• Simplifying the Church / Turing thesis

    From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Fri May 8 11:58:06 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known?

    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, as >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the definition of Undecidability ia based on there being a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> coherent answer, just not one that can be determined by a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct.

    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as the >>>>>>>>>>>>> basic halting problem) involves a situations that have _no_ >>>>>>>>>>>>> coherent answer, not just one that can be known by not >>>>>>>>>>>>> computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. An >>>>>>>>>>>> universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>> halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same input >>>>>>>>>>>> as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some input >>>>>>>>>>>> with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject some >>>>>>>>>>>> input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt.

    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to put >>>>>>>>>>> the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the Nth >>>>>>>>>>> digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines nor digit >>>>>>>>>> positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the diagonal >>>>>>>>> because of the paradox that ensues when naively running the >>>>>>>>> classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a number >>>>>>>> that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you can >>>>>>>> use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing
    machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have defined >>>> it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across circle-
    free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper, defined at the
    bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.
    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Fri May 8 10:13:50 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known?

    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the definition of Undecidability ia based on there being >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a coherent answer, just not one that can be determined by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct.

    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> basic halting problem) involves a situations that have >>>>>>>>>>>>>> _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be known by >>>>>>>>>>>>>> not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. An >>>>>>>>>>>>> universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>>> halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some input >>>>>>>>>>>>> with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject some >>>>>>>>>>>>> input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt.

    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to put >>>>>>>>>>>> the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the Nth >>>>>>>>>>>> digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines nor digit >>>>>>>>>>> positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the
    diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively
    running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a
    number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing
    machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have defined >>>>> it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across circle-
    free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper, defined at the
    bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string transformations
    to decide that DD does in fact halt
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the lil crank that could

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Fri May 8 12:35:41 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/8/2026 12:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known?

    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the definition of Undecidability ia based on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being a coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct.

    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> basic halting problem) involves a situations that have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be known by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. An >>>>>>>>>>>>>> universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>> halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some input >>>>>>>>>>>>>> with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt.

    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to >>>>>>>>>>>>> put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the >>>>>>>>>>>>> Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines nor digit >>>>>>>>>>>> positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the
    diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is >>>>>>>
    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing
    machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have
    defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper, defined
    at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string transformations
    to decide that DD does in fact halt


    No one every simplified is down to its barest possible
    essence before me. Also the entire body of knowledge
    expressed in language can be encoded as finite relations
    between finite strings.

    This transforms all undecidability into
    (a) Outside of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language
    (b) Semantically incoherent relations between finite strings.
    All self-reference "paradox" is merely (b)
    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    --- Synchronet 3.22a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Fri May 8 11:40:49 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/8/26 10:35 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 12:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the definition of Undecidability ia based on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being a coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct.

    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> basic halting problem) involves a situations that have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be known by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> An universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to >>>>>>>>>>>>>> put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is >>>>>>>>
    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing >>>>>>>> machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have
    defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/ >>>>> A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper,
    defined at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string
    transformations to decide that DD does in fact halt


    No one every simplified is down to its barest possible
    essence before me. Also the entire body of knowledge
    expressed in language can be encoded as finite relations
    between finite strings.

    This transforms all undecidability into
    (a) Outside of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language

    we know DD halts polcott, so clearly not outside the body of knowledge
    that can be expressed in language

    (b) Semantically incoherent relations between finite strings.
    All self-reference "paradox" is merely (b)

    --
    hi, i'm nick!
    let's end war EfOa

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Fri May 8 14:01:37 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/8/2026 1:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 10:35 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 12:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the definition of Undecidability ia based on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being a coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the basic halting problem) involves a situations that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known by not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> An universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is >>>>>>>>>
    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing >>>>>>>>> machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have >>>>>>>> defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/ >>>>>> A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper,
    defined at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string
    transformations to decide that DD does in fact halt


    No one every simplified is down to its barest possible
    essence before me. Also the entire body of knowledge
    expressed in language can be encoded as finite relations
    between finite strings.

    This transforms all undecidability into
    (a) Outside of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language

    we know DD halts polcott, so clearly not outside the body of knowledge
    that can be expressed in language


    No it is fucked up bullshit like:
    "This sentence is not true" (see b below)

    (b) Semantically incoherent relations between finite strings.
    All self-reference "paradox" is merely (b)


    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sat May 9 11:10:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 08/05/2026 20:13, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known?

    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the definition of Undecidability ia based on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being a coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct.

    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> basic halting problem) involves a situations that have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be known by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. An >>>>>>>>>>>>>> universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>> halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some input >>>>>>>>>>>>>> with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt.

    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to >>>>>>>>>>>>> put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the >>>>>>>>>>>>> Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines nor digit >>>>>>>>>>>> positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the
    diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is >>>>>>>
    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing
    machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have
    defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper, defined
    at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string transformations
    to decide that DD does in fact halt

    You don't need much mental effort. Just run DD and see that it halts.
    --
    Mikko

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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sat May 9 11:30:43 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known?

    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the definition of Undecidability ia based on there being >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a coherent answer, just not one that can be determined by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct.

    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> basic halting problem) involves a situations that have >>>>>>>>>>>>>> _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be known by >>>>>>>>>>>>>> not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. An >>>>>>>>>>>>> universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>>> halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some input >>>>>>>>>>>>> with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject some >>>>>>>>>>>>> input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt.

    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to put >>>>>>>>>>>> the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the Nth >>>>>>>>>>>> digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines nor digit >>>>>>>>>>> positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the
    diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively
    running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a
    number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing
    machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have defined >>>>> it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across circle-
    free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper, defined at the
    bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be computed is
    in that "everything else".
    --
    Mikko

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Sat May 9 07:13:45 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known?

    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the definition of Undecidability ia based on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being a coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct.

    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> basic halting problem) involves a situations that have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be known by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. An >>>>>>>>>>>>>> universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>> halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some input >>>>>>>>>>>>>> with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt.

    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to >>>>>>>>>>>>> put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the >>>>>>>>>>>>> Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines nor digit >>>>>>>>>>>> positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the
    diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is >>>>>>>
    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing
    machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have
    defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper, defined
    at the bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be computed is
    in that "everything else".


