• Re: Olcott's system (not Hobbes)

    From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Tue Jul 14 16:56:51 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 7/14/2026 4:39 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 05:07 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    [ Followup-To: set ]

    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 7/13/2026 4:09 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:

    [ .... ]

    That remains to be shown.

    Maybe you think that actual facts might not be true?

    Facts are true by definition.-a A "complete set of atomic facts" is not >>>> even conceivable.-a We know such a set, if consistent, would be
    incomplete by G||del's Incompleteness Theorem.-a So such a set cannot
    exist.


    All undecidability is unmasked as semantic
    incoherence or outside of the body of knowledge.

    Meaningless word salad.

    When we stupidly have fucked up ways for determining
    what is true we get fucked up results.

    You should revert to expressing your thoughts in less offensive terms.

    P reo Q means syntactic derivation implements semantic
    entailment encoded in syntactically the language.

    It doesn't.

    This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Grammatically ill-formed.-a But it's probably wrong, anyway.

    By this measure PA reo G is simply false.

    You aren't using that symbol with its standard meaning, so there's
    nothing to reply to.

    That you make sure to refuse to begin to understand
    any of the details of this is no rebuttal at all.

    You should learn G||del's Incompleteness Theorem, accept that it is
    proven, and amend your somewhat ridiculous claims to take it into
    account.

    Since you refuse to accept any of the definitions
    of my terms I can't begin to show how they work.

    You're attempting to replace precise terms of the art with vague
    half-definitions, probably to be able to equivocate, and never to be
    pinned down to a precise meaning.

    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott



    That seems one of the problems with something like "Hobbes' nominalism", which beyond "extreme fictionalism" is like "the Red Queen's" entirely caprious judgment, one wondering whether Carroll's court-erie is a
    parody of Hobbes.

    Here instead there's perceived the, "requirements and desiderata",
    of the theory, before getting into "architecture and implementation",
    of a, "extreme rationalism", into thinks like "axiomless arithmetic"
    and "axiomless geometry" that gives both the Archimedean and Euclidean
    and the sub- and super- Archimedean and Euclidean, about deconstructive accounts then about what arrives for universals.

    Carroll or Dodgson's mathematical infinitesimals are rather as like the cumulative hierarchy of ordinals in reverse, ....


    P <semantically entails> Q means syntactic derivation
    implements semantic entailment encoded in syntactically
    the language. This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Very difficult can understand yet the above completely
    proves my whole point. As a concrete example of semantic
    entailment specified syntactically we have expressions
    written in the CycL ontology language.

    To everyone that cannot possibly begin to understand
    anything about semantics outside of model theory, you
    just don't have a single clue about the actual full
    field of semantics.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Tue Jul 14 15:38:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 07/14/2026 02:56 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 4:39 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 05:07 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    [ Followup-To: set ]

    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 7/13/2026 4:09 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:

    [ .... ]

    That remains to be shown.

    Maybe you think that actual facts might not be true?

    Facts are true by definition. A "complete set of atomic facts" is not >>>>> even conceivable. We know such a set, if consistent, would be
    incomplete by G||del's Incompleteness Theorem. So such a set cannot >>>>> exist.


    All undecidability is unmasked as semantic
    incoherence or outside of the body of knowledge.

    Meaningless word salad.

    When we stupidly have fucked up ways for determining
    what is true we get fucked up results.

    You should revert to expressing your thoughts in less offensive terms.

    P reo Q means syntactic derivation implements semantic
    entailment encoded in syntactically the language.

    It doesn't.

    This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Grammatically ill-formed. But it's probably wrong, anyway.

    By this measure PA reo G is simply false.

    You aren't using that symbol with its standard meaning, so there's
    nothing to reply to.

    That you make sure to refuse to begin to understand
    any of the details of this is no rebuttal at all.

    You should learn G||del's Incompleteness Theorem, accept that it is
    proven, and amend your somewhat ridiculous claims to take it into
    account.

    Since you refuse to accept any of the definitions
    of my terms I can't begin to show how they work.

    You're attempting to replace precise terms of the art with vague
    half-definitions, probably to be able to equivocate, and never to be
    pinned down to a precise meaning.

    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott



    That seems one of the problems with something like "Hobbes' nominalism",
    which beyond "extreme fictionalism" is like "the Red Queen's" entirely
    caprious judgment, one wondering whether Carroll's court-erie is a
    parody of Hobbes.

    Here instead there's perceived the, "requirements and desiderata",
    of the theory, before getting into "architecture and implementation",
    of a, "extreme rationalism", into thinks like "axiomless arithmetic"
    and "axiomless geometry" that gives both the Archimedean and Euclidean
    and the sub- and super- Archimedean and Euclidean, about deconstructive
    accounts then about what arrives for universals.

    Carroll or Dodgson's mathematical infinitesimals are rather as like the
    cumulative hierarchy of ordinals in reverse, ....


    P <semantically entails> Q means syntactic derivation
    implements semantic entailment encoded in syntactically
    the language. This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Very difficult can understand yet the above completely
    proves my whole point. As a concrete example of semantic
    entailment specified syntactically we have expressions
    written in the CycL ontology language.

    To everyone that cannot possibly begin to understand
    anything about semantics outside of model theory, you
    just don't have a single clue about the actual full
    field of semantics.


    Doesn't say much, that's just the definition of entailment,
    and omits monotonicity, which makes for the not the inconstancy.


    Peano's notion of infinitesimals is similar yet not the same
    as Dodgson's, both alike Newton's, "fleas that bite them,
    ad infinitum", yet here it's more for Cavalieri's indivisibles
    and Leibniz' raw differential, more specifically the iota-values,
    "standard infinitesimals".

    Veronese and Stolz, Brouwer, Conway's, Robinson's, ...,
    pretty much only the "standard infinitesimals" as these
    iota-values (or like the differential) have "real analytical character".



    Coming up with "requirements" is a lot different than "architecture".


    The "synthetic fragmented pluralism non-classical logic" or
    the "inconstancy" is a bit too much the Tweedle-ing.


    "Snicker-snack, ...", eliminating paradox.
    After confronting it, not ignoring it.


    Sock-bot




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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Tue Jul 14 17:49:49 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 7/14/2026 5:38 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 02:56 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 4:39 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 05:07 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    [ Followup-To: set ]

    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 7/13/2026 4:09 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:

    [ .... ]

    That remains to be shown.

    Maybe you think that actual facts might not be true?

    Facts are true by definition.-a A "complete set of atomic facts" is >>>>>> not
    even conceivable.-a We know such a set, if consistent, would be
    incomplete by G||del's Incompleteness Theorem.-a So such a set cannot >>>>>> exist.


    All undecidability is unmasked as semantic
    incoherence or outside of the body of knowledge.

    Meaningless word salad.

    When we stupidly have fucked up ways for determining
    what is true we get fucked up results.

    You should revert to expressing your thoughts in less offensive terms. >>>>
    P reo Q means syntactic derivation implements semantic
    entailment encoded in syntactically the language.

    It doesn't.

    This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Grammatically ill-formed.-a But it's probably wrong, anyway.

    By this measure PA reo G is simply false.

    You aren't using that symbol with its standard meaning, so there's
    nothing to reply to.

    That you make sure to refuse to begin to understand
    any of the details of this is no rebuttal at all.

    You should learn G||del's Incompleteness Theorem, accept that it is
    proven, and amend your somewhat ridiculous claims to take it into
    account.

    Since you refuse to accept any of the definitions
    of my terms I can't begin to show how they work.

