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    From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory,comp.lang.prolog on Sun Jan 18 13:18:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 17/01/2026 17:54, olcott wrote:
    On 1/17/2026 3:46 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 15/01/2026 22:37, olcott wrote:
    On 1/15/2026 4:02 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 15/01/2026 07:30, olcott wrote:
    On 1/14/2026 9:44 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 1/14/26 4:36 PM, olcott wrote:
    Interpreting incompleteness as a gap between mathematical truth >>>>>>> and proof depends on truth-conditional semantics; once this is
    replaced by proof-theoretic semantics a framework not yet
    sufficiently developed at the time of G||delrCOs proof the notion of >>>>>>> such a gap becomes unfounded.


    But that isn't what Incompleteness is about, so you are just
    showing your ignorance of the meaning of words.

    You can't just "change" the meaning of truth in a system.


    Yet that is what happens when you replace the foundational basis
    from truth-conditional semantics to proof-theoretic semantics.

    G||del constructed a sentence that is correct by the rules of first
    order Peano arithmetic

    within truth conditional semantics and non-well-founded
    in proof theoretic semantics. All of PA can be fully
    expressed in proof theoretic semantics. Even G can be
    expressed, yet rejected as semantically non-well-founded.

    G||del's sentence is a sentence of Peano arithmetic so its primary
    meaning is its arithmetic meaning. Peano's postulates fail to
    capture all of its arithmetic meaning but it is possible to add
    other postulates without introducing inconsistencies to make
    G||del's sentence provable in a stronger theory of natural numbers.

    Plain PA has no internal notion of truth; any truth
    talk is metarCatheoretic.

    Of course. Truth is a meta-theoretic concept. The corresponding concept
    about an uninterpreted theory is theorem.

    The statement that there is a sentence that is neither provable nor the negation of a provable sentence does not refer to truth.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy on Sun Jan 18 06:53:52 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 1/18/2026 5:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 17/01/2026 17:54, olcott wrote:
    On 1/17/2026 3:46 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 15/01/2026 22:37, olcott wrote:
    On 1/15/2026 4:02 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 15/01/2026 07:30, olcott wrote:
    On 1/14/2026 9:44 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 1/14/26 4:36 PM, olcott wrote:
    Interpreting incompleteness as a gap between mathematical truth >>>>>>>> and proof depends on truth-conditional semantics; once this is >>>>>>>> replaced by proof-theoretic semantics a framework not yet
    sufficiently developed at the time of G||delrCOs proof the notion >>>>>>>> of such a gap becomes unfounded.


    But that isn't what Incompleteness is about, so you are just
    showing your ignorance of the meaning of words.

    You can't just "change" the meaning of truth in a system.


    Yet that is what happens when you replace the foundational basis
    from truth-conditional semantics to proof-theoretic semantics.

    G||del constructed a sentence that is correct by the rules of first
    order Peano arithmetic

    within truth conditional semantics and non-well-founded
    in proof theoretic semantics. All of PA can be fully
    expressed in proof theoretic semantics. Even G can be
    expressed, yet rejected as semantically non-well-founded.

    G||del's sentence is a sentence of Peano arithmetic so its primary
    meaning is its arithmetic meaning. Peano's postulates fail to
    capture all of its arithmetic meaning but it is possible to add
    other postulates without introducing inconsistencies to make
    G||del's sentence provable in a stronger theory of natural numbers.

    Plain PA has no internal notion of truth; any truth
    talk is metarCatheoretic.

    Of course. Truth is a meta-theoretic concept. The corresponding concept
    about an uninterpreted theory is theorem.

    The statement that there is a sentence that is neither provable nor the negation of a provable sentence does not refer to truth.


    For nearly a century, discussions of arithmetic have quietly
    relied on a fundamental conflation: the idea that
    rCLtrue in arithmeticrCY meant rCLtrue in the standard model of rao.rCY
    But PA itself has no truth predicate, no internal semantics,
    and no mechanism for assigning truth values. So what was
    called rCLtrue in arithmeticrCY was always meta-theoretic truth
    about arithmetic, imported from an external model and never
    grounded inside PA.

    This conflation was rarely acknowledged, and it shaped the
    interpretation of G||delrCOs incompleteness theorems, independence
    results like Goodstein and ParisrCoHarrington, and the entire
    discourse around rCLtrue but unprovablerCY statements.

    My work begins by correcting this foundational error with
    Proof theoretic semantics and non-well-founded is construed
    as not a truth bearer.

    PA has no internal truth predicate, so classical claims of
    rCLtrue in arithmeticrCY were always meta-theoretic. My system
    introduces a truth predicate whose meaning is anchored
    entirely in PArCOs axioms and inference rules, not in external
    models. Any statement whose meaning requires meta-theoretic
    interpretation or non-well-founded self-reference is rejected
    as outside the domain of PA. This yields a coherent, internal
    notion of truth in arithmetic for the first time.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott<br><br>

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

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy on Mon Jan 19 10:35:15 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 18/01/2026 14:53, olcott wrote:
    On 1/18/2026 5:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 17/01/2026 17:54, olcott wrote:
    On 1/17/2026 3:46 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 15/01/2026 22:37, olcott wrote:
    On 1/15/2026 4:02 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 15/01/2026 07:30, olcott wrote:
    On 1/14/2026 9:44 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 1/14/26 4:36 PM, olcott wrote:
    Interpreting incompleteness as a gap between mathematical truth >>>>>>>>> and proof depends on truth-conditional semantics; once this is >>>>>>>>> replaced by proof-theoretic semantics a framework not yet
    sufficiently developed at the time of G||delrCOs proof the notion >>>>>>>>> of such a gap becomes unfounded.


    But that isn't what Incompleteness is about, so you are just
    showing your ignorance of the meaning of words.

    You can't just "change" the meaning of truth in a system.


    Yet that is what happens when you replace the foundational basis >>>>>>> from truth-conditional semantics to proof-theoretic semantics.

    G||del constructed a sentence that is correct by the rules of first >>>>>> order Peano arithmetic

    within truth conditional semantics and non-well-founded
    in proof theoretic semantics. All of PA can be fully
    expressed in proof theoretic semantics. Even G can be
    expressed, yet rejected as semantically non-well-founded.

    G||del's sentence is a sentence of Peano arithmetic so its primary
    meaning is its arithmetic meaning. Peano's postulates fail to
    capture all of its arithmetic meaning but it is possible to add
    other postulates without introducing inconsistencies to make
    G||del's sentence provable in a stronger theory of natural numbers.

    Plain PA has no internal notion of truth; any truth
    talk is metarCatheoretic.

    Of course. Truth is a meta-theoretic concept. The corresponding concept
    about an uninterpreted theory is theorem.

    The statement that there is a sentence that is neither provable nor the
    negation of a provable sentence does not refer to truth.

    For nearly a century, discussions of arithmetic have quietly
    relied on a fundamental conflation: the idea that
    rCLtrue in arithmeticrCY meant rCLtrue in the standard model of rao.rCY

    There is no "standard model of N". The symbol "N" is not a name of any
    theory of arithmetic. It is used as the name of the set of natural
    numbers or the set of sets that represent the natural numbers.

    THe term "arithmetic" means the same as "the standard model of a theory
    of arithmetic". The latter expression is rarely used except when talking
    about some specific theory.
    --
    Mikko
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