    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true"
    that has no truth value.

    All self-reference "paradox" is equivalent to the
    Liar Paradox and can be resolved by disallowing it
    like ZFC disallowed Russell's "Paradox".

    All self-reference "paradox" has never been deep
    unsolvable enigmas. It has always only been expressions
    of language with incoherent 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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Sun May 10 10:10:26 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 09/05/2026 15:13, olcott wrote:
    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the definition of Undecidability ia based on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being a coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct.

    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> basic halting problem) involves a situations that have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be known by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> An universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to >>>>>>>>>>>>>> put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is >>>>>>>>
    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing >>>>>>>> machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have
    defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/ >>>>> A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper,
    defined at the bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be computed is
    in that "everything else".

    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true"
    that has no truth value.

    I don't think knowing the truth value of that would be useful. At least
    not for any important purpose.

    All self-reference "paradox" is equivalent to the
    Liar Paradox and can be resolved by disallowing it
    like ZFC disallowed Russell's "Paradox".

    Whether something is a self-reference depends on interpretation. In an uninterpreted formal language there are no references and therefore no self-references, which is the simplest way to avoid paradoxes by self- reference.

    Even without any self-reference a theory can be inconsistent. Russell's
    paradox is simply an inconsistency.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,comp.theory,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic,comp.ai.philosophy on Sun May 10 12:38:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/10/2026 12:27 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/10/2026 12:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 09/05/2026 15:13, olcott wrote:
    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the definition of Undecidability ia based on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being a coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the basic halting problem) involves a situations that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known by not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> An universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle-free >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is >>>>>>>>>>
    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing >>>>>>>>>> machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have >>>>>>>>> defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable
    numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper,
    defined at the bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be computed is
    in that "everything else".

    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true"
    that has no truth value.

    I don't think knowing the truth value of that would be useful. At least
    not for any important purpose.

    All self-reference "paradox" is equivalent to the
    Liar Paradox and can be resolved by disallowing it
    like ZFC disallowed Russell's "Paradox".

    Whether something is a self-reference depends on interpretation. In an
    uninterpreted formal language there are no references and therefore no
    self-references, which is the simplest way to avoid paradoxes by self-
    reference.

    Even without any self-reference a theory can be inconsistent. Russell's
    paradox is simply an inconsistency.


    Another way to look at that quantification over finitely-many elements
    brings another one, is providing "increment" or "successor" as a
    natural fact of quantification instead of it being "defined" as
    what later gives a model of Peano (or Presburger) arithmetic,
    though that those are really only models of ordinals, since
    integers themselves have the integral moduli.


    So, one way to look at that is that Russell's "paradox" or really
    any account of quantification over what would make numbers
    illustrates that numbers make more numbers.


    That quantifying over numbers brings more numbers is just a fact
    that numbers have and that the action does - then for somebody
    like Mirimanoff who simply notes that after the "ordinary",
    i.e. as by the finite ordinals, is the "extra-ordinary',


    yet, "Russell's paradox" can start with an empty set and
    find another one, that contains itself.


    That is just like a can of soup that so totally contains
    itself that it has no outside boundary: semantically incoherent.


    So, you either make for freedom of expansion of comprehension,
    and numbers aren't paradoxical, or you don't.

    Many keep the account simple with "there's no infinite".
    Here though that's considered retro-finitism after
    something like "Russell's retro-thesis" and ignorant.



    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sun May 10 13:06:52 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/8/26 12:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 1:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 10:35 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 12:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True(X) is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of Undecidability ia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> based on there being a coherent answer, just not one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that can be determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the basic halting problem) involves a situations that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known by not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> An universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle-free >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if >>>>>>>>>>>>> you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is >>>>>>>>>>
    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing >>>>>>>>>> machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have >>>>>>>>> defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable
    numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper,
    defined at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string
    transformations to decide that DD does in fact halt


    No one every simplified is down to its barest possible
    essence before me. Also the entire body of knowledge
    expressed in language can be encoded as finite relations
    between finite strings.

    This transforms all undecidability into
    (a) Outside of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language

    we know DD halts polcott, so clearly not outside the body of knowledge
    that can be expressed in language


    No it is fucked up bullshit like:
    "This sentence is not true" (see b below)

    are you saying u don't understand that DD maps to the semantic property
    of "halting" polcott??


    (b) Semantically incoherent relations between finite strings.
    All self-reference "paradox" is merely (b)



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    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the lil crank that could
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  • From phoenix@j63840576@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sun May 10 14:12:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 1:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 10:35 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 12:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True(X) is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whether
    or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of Undecidability ia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> based on there being a coherent answer, just not one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that can be determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the basic halting problem) involves a situations that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known by not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. An universalTuring machine halts with some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inputs and doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the Nth digit on this diagonal across all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> circle-free machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if >>>>>>>>>>>>>> you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But >>>>>>>>>>>> it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing >>>>>>>>>>> machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have >>>>>>>>>> defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable >>>>>>>>> numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper,
    defined at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string
    transformations to decide that DD does in fact halt


    No one every simplified is down to its barest possible
    essence before me. Also the entire body of knowledge
    expressed in language can be encoded as finite relations
    between finite strings.

    This transforms all undecidability into
    (a) Outside of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language

    we know DD halts polcott, so clearly not outside the body of
    knowledge that can be expressed in language


    No it is fucked up bullshit like:
    "This sentence is not true" (see b below)

    are you saying u don't understand that DD maps to the semantic property
    of "halting" polcott??

    No I'm saying that M/RR changes by any small movement of a pebble within
    the earth's makeup. There are millions of vehicles driving around on the earth's surface altering the calculation. What's there to pinpointing G?

    What's next, setting down an ice-cold coca-cola and marveling at
    different temperature readings upon it?
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    War in the west
    War up north
    War down south
    War War
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sun May 10 15:17:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/10/2026 3:06 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 1:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 10:35 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 12:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True(X) is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whether
    or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of Undecidability ia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> based on there being a coherent answer, just not one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that can be determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the basic halting problem) involves a situations that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known by not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. An universalTuring machine halts with some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inputs and doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> free machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if >>>>>>>>>>>>>> you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But >>>>>>>>>>>> it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing >>>>>>>>>>> machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have >>>>>>>>>> defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable >>>>>>>>> numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper,
    defined at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string
    transformations to decide that DD does in fact halt


    No one every simplified is down to its barest possible
    essence before me. Also the entire body of knowledge
    expressed in language can be encoded as finite relations
    between finite strings.