    You're attempting to replace precise terms of the art with vague
    half-definitions, probably to be able to equivocate, and never to be
    pinned down to a precise meaning.

    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott



    That seems one of the problems with something like "Hobbes' nominalism", >>> which beyond "extreme fictionalism" is like "the Red Queen's" entirely
    caprious judgment, one wondering whether Carroll's court-erie is a
    parody of Hobbes.

    Here instead there's perceived the, "requirements and desiderata",
    of the theory, before getting into "architecture and implementation",
    of a, "extreme rationalism", into thinks like "axiomless arithmetic"
    and "axiomless geometry" that gives both the Archimedean and Euclidean
    and the sub- and super- Archimedean and Euclidean, about deconstructive
    accounts then about what arrives for universals.

    Carroll or Dodgson's mathematical infinitesimals are rather as like the
    cumulative hierarchy of ordinals in reverse, ....


    P <semantically entails> Q means syntactic derivation
    implements semantic entailment encoded in syntactically
    the language. This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Very difficult can understand yet the above completely
    proves my whole point. As a concrete example of semantic
    entailment specified syntactically we have expressions
    written in the CycL ontology language.

    To everyone that cannot possibly begin to understand
    anything about semantics outside of model theory, you
    just don't have a single clue about the actual full
    field of semantics.


    Doesn't say much, that's just the definition of entailment,
    and omits monotonicity, which makes for the not the inconstancy.



    It all a {meaning of words} thing that everyone here
    cannot begin to understand because they are totally
    stuck on numbers.

    Formal semantics of linguistics of formalized natural
    language does not have one damn thing to do with numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_grammar

    I avoided all of those big words so that I would not make
    everyone here look like a complete ignoramus.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Tue Jul 14 17:29:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 07/14/2026 03:49 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 5:38 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 02:56 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 4:39 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 05:07 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    [ Followup-To: set ]

    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 7/13/2026 4:09 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:

    [ .... ]

    That remains to be shown.

    Maybe you think that actual facts might not be true?

    Facts are true by definition. A "complete set of atomic facts"
    is not
    even conceivable. We know such a set, if consistent, would be
    incomplete by G||del's Incompleteness Theorem. So such a set cannot >>>>>>> exist.


    All undecidability is unmasked as semantic
    incoherence or outside of the body of knowledge.

    Meaningless word salad.

    When we stupidly have fucked up ways for determining
    what is true we get fucked up results.

    You should revert to expressing your thoughts in less offensive terms. >>>>>
    P reo Q means syntactic derivation implements semantic
    entailment encoded in syntactically the language.

    It doesn't.

    This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Grammatically ill-formed. But it's probably wrong, anyway.

    By this measure PA reo G is simply false.

    You aren't using that symbol with its standard meaning, so there's
    nothing to reply to.

    That you make sure to refuse to begin to understand
    any of the details of this is no rebuttal at all.

    You should learn G||del's Incompleteness Theorem, accept that it is
    proven, and amend your somewhat ridiculous claims to take it into
    account.

    Since you refuse to accept any of the definitions
    of my terms I can't begin to show how they work.

    You're attempting to replace precise terms of the art with vague
    half-definitions, probably to be able to equivocate, and never to be >>>>> pinned down to a precise meaning.

    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott



    That seems one of the problems with something like "Hobbes'
    nominalism",
    which beyond "extreme fictionalism" is like "the Red Queen's" entirely >>>> caprious judgment, one wondering whether Carroll's court-erie is a
    parody of Hobbes.

    Here instead there's perceived the, "requirements and desiderata",
    of the theory, before getting into "architecture and implementation",
    of a, "extreme rationalism", into thinks like "axiomless arithmetic"
    and "axiomless geometry" that gives both the Archimedean and Euclidean >>>> and the sub- and super- Archimedean and Euclidean, about deconstructive >>>> accounts then about what arrives for universals.

    Carroll or Dodgson's mathematical infinitesimals are rather as like the >>>> cumulative hierarchy of ordinals in reverse, ....


    P <semantically entails> Q means syntactic derivation
    implements semantic entailment encoded in syntactically
    the language. This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Very difficult can understand yet the above completely
    proves my whole point. As a concrete example of semantic
    entailment specified syntactically we have expressions
    written in the CycL ontology language.

    To everyone that cannot possibly begin to understand
    anything about semantics outside of model theory, you
    just don't have a single clue about the actual full
    field of semantics.


    Doesn't say much, that's just the definition of entailment,
    and omits monotonicity, which makes for the not the inconstancy.



    It all a {meaning of words} thing that everyone here
    cannot begin to understand because they are totally
    stuck on numbers.

    Formal semantics of linguistics of formalized natural
    language does not have one damn thing to do with numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_grammar

    I avoided all of those big words so that I would not make
    everyone here look like a complete ignoramus.


    Saying "Montague grammar" picks up "material implication"
    and "ex falso quodlibet" a.k.a. "principle of explosion",
    so, it's your own foot you're shooting.

    Instead here there are considered "Herbrand semantics".
    Montague was just a party-boy flake in the orbit of Tarski.



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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Tue Jul 14 19:38:47 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 7/14/2026 7:29 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 03:49 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 5:38 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 02:56 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 4:39 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 05:07 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    [ Followup-To: set ]

    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 7/13/2026 4:09 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:

    [ .... ]

    That remains to be shown.

    Maybe you think that actual facts might not be true?

    Facts are true by definition.-a A "complete set of atomic facts" >>>>>>>> is not
    even conceivable.-a We know such a set, if consistent, would be >>>>>>>> incomplete by G||del's Incompleteness Theorem.-a So such a set cannot >>>>>>>> exist.


    All undecidability is unmasked as semantic
    incoherence or outside of the body of knowledge.

    Meaningless word salad.

    When we stupidly have fucked up ways for determining
    what is true we get fucked up results.

    You should revert to expressing your thoughts in less offensive
    terms.

    P reo Q means syntactic derivation implements semantic
    entailment encoded in syntactically the language.

    It doesn't.

    This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Grammatically ill-formed.-a But it's probably wrong, anyway.

    By this measure PA reo G is simply false.

    You aren't using that symbol with its standard meaning, so there's >>>>>> nothing to reply to.

    That you make sure to refuse to begin to understand
    any of the details of this is no rebuttal at all.

    You should learn G||del's Incompleteness Theorem, accept that it is >>>>>> proven, and amend your somewhat ridiculous claims to take it into
    account.

    Since you refuse to accept any of the definitions
    of my terms I can't begin to show how they work.

    You're attempting to replace precise terms of the art with vague
    half-definitions, probably to be able to equivocate, and never to be >>>>>> pinned down to a precise meaning.

    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott



    That seems one of the problems with something like "Hobbes'
    nominalism",
    which beyond "extreme fictionalism" is like "the Red Queen's" entirely >>>>> caprious judgment, one wondering whether Carroll's court-erie is a
    parody of Hobbes.

    Here instead there's perceived the, "requirements and desiderata",
    of the theory, before getting into "architecture and implementation", >>>>> of a, "extreme rationalism", into thinks like "axiomless arithmetic" >>>>> and "axiomless geometry" that gives both the Archimedean and Euclidean >>>>> and the sub- and super- Archimedean and Euclidean, about
    deconstructive
    accounts then about what arrives for universals.

    Carroll or Dodgson's mathematical infinitesimals are rather as like >>>>> the
    cumulative hierarchy of ordinals in reverse, ....


    P <semantically entails> Q means syntactic derivation
    implements semantic entailment encoded in syntactically
    the language. This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Very difficult can understand yet the above completely
    proves my whole point. As a concrete example of semantic
    entailment specified syntactically we have expressions
    written in the CycL ontology language.

