual facts."

    I challenge all three and have been challenging all three, to date none resolved.
  • PL Olcott
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    From reading your citation, it appears you're looking for a truth-maker for φ and not finding one. And from the reading, it is not clear that it needs one; i.e., φ is a truth-bearer. The problem, of course, is that if φ is true, then it is not true, and if it is not true, then it is true.tim wood

    Hence conclusively proving that φ cannot bear the truth value of true or the truth value of false.
    That does not make True(L, φ) inconsistent. When True(L, φ) is false and True(L, ~φ) is false then φ is rejected are inherently incorrect. No sense moving beyond this point until after you totally get it.
  • tim wood
    9.2k
    That does not make True(L, φ) inconsistent. When True(L, φ) is false and True(L, ~φ) is false then φ is rejected are inherently incorrect. No sense moving beyond this point until after you totally get it.PL Olcott
    It makes it undecidable - it appears you do not know what the words you use mean - and certainly not "inherently incorrect."

    My True(L,x) predicate is defined to return true or false for every finite string x on the basis of the existence of a sequence of truth preserving operations that derive x from a set of finite string semantic meanings that form an accurate verbal model of the general knowledge of the actual world that form a finite set of finite strings that are stipulated to have the semantic value of Boolean true.PL Olcott
    As described here, this is just a sorting program for testing inputs against a data base and dividing them into those that "agree" and those that don't, which you then call true and false. Which, as you present it and have answered questions about it, has zero interest or substance and too much nonsense.
  • PL Olcott
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    It makes it undecidable - it appears you do not know what the words you use mean - and certainly not "inherently incorrect."tim wood

    A truth-bearer is an expression of language X that can be possibly evaluated to a Boolean value.

    What the logicians call an undecidable expression X the philosophers of logic correctly assess
    as not truth-bearer X.

    Here is a much more formal way of saying the same thing:

    Back in 2019 I created a formal system that detects cycles in the evaluation of an expression:
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331859461_Minimal_Type_Theory_YACC_BNF

    Initially it took any MTT expression and output the directed graph
    of the evaluation sequence of this expression. The current system
    only outputs the XML of the expression yet the directed graph can
    still be derived manually.

    The directed graph nodes numbers are on the left (00,01,02) and the nodes
    that they transition to (directed graph edges) are on the right (01,02,00)
    LP := ~True(L, LP)
    00 Not 01
    01 True 02, 00 // cycle detected
    02 L

    It turns out the Prolog can also detect cycles in the directed
    graph of the evaluation sequence of an expression.

    The SWI-Prolog implementation of unify_with_occurs_check/2 is cycle-safe
    and only guards against creating cycles, not against cycles that may
    already be present in one of the arguments.
    https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?predicate=unify_with_occurs_check/2

    ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
    LP = not(true(LP)).

    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
    false.

    In other words Prolog has detected a cycle in the directed graph of the
    evaluation sequence of the structure of the Liar Paradox. Experts seem
    to think that Prolog is taking "not" and "true" as meaningless and is
    only evaluating the structure of the expression.
  • tim wood
    9.2k
    Yes, you create a formal system that does what you program it to do - no problems, no complaints. But then you make a lot of other claims about truth and falsity, about decidability, about the Liar and about Godelian self-reference - not the same thing. The point, I suppose, is that while your claims are defensible bespoke to your program, you re-present them as universal, and that is the case you don't make.

    For example, let your database, described above, be represented by, "The cat sleeps on the couch." You now test "finite" strings against your database, and those that pass are "true," those that don't, "false." And you can do that. But what has that to do with true and false, or knowledge of any kind, or anything undecidable? How does that show that Godel was mistaken or incoherent? Or that Tarski was confused?
  • PL Olcott
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    For example, let your database, described above, be represented by, "The cat sleeps on the couch." You now test "finite" strings against your database, and those that pass are "true," those that don't, "false." And you can do that. But what has that to do with true and false, or knowledge of any kind, or anything undecidable? How does that show that Godel was mistaken or incoherent? Or that Tarski was confused?tim wood

    Any cycle in the directed graph of the evaluation sequence of any expression conclusively proves that this expression is not a truth-bearer thus must be rejected by any formal system of bivalent logic.

    ...14 Every epistemological antinomy can likewise be used for a similar undecidability proof...
    (Gödel 1931:43-44)

    This is also true for any {epistemological antinomy} AKA self-contradictory expression. If X cannot possibly be evaluated to true or false (for whatever reason) then X must be rejected by any formal system of bivalent logic.
  • tim wood
    9.2k
    That's right, blah-blah-blah, deflect, avoid, misdirect, resort to jargon, straw man, non-sequitur, whatever it takes to avoid answering the question - or any question - substantively, and that seems to make you look smart. I hold you self-convicted of ignorance and nonsense in your inability to be responsive and what appears to be much that is simply wrong.

    Warning to all, PL Olcott is a retailer of self-promotion without substance.

    And any time you want to prove me wrong your keyboard is within easy reach.
  • PL Olcott
    626
    And any time you want to prove me wrong your keyboard is within easy reach.tim wood

    I either have to explain it in technical terms that you don't understand or explain
    it in plain English where too much important meanings slip through the cracks.

    The key most important point that can be summed up using the technical terms
    of philosophy is that {epistemological antinomies} are not {truth-bearers}.
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