    This transforms all undecidability into
    (a) Outside of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language

    we know DD halts polcott, so clearly not outside the body of
    knowledge that can be expressed in language


    No it is fucked up bullshit like:
    "This sentence is not true" (see b below)

    are you saying u don't understand that DD maps to the semantic property
    of "halting" polcott??


    The DD input to the proof theoretic semantics halt
    prover HHH maps to recursive simulation.

    It does not matter what-the-fuck this finite string
    maps to for some other halt prover. HHH must reject
    DD as semantically incoherent.

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


    (b) Semantically incoherent relations between finite strings.
    All self-reference "paradox" is merely (b)




    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sun May 10 21:14:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/10/2026 1:12 PM, phoenix wrote:
    dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 1:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 10:35 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 12:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True(X) is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians and logicians don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whether
    or not its truth value is known an ambiguous >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> question.

    I needed to refer to unknown truth values >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> specifically
    because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of Undecidability ia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> based on there being a coherent answer, just not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> one that can be determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the basic halting problem) involves a situations >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that have _no_ coherent answer, not just one that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> can be known by not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. An universalTuring machine halts with some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inputs and doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> same input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reject some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> free machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But >>>>>>>>>>>>> it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total
    dovetailing machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you >>>>>>>>>>> have defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,. >>>>>>>>>
    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable >>>>>>>>>> numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across >>>>>>>> circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper, >>>>>>>> defined at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string
    transformations to decide that DD does in fact halt


    No one every simplified is down to its barest possible
    essence before me. Also the entire body of knowledge
    expressed in language can be encoded as finite relations
    between finite strings.

    This transforms all undecidability into
    (a) Outside of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language >>>>
    we know DD halts polcott, so clearly not outside the body of
    knowledge that can be expressed in language


    No it is fucked up bullshit like:
    "This sentence is not true" (see b below)

    are you saying u don't understand that DD maps to the semantic
    property of "halting" polcott??

    No I'm saying
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    So you are a nym shift olcott thing? Are you? phoenix?

    that M/RR changes by any small movement of a pebble within
    the earth's makeup. There are millions of vehicles driving around on the earth's surface altering the calculation. What's there to pinpointing G?

    What's next, setting down an ice-cold coca-cola and marveling at
    different temperature readings upon it?


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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Mon May 11 06:44:48 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 2:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 09/05/2026 15:13, olcott wrote:
    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True(X) is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whether
    or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of Undecidability ia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> based on there being a coherent answer, just not one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that can be determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the basic halting problem) involves a situations that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known by not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. An universalTuring machine halts with some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inputs and doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> free machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if >>>>>>>>>>>>>> you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But >>>>>>>>>>>> it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing >>>>>>>>>>> machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have >>>>>>>>>> defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable >>>>>>>>> numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper,
    defined at the bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be computed is >>>>> in that "everything else".

    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true"
    that has no truth value.

    I don't think knowing the truth value of that would be useful. At least
    not for any important purpose.

    Knowing that all undecidability is merely semantic
    incoherence enables:

    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    to be reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is merely semantic incoherence, and can't know because we already know that there is undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example the
    axiom system

    -a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as gibberish

    -a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like

    -a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong semantically incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    The truth about climate change and election fraud could
    be computed.

    Not without real world information.

    Yes, so what?
    All knowledge that can be expressed in language would
    include the exact (x,y,z) coordinates of every atom of your
    body relative to the exact center of the Earth every millisecond.
    Because this degree of detail is not physically implementable
    to implement my system we exclude most specific details. It
    is a system of general knowledge of about 200 petabytes.

    Of course you may postulate that
    the climate is immutable or that there was massimbe undetected fraud
    in the last or some earlier election but that is not what the word "knowledge" means.


    The key elements of election fraud are two things:
    (a) There was no actual evidence of election fraud
    that could have possibly changed the results.

    Even the Heritage Foundation agrees
    ---the authors of project 2025---
    Never any evidence of election fraud
    that could possibly change the results:

    1,620 total cases of election fraud in every
    election since 1981
    https://electionfraud.heritage.org/search

    If we could somehow magically increase these
    cases 15-fold to give Trump the votes he needed
    in the closest two states
    Trump was short 11,779 votes in Georgia
    Trump was short 10,457 votes in Arizona
    He would still lose the general election.

    (b) Trump exactly copied Hitler's "war propaganda
    system from chapter 6 of Hitler's Mein Kampf:

    "The receptive powers of the masses are very
    restricted, and their understanding is feeble.
    On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such
    being the case, all effective propaganda must
    be confined to a few bare essentials and those
    must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped
    formulas. These slogans should be persistently
    repeated until the very last individual has come
    to grasp the idea that has been put forward."


    -aLLMs could become reliable truth tellers.

    They don't became other than what they are made to be. IF truthfullness
    is not a design crterion it will not be a feature.

    All self-reference "paradox" is equivalent to the
    Liar Paradox and can be resolved by disallowing it
    like ZFC disallowed Russell's "Paradox".

    Whether something is a self-reference depends on interpretation. In an
    uninterpreted formal language there are no references and therefore no
    self-references, which is the simplest way to avoid paradoxes by self-
    reference.

    Even without any self-reference a theory can be inconsistent.


    Russell's paradox is simply an inconsistency.


    Likewise with all undecidability within the body
    of knowledge that can be expressed as language.

    No, per definition an inconcistency is decidable so it is not an undecidability.

    RP is merely the only instance of pathological
    self-reference (PSR) that was correctly rejected.

    Russell's paradox is not an undecidability.


    It was until ZFC refuted it.

    HP counter-example input is another instance of PSR.

    The halting problem counter-example is neither an undecidability nor an incconsistency.

    In computability theory and computational complexity
    theory, an undecidable problem is a decision problem
    for which it is proved to be impossible to construct
    an algorithm that always leads to a correct yes-or-no answer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecidable_problem

    And there is no self-reference in it. The halting

    Can a halt decider H provide a yes/no answer to the
    question: Does my input D halt? When the input D does
    the opposite of whatever answer that the halt decider
    H returns?

    problem counter-example is simply a Turing machine. A Truring machine
    cannot contain any reference to any Turing machine so it cannot contain
    a self-reference. A Turing machine is not and does not contain any claim
    so it is not and does not contain any undecidability or inconsistency.