    To everyone that cannot possibly begin to understand
    anything about semantics outside of model theory, you
    just don't have a single clue about the actual full
    field of semantics.


    Doesn't say much, that's just the definition of entailment,
    and omits monotonicity, which makes for the not the inconstancy.



    It all a {meaning of words} thing that everyone here
    cannot begin to understand because they are totally
    stuck on numbers.

    Formal semantics of linguistics of formalized natural
    language does not have one damn thing to do with numbers.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_grammar

    I avoided all of those big words so that I would not make
    everyone here look like a complete ignoramus.


    Saying "Montague grammar" picks up "material implication"
    and "ex falso quodlibet" a.k.a. "principle of explosion",
    so, it's your own foot you're shooting.


    Not when you think these things all the way through.

    Instead here there are considered "Herbrand semantics".
    Montague was just a party-boy flake in the orbit of Tarski.




    Gemini thinks that you are very good with computation.
    It looked up your professional work. If this is so and
    not just bullshit then you could actually understand the
    details of the structure of the Cyc Project and the CycL
    language.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Tue Jul 14 19:03:40 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 07/14/2026 05:38 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 7:29 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 03:49 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 5:38 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 02:56 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 4:39 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 05:07 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    [ Followup-To: set ]

    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 7/13/2026 4:09 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:

    [ .... ]

    That remains to be shown.

    Maybe you think that actual facts might not be true?

    Facts are true by definition. A "complete set of atomic facts" >>>>>>>>> is not
    even conceivable. We know such a set, if consistent, would be >>>>>>>>> incomplete by G||del's Incompleteness Theorem. So such a set >>>>>>>>> cannot
    exist.


    All undecidability is unmasked as semantic
    incoherence or outside of the body of knowledge.

    Meaningless word salad.

    When we stupidly have fucked up ways for determining
    what is true we get fucked up results.

    You should revert to expressing your thoughts in less offensive
    terms.

    P reo Q means syntactic derivation implements semantic
    entailment encoded in syntactically the language.

    It doesn't.

    This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Grammatically ill-formed. But it's probably wrong, anyway.

    By this measure PA reo G is simply false.

    You aren't using that symbol with its standard meaning, so there's >>>>>>> nothing to reply to.

    That you make sure to refuse to begin to understand
    any of the details of this is no rebuttal at all.

    You should learn G||del's Incompleteness Theorem, accept that it is >>>>>>> proven, and amend your somewhat ridiculous claims to take it into >>>>>>> account.

    Since you refuse to accept any of the definitions
    of my terms I can't begin to show how they work.

    You're attempting to replace precise terms of the art with vague >>>>>>> half-definitions, probably to be able to equivocate, and never to be >>>>>>> pinned down to a precise meaning.

    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott



    That seems one of the problems with something like "Hobbes'
    nominalism",
    which beyond "extreme fictionalism" is like "the Red Queen's"
    entirely
    caprious judgment, one wondering whether Carroll's court-erie is a >>>>>> parody of Hobbes.

    Here instead there's perceived the, "requirements and desiderata", >>>>>> of the theory, before getting into "architecture and implementation", >>>>>> of a, "extreme rationalism", into thinks like "axiomless arithmetic" >>>>>> and "axiomless geometry" that gives both the Archimedean and
    Euclidean
    and the sub- and super- Archimedean and Euclidean, about
    deconstructive
    accounts then about what arrives for universals.

    Carroll or Dodgson's mathematical infinitesimals are rather as
    like the
    cumulative hierarchy of ordinals in reverse, ....


    P <semantically entails> Q means syntactic derivation
    implements semantic entailment encoded in syntactically
    the language. This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Very difficult can understand yet the above completely
    proves my whole point. As a concrete example of semantic
    entailment specified syntactically we have expressions
    written in the CycL ontology language.

    To everyone that cannot possibly begin to understand
    anything about semantics outside of model theory, you
    just don't have a single clue about the actual full
    field of semantics.


    Doesn't say much, that's just the definition of entailment,
    and omits monotonicity, which makes for the not the inconstancy.



    It all a {meaning of words} thing that everyone here
    cannot begin to understand because they are totally
    stuck on numbers.

    Formal semantics of linguistics of formalized natural
    language does not have one damn thing to do with numbers.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_grammar

    I avoided all of those big words so that I would not make
    everyone here look like a complete ignoramus.


    Saying "Montague grammar" picks up "material implication"
    and "ex falso quodlibet" a.k.a. "principle of explosion",
    so, it's your own foot you're shooting.


    Not when you think these things all the way through.

    Instead here there are considered "Herbrand semantics".
    Montague was just a party-boy flake in the orbit of Tarski.




    Gemini thinks that you are very good with computation.
    It looked up your professional work. If this is so and
    not just bullshit then you could actually understand the
    details of the structure of the Cyc Project and the CycL
    language.


    I'm a qualified and experienced professional programmer/analyst,
    various knowledge inference formats like KIF, RDF, OWL, or
    basically usually often enough about 3-tuples of relation
    yet for the temporal introducing 5-tuples, are almost never
    found salient in the koolaid and the firehose.

    That said, ontology is simply organization in knowledge,
    it's that simple, not a guarantee itself.


    There are some who call me, ..., "Temp"?



    Dance, Rummy.


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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Tue Jul 14 21:12:24 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 7/14/2026 9:03 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 05:38 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 7:29 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 03:49 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 5:38 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 02:56 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 4:39 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 05:07 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    [ Followup-To: set ]

    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 7/13/2026 4:09 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:

    [ .... ]

    That remains to be shown.

    Maybe you think that actual facts might not be true?

    Facts are true by definition.-a A "complete set of atomic facts" >>>>>>>>>> is not
    even conceivable.-a We know such a set, if consistent, would be >>>>>>>>>> incomplete by G||del's Incompleteness Theorem.-a So such a set >>>>>>>>>> cannot
    exist.


    All undecidability is unmasked as semantic
    incoherence or outside of the body of knowledge.

    Meaningless word salad.

    When we stupidly have fucked up ways for determining
    what is true we get fucked up results.

    You should revert to expressing your thoughts in less offensive >>>>>>>> terms.

    P reo Q means syntactic derivation implements semantic
    entailment encoded in syntactically the language.

    It doesn't.

    This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Grammatically ill-formed.-a But it's probably wrong, anyway.

    By this measure PA reo G is simply false.

    You aren't using that symbol with its standard meaning, so there's >>>>>>>> nothing to reply to.

    That you make sure to refuse to begin to understand
    any of the details of this is no rebuttal at all.

    You should learn G||del's Incompleteness Theorem, accept that it is >>>>>>>> proven, and amend your somewhat ridiculous claims to take it into >>>>>>>> account.

    Since you refuse to accept any of the definitions
    of my terms I can't begin to show how they work.

    You're attempting to replace precise terms of the art with vague >>>>>>>> half-definitions, probably to be able to equivocate, and never >>>>>>>> to be
    pinned down to a precise meaning.

    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott



    That seems one of the problems with something like "Hobbes'
    nominalism",
    which beyond "extreme fictionalism" is like "the Red Queen's"
    entirely
    caprious judgment, one wondering whether Carroll's court-erie is a >>>>>>> parody of Hobbes.

    Here instead there's perceived the, "requirements and desiderata", >>>>>>> of the theory, before getting into "architecture and
    implementation",
    of a, "extreme rationalism", into thinks like "axiomless arithmetic" >>>>>>> and "axiomless geometry" that gives both the Archimedean and
    Euclidean
    and the sub- and super- Archimedean and Euclidean, about
    deconstructive
    accounts then about what arrives for universals.