    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to sci.logic,comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Tue May 12 10:05:21 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 2:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 09/05/2026 15:13, olcott wrote:
    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True(X) is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians and logicians don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whether
    or not its truth value is known an ambiguous >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> question.

    I needed to refer to unknown truth values >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> specifically
    because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of Undecidability ia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> based on there being a coherent answer, just not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> one that can be determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the basic halting problem) involves a situations >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that have _no_ coherent answer, not just one that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> can be known by not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. An universalTuring machine halts with some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inputs and doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> same input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reject some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> free machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But >>>>>>>>>>>>> it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total
    dovetailing machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you >>>>>>>>>>> have defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,. >>>>>>>>>
    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable >>>>>>>>>> numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across >>>>>>>> circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper, >>>>>>>> defined at the bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be useful to >>>>>> know. In particular, whether some useful function can be computed is >>>>>> in that "everything else".

    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true"
    that has no truth value.

    I don't think knowing the truth value of that would be useful. At least >>>> not for any important purpose.

    Knowing that all undecidability is merely semantic
    incoherence enables:

    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    to be reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is merely semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example the
    axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as gibberish

    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you
    posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like

    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    The truth about climate change and election fraud could
    be computed.

    Not without real world information.

    Yes, so what?

    So the biggest problem is not how to compute but how to get and verify
    the relevant real world infomration.

    All knowledge that can be expressed in language would
    include the exact (x,y,z) coordinates of every atom of your
    body relative to the exact center of the Earth every millisecond.
    Because this degree of detail is not physically implementable
    to implement my system we exclude most specific details. It
    is a system of general knowledge of about 200 petabytes.

    Of course you may postulate that
    the climate is immutable or that there was massimbe undetected fraud
    in the last or some earlier election but that is not what the word
    "knowledge" means.

    The key elements of election fraud are two things:
    (a) There was no actual evidence of election fraud
    that could have possibly changed the results.

    The key element of elction fraud is to find a vulnerability in the
    election procedure.

    All self-reference "paradox" is equivalent to the
    Liar Paradox and can be resolved by disallowing it
    like ZFC disallowed Russell's "Paradox".

    Whether something is a self-reference depends on interpretation. In an >>>> uninterpreted formal language there are no references and therefore no >>>> self-references, which is the simplest way to avoid paradoxes by self- >>>> reference.

    Even without any self-reference a theory can be inconsistent.


    Russell's paradox is simply an inconsistency.


    Likewise with all undecidability within the body
    of knowledge that can be expressed as language.

    No, per definition an inconcistency is decidable so it is not an
    undecidability.

    RP is merely the only instance of pathological
    self-reference (PSR) that was correctly rejected.

    Russell's paradox is not an undecidability.


    It was until ZFC refuted it.

    No, it never was. The possibility to decide it was always there. That
    nobody discovered it before Russell is irrelevant.

    HP counter-example input is another instance of PSR.

    The halting problem counter-example is neither an undecidability nor an
    incconsistency.

    In computability theory and computational complexity
    theory, an undecidable problem is a decision problem
    for which it is proved to be impossible to construct
    an algorithm that always leads to a correct yes-or-no answer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecidable_problem

    There is a note on the top of the page noting that the article needs
    additional citations for verification. This means that the page is
    not as relable as typical Wikipedia pages. In particular, the quoted
    text is not quite correct.

    But the quoted text is irrelevant anyway. In logic "undecidability"
    means that a sentence and its negation are unprovable in some thoery.
    Whether that impossibility is proven or can be prove is irrelevant.

    And there is no self-reference in it. The halting

    Can a halt decider H provide a yes/no answer to the
    question: Does my input D halt? When the input D does
    the opposite of whatever answer that the halt decider
    H returns?

    Anything can be said about a non-existing being and nobody can observe otherwise.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Wed May 13 06:18:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/12/2026 10:02 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-12 07:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is merely semantic >>>>> incoherence, and can't know because we already know that there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example the
    axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as gibberish

    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put side by >>> side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you
    posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like

    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong semantically >>>>> incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    I'm curious to know how you would actually address Mikko's point here.
    He's pointed out the rather obvious error in your reading comprehension,
    but you've simply glossed over the example.

    In what sense is reCxreay (xriay = yriax) "semantically incoherent"?

    Andr|-


    Decimal point versus multiplication operator?
    If it is a decimal point then it is incoherent.
    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    --- Synchronet 3.22a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,comp.theory,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Wed May 13 06:32:21 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/13/2026 4:14 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 12/05/2026 16:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 2:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 09/05/2026 15:13, olcott wrote:
    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True(X) is unknown and there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians and logicians don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> find it interesting if all you can say that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whether
    or not the truth value of the Goldbach >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> conjecture was
    known. He seemed to think that there are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> alternative
    analytical frameworks that make the question of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whether
    or not its truth value is known an ambiguous >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> question.

    I needed to refer to unknown truth values >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> specifically
    because all "undecidability" when construed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correctly
    falls into one of two categories. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of Undecidability >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ia based on there being a coherent answer, just >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not one that can be determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the basic halting problem) involves a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> situations that have _no_ coherent answer, not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> just one that can be known by not computed ... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Turing proved that there are universal Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. An universalTuring machine halts with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some inputs and doesn't halt with any other >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input. Every Turing machine that can be given the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> same input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reject some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tries to put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine as the Nth digit on this diagonal across >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all circle- free machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nor digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> naively running the classifier on the diagonal itself >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computes a number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> if you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> But it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dovetailing machine to compute turing's diagonal, >>>>>>>>>>>>>> You should not say anything about the diagonal before you >>>>>>>>>>>>>> have defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable >>>>>>>>>>>>> numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" >>>>>>>>>>> across circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the >>>>>>>>>>> paper, defined at the bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be
    useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be
    computed is
    in that "everything else".

    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true"
    that has no truth value.

    I don't think knowing the truth value of that would be useful. At >>>>>>> least
    not for any important purpose.

    Knowing that all undecidability is merely semantic
    incoherence enables:

    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    to be reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is merely semantic >>>>> incoherence, and can't know because we already know that there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example the
    axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as gibberish

    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put side by >>> side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you
    posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like

    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong semantically >>>>> incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    The truth about climate change and election fraud could
    be computed.

    Not without real world information.

    Yes, so what?

    So the biggest problem is not how to compute but how to get and verify
    the relevant real world infomration.

    A set of "atomic facts" does exist. We only nee to write> them all down.

    THat is a lot of work that can never be completed.


    It can be completed with sufficient automation.

    The place to start would be published textbooks.

    How long does it take to read all texbooks published in one year?


    IDK, an LLM might do this in five minutes.

    Then peer reviewed papers.

    Now long does it take to read all reviewed papers published in one year?

    Then published newspaper articles.

    How long does it take to read all newspaper articles publised in one
    year?


    An LLM might read everything ever published in one year.

    And what to do with the "atomic facts" that conflict each other?
    All knowledge that can be expressed in language would
    include the exact (x,y,z) coordinates of every atom of your
    body relative to the exact center of the Earth every millisecond.
    Because this degree of detail is not physically implementable
    to implement my system we exclude most specific details. It
    is a system of general knowledge of about 200 petabytes.

    Of course you may postulate that
    the climate is immutable or that there was massimbe undetected fraud >>>>> in the last or some earlier election but that is not what the word
    "knowledge" means.

    The key elements of election fraud are two things:
    (a) There was no actual evidence of election fraud
    that could have possibly changed the results.

    The key element of elction fraud is to find a vulnerability in the
    election procedure.


    There has only been 1620 total documented cases in the USA
    in the last 30 years. Every investigation into fraud by
    audits found a few more votes against Trump than prior to
    the audit. Each of the 60 election fraud cases Trump lost.
    He lost because his lawyers could not tell the wild stories
    that he was telling the public without getting themselves
    convicted of perjury.

    These these fact were unconvincing seems to prove that
    his supporters are in a cult.

    But not that there were no fraud performed skillfully enough to avoid detection. What was found was only small unintentional errors that
    nobody tried to hide.


    Likewise there is no perfect logical proof that
    can possibly exist that five minutes ago ever existed.
    It may also be the case that all of reality is entirely
    fictional.

    Within the possibly false assumption that reality is
    not fictional and five minutes ago did exist then
    Trump is merely copying Hitler's big lie about election
    fraud is as certain as certain can possibly be.

    All self-reference "paradox" is equivalent to the
    Liar Paradox and can be resolved by disallowing it
    like ZFC disallowed Russell's "Paradox".

    Whether something is a self-reference depends on interpretation. >>>>>>> In an
    uninterpreted formal language there are no references and
    therefore no
    self-references, which is the simplest way to avoid paradoxes by >>>>>>> self-
    reference.

    Even without any self-reference a theory can be inconsistent.


    Russell's paradox is simply an inconsistency.


    Likewise with all undecidability within the body
    of knowledge that can be expressed as language.

    No, per definition an inconcistency is decidable so it is not an
    undecidability.

    RP is merely the only instance of pathological
    self-reference (PSR) that was correctly rejected.

    Russell's paradox is not an undecidability.


    It was until ZFC refuted it.

    No, it never was. The possibility to decide it was always there. That
    nobody discovered it before Russell is irrelevant.

    The fact is that we did at one time have Russell's
    self reference "paradox" and we no longer has it
    because its incoherence was rejected by ZFC.

    We still have it and its relatives. The naive set theory

    has been proven stupidly incorrect.

    is still
    inconsistent. We have ZF and other new set tehories that don't
    have it. Sometimes it would be nice to have an unversal set but
    there is none in ZF.

    HP counter-example input is another instance of PSR.

    The halting problem counter-example is neither an undecidability
    nor an
    incconsistency.

    In computability theory and computational complexity
    theory, an undecidable problem is a decision problem
    for which it is proved to be impossible to construct
    an algorithm that always leads to a correct yes-or-no answer.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecidable_problem

    There is a note on the top of the page noting that the article needs
    additional citations for verification. This means that the page is
    not as relable as typical Wikipedia pages. In particular, the quoted
    text is not quite correct.

    But the quoted text is irrelevant anyway. In logic "undecidability"
    means that a sentence and its negation are unprovable in some thoery.

    When we switch the proof theoretic semantics then
    unprovable means ungrounded thus meaningless.

    When we use a theory for some serious purpose then inability to solve
    a problem means we must think harder and wider. For example, it may
    turn out that a partial solution is sufficient, or we can determine
    that our soultion method, although not proven correct, works in every
    case we have tested, so we can trust it does not fail too often.

    Going outside of PA in a separate model of PA
    has always only been a mere ruse.

    What we really need to know is not PA but the natural numbers. If
    PA does not answer some question then it is better to look for an
    asnwer elsewhere. A set theory might be a good place because an
    important use of natural numbers is cardinalities of finite sets.

    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.math on Wed May 13 09:20:58 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/13/2026 6:56 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 05:18, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:02 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-12 07:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is merely
    semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that there is >>>>>>> undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example the >>>>>>> axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as gibberish >>>>>
    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this context >>>>> where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other symbols >>>>> are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put side by >>>>> side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many safely >>>>> conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you
    posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like

    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong
    semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    I'm curious to know how you would actually address Mikko's point
    here. He's pointed out the rather obvious error in your reading
    comprehension, but you've simply glossed over the example.

    In what sense is reCxreay (xriay = yriax) "semantically incoherent"?

    Andr|-


    Decimal point versus multiplication operator?
    If it is a decimal point then it is incoherent.

    Obviously its nor a decimal point. He gave you the actual axioms which define the dot operator, so there should be no dispute as to its meaning.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is not decidable from those axioms,yet it is clearly semantically coherent.