    Carroll or Dodgson's mathematical infinitesimals are rather as
    like the
    cumulative hierarchy of ordinals in reverse, ....


    P <semantically entails> Q means syntactic derivation
    implements semantic entailment encoded in syntactically
    the language. This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Very difficult can understand yet the above completely
    proves my whole point. As a concrete example of semantic
    entailment specified syntactically we have expressions
    written in the CycL ontology language.

    To everyone that cannot possibly begin to understand
    anything about semantics outside of model theory, you
    just don't have a single clue about the actual full
    field of semantics.


    Doesn't say much, that's just the definition of entailment,
    and omits monotonicity, which makes for the not the inconstancy.



    It all a {meaning of words} thing that everyone here
    cannot begin to understand because they are totally
    stuck on numbers.

    Formal semantics of linguistics of formalized natural
    language does not have one damn thing to do with numbers.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_grammar

    I avoided all of those big words so that I would not make
    everyone here look like a complete ignoramus.


    Saying "Montague grammar" picks up "material implication"
    and "ex falso quodlibet" a.k.a. "principle of explosion",
    so, it's your own foot you're shooting.


    Not when you think these things all the way through.

    Instead here there are considered "Herbrand semantics".
    Montague was just a party-boy flake in the orbit of Tarski.




    Gemini thinks that you are very good with computation.
    It looked up your professional work. If this is so and
    not just bullshit then you could actually understand the
    details of the structure of the Cyc Project and the CycL
    language.


    I'm a qualified and experienced professional programmer/analyst,
    various knowledge inference formats like KIF, RDF, OWL, or
    basically usually often enough about 3-tuples of relation
    yet for the temporal introducing 5-tuples, are almost never
    found salient in the koolaid and the firehose.

    That said, ontology is simply organization in knowledge,
    it's that simple, not a guarantee itself.



    Yes so you can understand these things. A properly
    formed knowledge ontology that is sufficiently
    populated does directly facilitate making some
    subset of all truth expressed in language computable.

    The relative taste of strawberries to blueberries
    cannot be expressed in language.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Wed Jul 15 13:03:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 07/14/2026 07:12 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 9:03 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 05:38 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 7:29 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 03:49 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 5:38 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 02:56 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 4:39 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 05:07 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    [ Followup-To: set ]

    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 7/13/2026 4:09 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:

    [ .... ]

    That remains to be shown.

    Maybe you think that actual facts might not be true?

    Facts are true by definition. A "complete set of atomic facts" >>>>>>>>>>> is not
    even conceivable. We know such a set, if consistent, would be >>>>>>>>>>> incomplete by G||del's Incompleteness Theorem. So such a set >>>>>>>>>>> cannot
    exist.


    All undecidability is unmasked as semantic
    incoherence or outside of the body of knowledge.

    Meaningless word salad.

    When we stupidly have fucked up ways for determining
    what is true we get fucked up results.

    You should revert to expressing your thoughts in less offensive >>>>>>>>> terms.

    P reo Q means syntactic derivation implements semantic
    entailment encoded in syntactically the language.

    It doesn't.

    This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Grammatically ill-formed. But it's probably wrong, anyway.

    By this measure PA reo G is simply false.

    You aren't using that symbol with its standard meaning, so there's >>>>>>>>> nothing to reply to.

    That you make sure to refuse to begin to understand
    any of the details of this is no rebuttal at all.

    You should learn G||del's Incompleteness Theorem, accept that it is >>>>>>>>> proven, and amend your somewhat ridiculous claims to take it into >>>>>>>>> account.

    Since you refuse to accept any of the definitions
    of my terms I can't begin to show how they work.

    You're attempting to replace precise terms of the art with vague >>>>>>>>> half-definitions, probably to be able to equivocate, and never >>>>>>>>> to be
    pinned down to a precise meaning.

    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott



    That seems one of the problems with something like "Hobbes'
    nominalism",
    which beyond "extreme fictionalism" is like "the Red Queen's"
    entirely
    caprious judgment, one wondering whether Carroll's court-erie is a >>>>>>>> parody of Hobbes.

    Here instead there's perceived the, "requirements and desiderata", >>>>>>>> of the theory, before getting into "architecture and
    implementation",
    of a, "extreme rationalism", into thinks like "axiomless
    arithmetic"
    and "axiomless geometry" that gives both the Archimedean and
    Euclidean
    and the sub- and super- Archimedean and Euclidean, about
    deconstructive
    accounts then about what arrives for universals.

    Carroll or Dodgson's mathematical infinitesimals are rather as >>>>>>>> like the
    cumulative hierarchy of ordinals in reverse, ....


    P <semantically entails> Q means syntactic derivation
    implements semantic entailment encoded in syntactically
    the language. This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Very difficult can understand yet the above completely
    proves my whole point. As a concrete example of semantic
    entailment specified syntactically we have expressions
    written in the CycL ontology language.

    To everyone that cannot possibly begin to understand
    anything about semantics outside of model theory, you
    just don't have a single clue about the actual full
    field of semantics.


    Doesn't say much, that's just the definition of entailment,
    and omits monotonicity, which makes for the not the inconstancy.



    It all a {meaning of words} thing that everyone here
    cannot begin to understand because they are totally
    stuck on numbers.

    Formal semantics of linguistics of formalized natural
    language does not have one damn thing to do with numbers.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_grammar

    I avoided all of those big words so that I would not make
    everyone here look like a complete ignoramus.


    Saying "Montague grammar" picks up "material implication"
    and "ex falso quodlibet" a.k.a. "principle of explosion",
    so, it's your own foot you're shooting.


    Not when you think these things all the way through.

    Instead here there are considered "Herbrand semantics".
    Montague was just a party-boy flake in the orbit of Tarski.




    Gemini thinks that you are very good with computation.
    It looked up your professional work. If this is so and
    not just bullshit then you could actually understand the
    details of the structure of the Cyc Project and the CycL
    language.


    I'm a qualified and experienced professional programmer/analyst,
    various knowledge inference formats like KIF, RDF, OWL, or
    basically usually often enough about 3-tuples of relation
    yet for the temporal introducing 5-tuples, are almost never
    found salient in the koolaid and the firehose.

    That said, ontology is simply organization in knowledge,
    it's that simple, not a guarantee itself.



    Yes so you can understand these things. A properly
    formed knowledge ontology that is sufficiently
    populated does directly facilitate making some
    subset of all truth expressed in language computable.

    The relative taste of strawberries to blueberries
    cannot be expressed in language.




    Ah, the old "one step forward, two steps back" -
    the story being told is old as dirt, the Pythagoreans
    told it when their universe of magnitudes was finite ratios,
    which makes a lot of sense when there are infinite integers.

    The "the relative taste of strawberries to blueberries"
    _is_ already an expression in language.


    Strawberries are more tart while blueberries lucious,
    though both strawberries and blueberries are a bit tart
    and lucious, though usually prepared blueberries need
    less sugar, strawberries have more vitamin C while blueberries
    have more anthocyanins, while both are nutritious and with
    also non-nutritional value, less people are allergic to blueberries,
    any matter of taste can be expressed in terms of strawberries and
    blueberries, in a limited sense.


    "Colorless green" is an actual account of the dual-tri-stimulus
    colorspace of the chromatic and prismatic that monochromatic:
    an account that usual textbooks don't have.


    I'm a researcher in Foundations not just a "full-stack enterprise dev".


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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Wed Jul 15 15:56:15 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 7/15/2026 3:03 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 07:12 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 9:03 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 05:38 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 7:29 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 03:49 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 5:38 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 02:56 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 4:39 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 05:07 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    [ Followup-To: set ]

    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 7/13/2026 4:09 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:

    [ .... ]

    That remains to be shown.

    Maybe you think that actual facts might not be true?

    Facts are true by definition.-a A "complete set of atomic facts" >>>>>>>>>>>> is not
    even conceivable.-a We know such a set, if consistent, would be >>>>>>>>>>>> incomplete by G||del's Incompleteness Theorem.-a So such a set >>>>>>>>>>>> cannot
    exist.


    All undecidability is unmasked as semantic
    incoherence or outside of the body of knowledge.

    Meaningless word salad.

    When we stupidly have fucked up ways for determining
    what is true we get fucked up results.

    You should revert to expressing your thoughts in less offensive >>>>>>>>>> terms.

    P reo Q means syntactic derivation implements semantic
    entailment encoded in syntactically the language.

    It doesn't.

    This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Grammatically ill-formed.-a But it's probably wrong, anyway. >>>>>>>>>>
    By this measure PA reo G is simply false.

    You aren't using that symbol with its standard meaning, so >>>>>>>>>> there's
    nothing to reply to.

    That you make sure to refuse to begin to understand
    any of the details of this is no rebuttal at all.

    You should learn G||del's Incompleteness Theorem, accept that >>>>>>>>>> it is
    proven, and amend your somewhat ridiculous claims to take it into >>>>>>>>>> account.

    Since you refuse to accept any of the definitions
    of my terms I can't begin to show how they work.

    You're attempting to replace precise terms of the art with vague >>>>>>>>>> half-definitions, probably to be able to equivocate, and never >>>>>>>>>> to be
    pinned down to a precise meaning.

    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott



    That seems one of the problems with something like "Hobbes'
    nominalism",
    which beyond "extreme fictionalism" is like "the Red Queen's" >>>>>>>>> entirely
    caprious judgment, one wondering whether Carroll's court-erie is a >>>>>>>>> parody of Hobbes.

    Here instead there's perceived the, "requirements and desiderata", >>>>>>>>> of the theory, before getting into "architecture and
    implementation",
    of a, "extreme rationalism", into thinks like "axiomless
    arithmetic"
    and "axiomless geometry" that gives both the Archimedean and >>>>>>>>> Euclidean
    and the sub- and super- Archimedean and Euclidean, about
    deconstructive
    accounts then about what arrives for universals.

    Carroll or Dodgson's mathematical infinitesimals are rather as >>>>>>>>> like the
    cumulative hierarchy of ordinals in reverse, ....


    P <semantically entails> Q means syntactic derivation
    implements semantic entailment encoded in syntactically
    the language. This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Very difficult can understand yet the above completely
    proves my whole point. As a concrete example of semantic
    entailment specified syntactically we have expressions
    written in the CycL ontology language.

    To everyone that cannot possibly begin to understand
    anything about semantics outside of model theory, you
    just don't have a single clue about the actual full
    field of semantics.


    Doesn't say much, that's just the definition of entailment,
    and omits monotonicity, which makes for the not the inconstancy. >>>>>>>


    It all a {meaning of words} thing that everyone here
    cannot begin to understand because they are totally
    stuck on numbers.

    Formal semantics of linguistics of formalized natural
    language does not have one damn thing to do with numbers.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_grammar

    I avoided all of those big words so that I would not make
    everyone here look like a complete ignoramus.


    Saying "Montague grammar" picks up "material implication"
    and "ex falso quodlibet" a.k.a. "principle of explosion",
    so, it's your own foot you're shooting.


    Not when you think these things all the way through.

    Instead here there are considered "Herbrand semantics".
    Montague was just a party-boy flake in the orbit of Tarski.




    Gemini thinks that you are very good with computation.
    It looked up your professional work. If this is so and
    not just bullshit then you could actually understand the
    details of the structure of the Cyc Project and the CycL
    language.


    I'm a qualified and experienced professional programmer/analyst,
    various knowledge inference formats like KIF, RDF, OWL, or
    basically usually often enough about 3-tuples of relation
    yet for the temporal introducing 5-tuples, are almost never
    found salient in the koolaid and the firehose.

    That said, ontology is simply organization in knowledge,
    it's that simple, not a guarantee itself.



    Yes so you can understand these things. A properly
    formed knowledge ontology that is sufficiently
    populated does directly facilitate making some
    subset of all truth expressed in language computable.

    The relative taste of strawberries to blueberries
    cannot be expressed in language.




    Ah, the old "one step forward, two steps back" -
    the story being told is old as dirt, the Pythagoreans
    told it when their universe of magnitudes was finite ratios,
    which makes a lot of sense when there are infinite integers.

    The "the relative taste of strawberries to blueberries"
    _is_ already an expression in language.


    Strawberries are more tart while blueberries lucious,
    though both strawberries and blueberries are a bit tart
    and lucious, though usually prepared blueberries need
    less sugar, strawberries have more vitamin C while blueberries
    have more anthocyanins, while both are nutritious and with
    also non-nutritional value, less people are allergic to blueberries,
    any matter of taste can be expressed in terms of strawberries and blueberries, in a limited sense.


    "Colorless green" is an actual account of the dual-tri-stimulus
    colorspace of the chromatic and prismatic that monochromatic:
    an account that usual textbooks don't have.


    I'm a researcher in Foundations not just a "full-stack enterprise dev".



    Foundations of math of numbers not Foundations
    of every aspect of generic truth itself.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Wed Jul 15 20:18:08 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 07/15/2026 01:56 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/15/2026 3:03 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 07:12 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 9:03 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 05:38 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 7:29 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 03:49 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 5:38 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 02:56 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 4:39 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 05:07 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    [ Followup-To: set ]

    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 7/13/2026 4:09 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:

    [ .... ]

    That remains to be shown.

    Maybe you think that actual facts might not be true?

    Facts are true by definition. A "complete set of atomic >>>>>>>>>>>>> facts"
    is not
    even conceivable. We know such a set, if consistent, would be >>>>>>>>>>>>> incomplete by G||del's Incompleteness Theorem. So such a set >>>>>>>>>>>>> cannot
    exist.


    All undecidability is unmasked as semantic
    incoherence or outside of the body of knowledge.

    Meaningless word salad.

    When we stupidly have fucked up ways for determining
    what is true we get fucked up results.

    You should revert to expressing your thoughts in less offensive >>>>>>>>>>> terms.

    P reo Q means syntactic derivation implements semantic >>>>>>>>>>>> entailment encoded in syntactically the language.

    It doesn't.

    This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Grammatically ill-formed. But it's probably wrong, anyway. >>>>>>>>>>>
    By this measure PA reo G is simply false.

    You aren't using that symbol with its standard meaning, so >>>>>>>>>>> there's
    nothing to reply to.

    That you make sure to refuse to begin to understand
    any of the details of this is no rebuttal at all.

    You should learn G||del's Incompleteness Theorem, accept that >>>>>>>>>>> it is
    proven, and amend your somewhat ridiculous claims to take it >>>>>>>>>>> into
    account.

    Since you refuse to accept any of the definitions
    of my terms I can't begin to show how they work.

    You're attempting to replace precise terms of the art with vague >>>>>>>>>>> half-definitions, probably to be able to equivocate, and never >>>>>>>>>>> to be
    pinned down to a precise meaning.