    Andr|-


    reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is proven true by reCxreCy (xriay = yriax)
    which is proven true by the commutative property of multiplication.

    https://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/blins/classes/fall18/math105/Examples/AlgebraAxioms.pdf
    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Wed May 13 10:28:50 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/13/2026 9:38 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 08:20, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 6:56 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 05:18, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:02 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-12 07:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is merely >>>>>>>>> semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that there is >>>>>>>>> undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example the >>>>>>>>> axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as gibberish >>>>>>>
    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this context >>>>>>> where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other
    symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put >>>>>>> side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many safely >>>>>>> conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you >>>>>>> posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like

    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong
    semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    I'm curious to know how you would actually address Mikko's point
    here. He's pointed out the rather obvious error in your reading
    comprehension, but you've simply glossed over the example.

    In what sense is reCxreay (xriay = yriax) "semantically incoherent"? >>>>>
    Andr|-


    Decimal point versus multiplication operator?
    If it is a decimal point then it is incoherent.

    Obviously its nor a decimal point. He gave you the actual axioms
    which define the dot operator, so there should be no dispute as to
    its meaning.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is not decidable from those
    axioms,yet it is clearly semantically coherent.

    Andr|-


    reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is proven true by reCxreCy (xriay = yriax)
    which is proven true by the commutative property of multiplication.

    https://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/blins/classes/fall18/math105/
    Examples/AlgebraAxioms.pdf

    But then you're introducing a new axiom which isn't part of the set of axioms which he introduced.

    My thesis:
    The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed
    in language can be encoded as relations between finite strings.

    Therefore, you're not dealing with the same
    theory.

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*
    Is the scope. That some knucklehead can fail to bother to define
    that "cats are animals" so that his knucklehead formal system
    does not know this IS OFF-TOPIC.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is undecidable in the theory which he presented. Whether it is decidable in some other theory isn't really germane to the discussion.

    Andr|-

    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Wed May 13 12:59:53 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/10/2026 9:14 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 1:12 PM, phoenix wrote:
    dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 1:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 10:35 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 12:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True(X) is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians and logicians don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> was
    known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whether
    or not its truth value is known an ambiguous >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> question.

    I needed to refer to unknown truth values >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> specifically
    because all "undecidability" when construed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correctly
    falls into one of two categories. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of Undecidability >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ia based on there being a coherent answer, just >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not one that can be determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the basic halting problem) involves a situations >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that have _no_ coherent answer, not just one that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> can be known by not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. An universalTuring machine halts with some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inputs and doesn't halt with any other >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input. Every Turing machine that can be given the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> same input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reject some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> free machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> naively running the classifier on the diagonal itself >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But >>>>>>>>>>>>>> it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total
    dovetailing machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you >>>>>>>>>>>> have defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,. >>>>>>>>>>
    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable >>>>>>>>>>> numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across >>>>>>>>> circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in the paper, >>>>>>>>> defined at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string
    transformations to decide that DD does in fact halt


    No one every simplified is down to its barest possible
    essence before me. Also the entire body of knowledge
    expressed in language can be encoded as finite relations
    between finite strings.

    This transforms all undecidability into
    (a) Outside of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in
    language

    we know DD halts polcott, so clearly not outside the body of
    knowledge that can be expressed in language


    No it is fucked up bullshit like:
    "This sentence is not true" (see b below)

    are you saying u don't understand that DD maps to the semantic
    property of "halting" polcott??

    No I'm saying
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    So you are a nym shift olcott thing? Are you? phoenix?


    nym shift olcott shitter bang bang. What a joke.



    that M/RR changes by any small movement of a pebble within the earth's
    makeup. There are millions of vehicles driving around on the earth's
    surface altering the calculation. What's there to pinpointing G?

    What's next, setting down an ice-cold coca-cola and marveling at
    different temperature readings upon it?



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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Wed May 13 18:40:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 9:38 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 08:20, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 6:56 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 05:18, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:02 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-12 07:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is merely >>>>>>>>>>> semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that >>>>>>>>>>> there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example the >>>>>>>>>>> axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as gibberish >>>>>>>>>
    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this >>>>>>>>> context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other >>>>>>>>> symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put >>>>>>>>> side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many >>>>>>>>> safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you >>>>>>>>> posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like >>>>>>>>>>>
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong >>>>>>>>>>> semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    I'm curious to know how you would actually address Mikko's point >>>>>>> here. He's pointed out the rather obvious error in your reading >>>>>>> comprehension, but you've simply glossed over the example.

    In what sense is reCxreay (xriay = yriax) "semantically incoherent"? >>>>>>>
    Andr|-


    Decimal point versus multiplication operator?
    If it is a decimal point then it is incoherent.

    Obviously its nor a decimal point. He gave you the actual axioms
    which define the dot operator, so there should be no dispute as to
    its meaning.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is not decidable from those >>>>> axioms,yet it is clearly semantically coherent.

    Andr|-


    reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is proven true by reCxreCy (xriay = yriax)
    which is proven true by the commutative property of multiplication.

    https://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/blins/classes/fall18/math105/
    Examples/AlgebraAxioms.pdf

    But then you're introducing a new axiom which isn't part of the set
    of axioms which he introduced.

    My thesis:
    The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed
    in language can be encoded as relations between finite strings.

    And how 'bout them Mets?

    Therefore, you're not dealing with the same theory.

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*

    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. There's over 8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different, often
    contradictory things. And, with the exception of theorems of formal
    systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute certainty. Only
    varying degrees of certainty, but for every given fact you won't get a universal consensus on exactly how certain we are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Any rebuttal to this besides at least the attempt
    of a 100% concrete counter-example will be dismissed
    as deception.

    Formal systems operate over a *fixed* set of axioms. The set of
    knowledge is not fixed, but constantly changing. But the results you are attempting to challenge (G||dels theorem, etc.) all apply to *formal* systems based on fixed sets of axioms rather than some fluid and vaguely defined body of knowledge.


    As soon as truth theoretic semantics is utterly replaced
    with proof theoretic semantics G remains true in meta-math
    and becomes meaningless in PA.

    Is the scope. That some knucklehead can fail to bother to define
    that "cats are animals" so that his knucklehead formal system
    does not know this IS OFF-TOPIC.

    Mikko offered a concrete set of axioms and made a claim about what could
    be derived from those axioms. Neither cats nor animals were involved.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is undecidable in the theory which >>> he presented. Whether it is decidable in some other theory isn't
    really germane to the discussion.