    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott



    That seems one of the problems with something like "Hobbes' >>>>>>>>>> nominalism",
    which beyond "extreme fictionalism" is like "the Red Queen's" >>>>>>>>>> entirely
    caprious judgment, one wondering whether Carroll's court-erie >>>>>>>>>> is a
    parody of Hobbes.

    Here instead there's perceived the, "requirements and
    desiderata",
    of the theory, before getting into "architecture and
    implementation",
    of a, "extreme rationalism", into thinks like "axiomless
    arithmetic"
    and "axiomless geometry" that gives both the Archimedean and >>>>>>>>>> Euclidean
    and the sub- and super- Archimedean and Euclidean, about
    deconstructive
    accounts then about what arrives for universals.

    Carroll or Dodgson's mathematical infinitesimals are rather as >>>>>>>>>> like the
    cumulative hierarchy of ordinals in reverse, ....


    P <semantically entails> Q means syntactic derivation
    implements semantic entailment encoded in syntactically
    the language. This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Very difficult can understand yet the above completely
    proves my whole point. As a concrete example of semantic
    entailment specified syntactically we have expressions
    written in the CycL ontology language.

    To everyone that cannot possibly begin to understand
    anything about semantics outside of model theory, you
    just don't have a single clue about the actual full
    field of semantics.


    Doesn't say much, that's just the definition of entailment,
    and omits monotonicity, which makes for the not the inconstancy. >>>>>>>>


    It all a {meaning of words} thing that everyone here
    cannot begin to understand because they are totally
    stuck on numbers.

    Formal semantics of linguistics of formalized natural
    language does not have one damn thing to do with numbers.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_grammar

    I avoided all of those big words so that I would not make
    everyone here look like a complete ignoramus.


    Saying "Montague grammar" picks up "material implication"
    and "ex falso quodlibet" a.k.a. "principle of explosion",
    so, it's your own foot you're shooting.


    Not when you think these things all the way through.

    Instead here there are considered "Herbrand semantics".
    Montague was just a party-boy flake in the orbit of Tarski.




    Gemini thinks that you are very good with computation.
    It looked up your professional work. If this is so and
    not just bullshit then you could actually understand the
    details of the structure of the Cyc Project and the CycL
    language.


    I'm a qualified and experienced professional programmer/analyst,
    various knowledge inference formats like KIF, RDF, OWL, or
    basically usually often enough about 3-tuples of relation
    yet for the temporal introducing 5-tuples, are almost never
    found salient in the koolaid and the firehose.

    That said, ontology is simply organization in knowledge,
    it's that simple, not a guarantee itself.



    Yes so you can understand these things. A properly
    formed knowledge ontology that is sufficiently
    populated does directly facilitate making some
    subset of all truth expressed in language computable.

    The relative taste of strawberries to blueberries
    cannot be expressed in language.




    Ah, the old "one step forward, two steps back" -
    the story being told is old as dirt, the Pythagoreans
    told it when their universe of magnitudes was finite ratios,
    which makes a lot of sense when there are infinite integers.

    The "the relative taste of strawberries to blueberries"
    _is_ already an expression in language.


    Strawberries are more tart while blueberries lucious,
    though both strawberries and blueberries are a bit tart
    and lucious, though usually prepared blueberries need
    less sugar, strawberries have more vitamin C while blueberries
    have more anthocyanins, while both are nutritious and with
    also non-nutritional value, less people are allergic to blueberries,
    any matter of taste can be expressed in terms of strawberries and
    blueberries, in a limited sense.


    "Colorless green" is an actual account of the dual-tri-stimulus
    colorspace of the chromatic and prismatic that monochromatic:
    an account that usual textbooks don't have.


    I'm a researcher in Foundations not just a "full-stack enterprise dev".



    Foundations of math of numbers not Foundations
    of every aspect of generic truth itself.


    No, actually capital-T Truth itself is part of
    Foundations: A Theory of Truth.


    The ancient tradition is "aletheia: the discovery of truth",
    not its invention.

    Research in Foundations: logical, mathematical, then for science
    and physics: is about the truth, and in capital-F Foundations:
    capital-T Truth.


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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Thu Jul 16 10:42:00 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 15/07/2026 23:56, olcott wrote:
    On 7/15/2026 3:03 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 07:12 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 9:03 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 05:38 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 7:29 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 03:49 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 5:38 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 02:56 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/14/2026 4:39 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/14/2026 05:07 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    [ Followup-To: set ]

    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 7/13/2026 4:09 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    In comp.theory olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:

    [ .... ]

    That remains to be shown.

    Maybe you think that actual facts might not be true?

    Facts are true by definition.-a A "complete set of atomic >>>>>>>>>>>>> facts"
    is not
    even conceivable.-a We know such a set, if consistent, would be >>>>>>>>>>>>> incomplete by G||del's Incompleteness Theorem.-a So such a set >>>>>>>>>>>>> cannot
    exist.


    All undecidability is unmasked as semantic
    incoherence or outside of the body of knowledge.

    Meaningless word salad.

    When we stupidly have fucked up ways for determining
    what is true we get fucked up results.

    You should revert to expressing your thoughts in less offensive >>>>>>>>>>> terms.

    P reo Q means syntactic derivation implements semantic >>>>>>>>>>>> entailment encoded in syntactically the language.

    It doesn't.

    This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Grammatically ill-formed.-a But it's probably wrong, anyway. >>>>>>>>>>>
    By this measure PA reo G is simply false.

    You aren't using that symbol with its standard meaning, so >>>>>>>>>>> there's
    nothing to reply to.

    That you make sure to refuse to begin to understand
    any of the details of this is no rebuttal at all.

    You should learn G||del's Incompleteness Theorem, accept that >>>>>>>>>>> it is
    proven, and amend your somewhat ridiculous claims to take it >>>>>>>>>>> into
    account.

    Since you refuse to accept any of the definitions
    of my terms I can't begin to show how they work.

    You're attempting to replace precise terms of the art with vague >>>>>>>>>>> half-definitions, probably to be able to equivocate, and never >>>>>>>>>>> to be
    pinned down to a precise meaning.

    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott



    That seems one of the problems with something like "Hobbes' >>>>>>>>>> nominalism",
    which beyond "extreme fictionalism" is like "the Red Queen's" >>>>>>>>>> entirely
    caprious judgment, one wondering whether Carroll's court-erie >>>>>>>>>> is a
    parody of Hobbes.

    Here instead there's perceived the, "requirements and
    desiderata",
    of the theory, before getting into "architecture and
    implementation",
    of a, "extreme rationalism", into thinks like "axiomless
    arithmetic"
    and "axiomless geometry" that gives both the Archimedean and >>>>>>>>>> Euclidean
    and the sub- and super- Archimedean and Euclidean, about
    deconstructive
    accounts then about what arrives for universals.

    Carroll or Dodgson's mathematical infinitesimals are rather as >>>>>>>>>> like the
    cumulative hierarchy of ordinals in reverse, ....


    P <semantically entails> Q means syntactic derivation
    implements semantic entailment encoded in syntactically
    the language. This is the only inference steps allowed.

    Very difficult can understand yet the above completely
    proves my whole point. As a concrete example of semantic
    entailment specified syntactically we have expressions
    written in the CycL ontology language.

    To everyone that cannot possibly begin to understand
    anything about semantics outside of model theory, you
    just don't have a single clue about the actual full
    field of semantics.


    Doesn't say much, that's just the definition of entailment,
    and omits monotonicity, which makes for the not the inconstancy. >>>>>>>>


    It all a {meaning of words} thing that everyone here
    cannot begin to understand because they are totally
    stuck on numbers.

    Formal semantics of linguistics of formalized natural
    language does not have one damn thing to do with numbers.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_grammar

    I avoided all of those big words so that I would not make
    everyone here look like a complete ignoramus.


    Saying "Montague grammar" picks up "material implication"
    and "ex falso quodlibet" a.k.a. "principle of explosion",
    so, it's your own foot you're shooting.


    Not when you think these things all the way through.

    Instead here there are considered "Herbrand semantics".
    Montague was just a party-boy flake in the orbit of Tarski.




    Gemini thinks that you are very good with computation.
    It looked up your professional work. If this is so and
    not just bullshit then you could actually understand the
    details of the structure of the Cyc Project and the CycL
    language.


    I'm a qualified and experienced professional programmer/analyst,
    various knowledge inference formats like KIF, RDF, OWL, or
    basically usually often enough about 3-tuples of relation
    yet for the temporal introducing 5-tuples, are almost never
    found salient in the koolaid and the firehose.

    That said, ontology is simply organization in knowledge,
    it's that simple, not a guarantee itself.



    Yes so you can understand these things. A properly
    formed knowledge ontology that is sufficiently
    populated does directly facilitate making some
    subset of all truth expressed in language computable.

    The relative taste of strawberries to blueberries
    cannot be expressed in language.




    Ah, the old "one step forward, two steps back" -
    the story being told is old as dirt, the Pythagoreans
    told it when their universe of magnitudes was finite ratios,
    which makes a lot of sense when there are infinite integers.

    The "the relative taste of strawberries to blueberries"
    _is_ already an expression in language.


    Strawberries are more tart while blueberries lucious,
    though both strawberries and blueberries are a bit tart
    and lucious, though usually prepared blueberries need
    less sugar, strawberries have more vitamin C while blueberries
    have more anthocyanins, while both are nutritious and with
    also non-nutritional value, less people are allergic to blueberries,
    any matter of taste can be expressed in terms of strawberries and
    blueberries, in a limited sense.


    "Colorless green" is an actual account of the dual-tri-stimulus
    colorspace of the chromatic and prismatic that monochromatic:
    an account that usual textbooks don't have.


    I'm a researcher in Foundations not just a "full-stack enterprise dev".



    Foundations of math of numbers not Foundations
    of every aspect of generic truth itself.

    Foundations are simple:
    From nothing you can construct the empty set, which is the prototype
    of the natural number zero. For every other natural number you can
    construct the prototype from the prototype of the prvious one as the
    union of the prefious prototype and the singlet set containing the
    previous set. There are well known (and other) ways to construct the
    integers from then natual numbers, the rational numbers from the
    integers, and the real numbers from rationals. From reals one can
    construct the unverse and all its contents and their behaviours.
    --
    Mikko

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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to sci.logic on Thu Jul 16 08:08:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 07/16/2026 12:42 AM, Mikko wrote:

    Foundations are simple:
    From nothing you can construct the empty set, which is the prototype
    of the natural number zero. For every other natural number you can
    construct the prototype from the prototype of the prvious one as the
    union of the prefious prototype and the singlet set containing the
    previous set. There are well known (and other) ways to construct the
    integers from then natual numbers, the rational numbers from the
    integers, and the real numbers from rationals. From reals one can
    construct the unverse and all its contents and their behaviours.



    "Nothing" and "the empty set" aren't necessarily the same,
    while it may be agreeable that "the fundamental question of
    meta-physics" is "why is there something rather than nothing".


    The usual notions of "empty set" and "inductive set" are
    given as introducing constants into the language of ZF set theory,
    yet, besides that expansion-of-comprehension, then ZF's are also restriction-of-comprehension, "ordinary empty set" and "ordinary
    inductive set", when for example the empty set and the inductive
    set aren't unique, and there are "extra-ordinary" empty and
    inductive sets, that quantification over elements finds.


    Then, the "Void" and "Universe" are "complementary duals",
    reflecting on philosophy's usual account of "Nothing" and
    "Being" as the considerations of those.


    Foundations _are_ simple: in fact so simple that then how
    they arrive and making for the approfondissement of the
    objects of logic and mathematics, involves super-classical
    reasoning quite directly then making for paradox-free reason
    of the completeness in repleteness of infinity and continuity.


    "A-Theory" it's called here, "theatheory", a "Null Axiom Theory".


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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to sci.logic on Thu Jul 16 08:25:35 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 07/16/2026 08:08 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/16/2026 12:42 AM, Mikko wrote:

    Foundations are simple:
    From nothing you can construct the empty set, which is the prototype
    of the natural number zero. For every other natural number you can
    construct the prototype from the prototype of the prvious one as the
    union of the prefious prototype and the singlet set containing the
    previous set. There are well known (and other) ways to construct the
    integers from then natual numbers, the rational numbers from the
    integers, and the real numbers from rationals. From reals one can
    construct the unverse and all its contents and their behaviours.



    "Nothing" and "the empty set" aren't necessarily the same,
    while it may be agreeable that "the fundamental question of
    meta-physics" is "why is there something rather than nothing".


    The usual notions of "empty set" and "inductive set" are
    given as introducing constants into the language of ZF set theory,
    yet, besides that expansion-of-comprehension, then ZF's are also restriction-of-comprehension, "ordinary empty set" and "ordinary
    inductive set", when for example the empty set and the inductive
    set aren't unique, and there are "extra-ordinary" empty and
    inductive sets, that quantification over elements finds.


    Then, the "Void" and "Universe" are "complementary duals",
    reflecting on philosophy's usual account of "Nothing" and
    "Being" as the considerations of those.


    Foundations _are_ simple: in fact so simple that then how
    they arrive and making for the approfondissement of the
    objects of logic and mathematics, involves super-classical
    reasoning quite directly then making for paradox-free reason
    of the completeness in repleteness of infinity and continuity.


    "A-Theory" it's called here, "theatheory", a "Null Axiom Theory".



    "Being" and "Nothing", or "Sein" and "Nichtes",
    these are the usual premier concepts in philosophy,
    since the ancient Greeks with "Being: no Nothing",
    then Hegel with "Nothing and Being", that then the
    20'th century arrived at "existentialism and nihilism",
    when they are flip sides of a coin each other themselves.


    It's called canon, we already have one.


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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Thu Jul 16 14:00:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 07/16/2026 08:25 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/16/2026 08:08 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/16/2026 12:42 AM, Mikko wrote:

    Foundations are simple:
    From nothing you can construct the empty set, which is the prototype
    of the natural number zero. For every other natural number you can
    construct the prototype from the prototype of the prvious one as the
    union of the prefious prototype and the singlet set containing the
    previous set. There are well known (and other) ways to construct the
    integers from then natual numbers, the rational numbers from the
    integers, and the real numbers from rationals. From reals one can
    construct the unverse and all its contents and their behaviours.



    "Nothing" and "the empty set" aren't necessarily the same,
    while it may be agreeable that "the fundamental question of
    meta-physics" is "why is there something rather than nothing".


    The usual notions of "empty set" and "inductive set" are
    given as introducing constants into the language of ZF set theory,
    yet, besides that expansion-of-comprehension, then ZF's are also
    restriction-of-comprehension, "ordinary empty set" and "ordinary
    inductive set", when for example the empty set and the inductive
    set aren't unique, and there are "extra-ordinary" empty and
    inductive sets, that quantification over elements finds.


    Then, the "Void" and "Universe" are "complementary duals",
    reflecting on philosophy's usual account of "Nothing" and
    "Being" as the considerations of those.