    Andr|-

    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Wed May 13 19:45:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/13/2026 7:07 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*

    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. There's
    over 8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different, often
    contradictory things. And, with the exception of theorems of formal
    systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute certainty. Only
    varying degrees of certainty, but for every given fact you won't get
    a universal consensus on exactly how certain we are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Until you can produce this finite set of atomic facts you're all just bluster. Here's a few statements. Which would you consider atomic facts:


    I estimate that it is 200 peta bytes long.

    rCo The Universe is 14 billion years old.


    It is a fact that this it what a consensus of scientfic
    opinion currently concludes.

    rCo The Ungulates and the Carnivores form a clade.


    Gibberish to me.

    rCo Jesus Christ died for our sins.


    It is a fact that this is a core doctrine of Christianity.

    rCo Nearly 70% of the mass-energy of the universe consists of dark energy.


    IDK.

    rCo Anthropogenic climate change is currently occurring.


    This is the reason why truth must be made computable. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336568434_Severe_anthropogenic_climate_change_proven_entirely_with_verifiable_facts
    If truth is not made computable then it looks like
    greed will make humans and most of the other life
    on Earth extinct.

    rCo The Earth is 6000 years old.


    It is possible and cannot possibly be refuted with
    100% correct logical certainty that five minutes ago
    never existed.

    rCo Argentinosaurus is the largest land animal to ever have lived.


    I think that it is the blue whale.

    rCo Measles vaccine causes autism.

    rCo There exists an "island of stability" where extraheavy elements with approximately 184 neutrons will have a considerably longer half-life
    than that of the heaviest elements currently know.


    IDK.

    rCo Turing showed that halting cannot be computed.


    It seems to me that proof theoretic semantics is
    the actual way that semantics actually works thus
    truth conditional semantics has always been a
    misconception. Within PTS semantics the HP counter-example
    input is rejected as ungrounded in a halting value
    to a PTS halt prover.

    You keep falling back on extremely trivial examples which are non- controversial while failing to address how you would address claims of a non-trivial nature. All of the statements above are contentious, at
    least in some circles, so how do you decide which statements belong to
    your 'finite set of atomic facts'? If you can't explain how membership
    in this set is determined, then you've got nothing.


    At least one of the items involved is only contentious
    because the fossil fuel companies can afford to hire
    very convincing liars.

    The idea that a set which can be described using natural language automatically constitutes a valid set was one of the mistakes of na|>ve
    set theory which you keep disparaging, and yet here you do the same thing.


    There does inherently exist a finite list of "atomic facts"
    of general knowledge.

    Any rebuttal to this besides at least the attempt
    of a 100% concrete counter-example will be dismissed
    as deception.

    Formal systems operate over a *fixed* set of axioms. The set of
    knowledge is not fixed, but constantly changing. But the results you
    are attempting to challenge (G||dels theorem, etc.) all apply to
    *formal* systems based on fixed sets of axioms rather than some fluid
    and vaguely defined body of knowledge.


    As soon as truth theoretic semantics is utterly replaced
    with proof theoretic semantics G remains true in meta-math
    and becomes meaningless in PA.

    Proof theoretic semantics and truth theoretic semantics are theories designed to address different classes of questions. Neither is going to replace the other.

    Andr|-


    It seems to me that PTS is the actual way that semantics
    has always worked and truth conditional semantics has
    never been more than a convincing misconception.

    I have completely and totally refuted Quine's
    Two Dogmas of Empiricism, no sense providing details
    if you never heard of it.
    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Wed May 13 19:51:06 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 05/13/2026 04:40 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 9:38 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 08:20, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 6:56 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 05:18, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:02 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-12 07:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is >>>>>>>>>>>> merely semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that >>>>>>>>>>>> there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example >>>>>>>>>>>> the
    axiom system

    reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as >>>>>>>>>>> gibberish

    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this >>>>>>>>>> context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other >>>>>>>>>> symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put >>>>>>>>>> side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many >>>>>>>>>> safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you >>>>>>>>>> posted to.

    reCx (xria1 = x)
    reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like >>>>>>>>>>>>
    reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong >>>>>>>>>>>> semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    I'm curious to know how you would actually address Mikko's point >>>>>>>> here. He's pointed out the rather obvious error in your reading >>>>>>>> comprehension, but you've simply glossed over the example.

    In what sense is reCxreay (xriay = yriax) "semantically incoherent"? >>>>>>>>
    Andr|-


    Decimal point versus multiplication operator?
    If it is a decimal point then it is incoherent.

    Obviously its nor a decimal point. He gave you the actual axioms
    which define the dot operator, so there should be no dispute as to >>>>>> its meaning.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is not decidable from those >>>>>> axioms,yet it is clearly semantically coherent.

    Andr|-


    reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is proven true by reCxreCy (xriay = yriax)
    which is proven true by the commutative property of multiplication.

    https://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/blins/classes/fall18/math105/
    Examples/AlgebraAxioms.pdf

    But then you're introducing a new axiom which isn't part of the set
    of axioms which he introduced.

    My thesis:
    The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed
    in language can be encoded as relations between finite strings.

    And how 'bout them Mets?

    Therefore, you're not dealing with the same theory.

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*

    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. There's over
    8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different, often
    contradictory things. And, with the exception of theorems of formal
    systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute certainty. Only
    varying degrees of certainty, but for every given fact you won't get a
    universal consensus on exactly how certain we are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Any rebuttal to this besides at least the attempt
    of a 100% concrete counter-example will be dismissed
    as deception.

    Formal systems operate over a *fixed* set of axioms. The set of
    knowledge is not fixed, but constantly changing. But the results you
    are attempting to challenge (G||dels theorem, etc.) all apply to
    *formal* systems based on fixed sets of axioms rather than some fluid
    and vaguely defined body of knowledge.


    As soon as truth theoretic semantics is utterly replaced
    with proof theoretic semantics G remains true in meta-math
    and becomes meaningless in PA.

    Is the scope. That some knucklehead can fail to bother to define
    that "cats are animals" so that his knucklehead formal system
    does not know this IS OFF-TOPIC.

    Mikko offered a concrete set of axioms and made a claim about what
    could be derived from those axioms. Neither cats nor animals were
    involved.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is undecidable in the theory which >>> he presented. Whether it is decidable in some other theory isn't
    really germane to the discussion.

    Andr|-




    So, if you have a finite set of facts, then,
    that's a fact, and, that's a fact, and, that's a fact,
    ad infinitum: an infinite set of facts.