    Foundations _are_ simple: in fact so simple that then how
    they arrive and making for the approfondissement of the
    objects of logic and mathematics, involves super-classical
    reasoning quite directly then making for paradox-free reason
    of the completeness in repleteness of infinity and continuity.


    "A-Theory" it's called here, "theatheory", a "Null Axiom Theory".



    "Being" and "Nothing", or "Sein" and "Nichtes",
    these are the usual premier concepts in philosophy,
    since the ancient Greeks with "Being: no Nothing",
    then Hegel with "Nothing and Being", that then the
    20'th century arrived at "existentialism and nihilism",
    when they are flip sides of a coin each other themselves.


    It's called canon, we already have one.



    Researchers in Foundations since forever usually at least
    once arrive at Mathematical Platonism that the universe of
    mathematical objects with infinity and continuity exists
    and that this brings along logic also, thus resulting for
    a sort of "axiomless geometry" and "axiomless arithmetic"
    to subsume and be sublime to "Archimedean arithmetic"
    and "Euclidean geometry", then for algebra and DesCartes,
    the arithmetic and geometry and algebra and analysis.


    This is among reasons why "old wrapped as new" gets old.

    This is the plain old plain old,
    "Hilbert's Infinite, Living, Working Museum of Mathematics",
    now with "the Great Atlas of Mathematical Independence"
    in "paradox-free reason".



    This sort of holistic dual monism is considered a more thorough
    and mature account opposed to the fragmented synthetic pluralism
    of the nominalist fictionalist variety for a mathematics replete
    with infinity and continuity.


    For example, bringing Pythagoreanism and Cantorianism back
    together again, the Atlas makes bridges (ponts, analytical
    bridges) for this.

    Otherwise those competing claims of opposing views only see
    each other as "Giant Monsters of Mathematical Independence".


    That there's a universe at all implies that they're wrong,
    or, generously, "incomplete".




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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Thu Jul 16 15:28:02 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 07/16/2026 02:00 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/16/2026 08:25 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/16/2026 08:08 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/16/2026 12:42 AM, Mikko wrote:

    Foundations are simple:
    From nothing you can construct the empty set, which is the prototype
    of the natural number zero. For every other natural number you can
    construct the prototype from the prototype of the prvious one as the
    union of the prefious prototype and the singlet set containing the
    previous set. There are well known (and other) ways to construct the
    integers from then natual numbers, the rational numbers from the
    integers, and the real numbers from rationals. From reals one can
    construct the unverse and all its contents and their behaviours.



    "Nothing" and "the empty set" aren't necessarily the same,
    while it may be agreeable that "the fundamental question of
    meta-physics" is "why is there something rather than nothing".


    The usual notions of "empty set" and "inductive set" are
    given as introducing constants into the language of ZF set theory,
    yet, besides that expansion-of-comprehension, then ZF's are also
    restriction-of-comprehension, "ordinary empty set" and "ordinary
    inductive set", when for example the empty set and the inductive
    set aren't unique, and there are "extra-ordinary" empty and
    inductive sets, that quantification over elements finds.


    Then, the "Void" and "Universe" are "complementary duals",
    reflecting on philosophy's usual account of "Nothing" and
    "Being" as the considerations of those.


    Foundations _are_ simple: in fact so simple that then how
    they arrive and making for the approfondissement of the
    objects of logic and mathematics, involves super-classical
    reasoning quite directly then making for paradox-free reason
    of the completeness in repleteness of infinity and continuity.


    "A-Theory" it's called here, "theatheory", a "Null Axiom Theory".



    "Being" and "Nothing", or "Sein" and "Nichtes",
    these are the usual premier concepts in philosophy,
    since the ancient Greeks with "Being: no Nothing",
    then Hegel with "Nothing and Being", that then the
    20'th century arrived at "existentialism and nihilism",
    when they are flip sides of a coin each other themselves.


    It's called canon, we already have one.



    Researchers in Foundations since forever usually at least
    once arrive at Mathematical Platonism that the universe of
    mathematical objects with infinity and continuity exists
    and that this brings along logic also, thus resulting for
    a sort of "axiomless geometry" and "axiomless arithmetic"
    to subsume and be sublime to "Archimedean arithmetic"
    and "Euclidean geometry", then for algebra and DesCartes,
    the arithmetic and geometry and algebra and analysis.


    This is among reasons why "old wrapped as new" gets old.

    This is the plain old plain old,
    "Hilbert's Infinite, Living, Working Museum of Mathematics",
    now with "the Great Atlas of Mathematical Independence"
    in "paradox-free reason".



    This sort of holistic dual monism is considered a more thorough
    and mature account opposed to the fragmented synthetic pluralism
    of the nominalist fictionalist variety for a mathematics replete
    with infinity and continuity.


    For example, bringing Pythagoreanism and Cantorianism back
    together again, the Atlas makes bridges (ponts, analytical
    bridges) for this.

    Otherwise those competing claims of opposing views only see
    each other as "Giant Monsters of Mathematical Independence".


    That there's a universe at all implies that they're wrong,
    or, generously, "incomplete".





    In theatheory there are a number of claims made.

    It's its own meta-theory, it's true, it's complete,
    it's consistent, it's constant consistent complete
    and concrete, it's got de res de racio de natura de re,
    it makes axiomless logic, mathematics, and perhaps physics,
    it's real, it's dually-self-infraconsistent while paradox-free
    and extra-ordinary, it's common-sensical, these kinds of things.

    It interprets proof and model theory, with logic and mathematics,
    these kinds of things.


    It's canonical, ....


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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to sci.logic on Fri Jul 17 09:20:33 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 16/07/2026 18:08, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/16/2026 12:42 AM, Mikko wrote:

    Foundations are simple:
    -aFrom nothing you can construct the empty set, which is the prototype
    of the natural number zero. For every other natural number you can
    construct the prototype from the prototype of the prvious one as the
    union of the prefious prototype and the singlet set containing the
    previous set. There are well known (and other) ways to construct the
    integers from then natual numbers, the rational numbers from the
    integers, and the real numbers from rationals. From reals one can
    construct the unverse and all its contents and their behaviours.

    "Nothing" and "the empty set" aren't necessarily the same,

    They are necessarily different. In particuar, the set that contains
    nothing else than the empty set is a singlet set.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to sci.logic on Mon Jul 20 07:24:00 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 07/16/2026 11:20 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 16/07/2026 18:08, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 07/16/2026 12:42 AM, Mikko wrote:

    Foundations are simple:
    From nothing you can construct the empty set, which is the prototype
    of the natural number zero. For every other natural number you can
    construct the prototype from the prototype of the prvious one as the
    union of the prefious prototype and the singlet set containing the
    previous set. There are well known (and other) ways to construct the
    integers from then natual numbers, the rational numbers from the
    integers, and the real numbers from rationals. From reals one can
    construct the unverse and all its contents and their behaviours.

    "Nothing" and "the empty set" aren't necessarily the same,

    They are necessarily different. In particuar, the set that contains
    nothing else than the empty set is a singlet set.



    That's a good point, about constructing the empty set.

    Then about "From nothing you can construct the empty set",
    how is "set theory" not "nothing"?


    Here it's that from a "nothing" you can recognize an "everything"
    including recognizing that they would be indistinguishable, then
    that it doesn't matter since either way then the consideration
    arrives at both "nothing" and "everything" existing.


    "Nothing" and "empty set" aren't necessarily the same the
    way they are having the context where their constructions result.
    Then usually enough in ordinary accounts they're not different:
    the context the implications all their structure in relation.



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