    It's kind of like relations between physical objects
    being mathematical objects being physical objects, ad infinitum,
    the universe is also its own powerset of fact.

    Maybe nobody cares. If your own theory of fact is satisfactory,
    then, you don't need to care about other putative facts. That
    said, anybody else can, and that's their own fact.

    All Olcott really seems to claim is a right to be left alone,
    yet he won't shut up about it and insists it's universal,
    which is fallacious and faulty reasoning.

    Make sure you prevent material implication from garbage-in/garbage-out
    a.k.a. crazy-in/crazy-out, while you're at it, the "quasi-modal" in
    the logic is perhaps the worst sort of waste-of-time in terms of
    the foundations of logic or about a century's worth.



    Then, matters of decide-ability and in-decide-ability involve
    completeness and incompleteness: and incompleteness and independence.
    Then, independence in axiomatic theories is of at least two kinds:
    adding an axiom, or removing one, and about that axioms vary: expansion-of-comprehension and restriction-of-comprehension.

    So, much of the accounts of axiomatics is foolish in that
    it doesn't distinguish expansion-of-comprehension and the restriction-of-comprehension, or conflates them like the
    retro-thesis of Russell, which is almost as hypocritical
    as the retro-finitism of closed-world flat-earthers.


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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Wed May 13 22:27:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/13/2026 9:51 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/13/2026 04:40 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 9:38 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 08:20, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 6:56 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 05:18, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:02 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-12 07:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is >>>>>>>>>>>>> merely semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that >>>>>>>>>>>>> there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example >>>>>>>>>>>>> the
    axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as >>>>>>>>>>>> gibberish

    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this >>>>>>>>>>> context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other >>>>>>>>>>> symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put >>>>>>>>>>> side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many >>>>>>>>>>> safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you >>>>>>>>>>> posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong >>>>>>>>>>>>> semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    I'm curious to know how you would actually address Mikko's point >>>>>>>>> here. He's pointed out the rather obvious error in your reading >>>>>>>>> comprehension, but you've simply glossed over the example.

    In what sense is reCxreay (xriay = yriax) "semantically incoherent"? >>>>>>>>>
    Andr|-


    Decimal point versus multiplication operator?
    If it is a decimal point then it is incoherent.

    Obviously its nor a decimal point. He gave you the actual axioms >>>>>>> which define the dot operator, so there should be no dispute as to >>>>>>> its meaning.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is not decidable from those >>>>>>> axioms,yet it is clearly semantically coherent.

    Andr|-


    reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is proven true by reCxreCy (xriay = yriax) >>>>>> which is proven true by the commutative property of multiplication. >>>>>>
    https://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/blins/classes/fall18/math105/ >>>>>> Examples/AlgebraAxioms.pdf

    But then you're introducing a new axiom which isn't part of the set
    of axioms which he introduced.

    My thesis:
    The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed
    in language can be encoded as relations between finite strings.

    And how 'bout them Mets?

    Therefore, you're not dealing with the same theory.

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*

    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. There's over
    8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different, often
    contradictory things. And, with the exception of theorems of formal
    systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute certainty. Only
    varying degrees of certainty, but for every given fact you won't get a
    universal consensus on exactly how certain we are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Any rebuttal to this besides at least the attempt
    of a 100% concrete counter-example will be dismissed
    as deception.

    Formal systems operate over a *fixed* set of axioms. The set of
    knowledge is not fixed, but constantly changing. But the results you
    are attempting to challenge (G||dels theorem, etc.) all apply to
    *formal* systems based on fixed sets of axioms rather than some fluid
    and vaguely defined body of knowledge.


    As soon as truth theoretic semantics is utterly replaced
    with proof theoretic semantics G remains true in meta-math
    and becomes meaningless in PA.

    Is the scope. That some knucklehead can fail to bother to define
    that "cats are animals" so that his knucklehead formal system
    does not know this IS OFF-TOPIC.

    Mikko offered a concrete set of axioms and made a claim about what
    could be derived from those axioms. Neither cats nor animals were
    involved.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is undecidable in the theory
    which >>> he presented. Whether it is decidable in some other theory
    isn't
    really germane to the discussion.

    Andr|-




    So, if you have a finite set of facts, then,
    that's a fact, and, that's a fact, and, that's a fact,
    ad infinitum: an infinite set of facts.


    A finite set of "atomic facts" and a finite set of
    semantic entailment relations between finite strings
    can derive an infinite set of semantically correct
    sentences.


    It's kind of like relations between physical objects
    being mathematical objects being physical objects, ad infinitum,
    the universe is also its own powerset of fact.

    Maybe nobody cares. If your own theory of fact is satisfactory,
    then, you don't need to care about other putative facts. That
    said, anybody else can, and that's their own fact.


    It is required that my system encode every element of the
    body of general knowledge. Some of these "atomic facts"
    will be things like the current weight of evidence shows
    that X seems probable, such as the Earth is 4 billion years
    old.

    All Olcott really seems to claim is a right to be left alone,
    yet he won't shut up about it and insists it's universal,
    which is fallacious and faulty reasoning.

    Make sure you prevent material implication from garbage-in/garbage-out

    Yes material implication is problematic.
    Also disjunction introduction.
    Instead of material implication we have modal necessity.

    a.k.a. crazy-in/crazy-out, while you're at it, the "quasi-modal" in
    the logic is perhaps the worst sort of waste-of-time in terms of
    the foundations of logic or about a century's worth.


    You form all of these conclusions after first becoming an
    expert in proof theoretic semantics?



    Then, matters of decide-ability and in-decide-ability involve
    completeness and incompleteness: and incompleteness and independence.
    Then, independence in axiomatic theories is of at least two kinds:
    adding an axiom, or removing one, and about that axioms vary: expansion-of-comprehension and restriction-of-comprehension.

    So, much of the accounts of axiomatics is foolish in that
    it doesn't distinguish expansion-of-comprehension and the restriction-of-comprehension, or conflates them like the
    retro-thesis of Russell, which is almost as hypocritical
    as the retro-finitism of closed-world flat-earthers.


    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Wed May 13 22:46:09 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/13/2026 10:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 5:07 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*

    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. There's
    over 8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different, often
    contradictory things. And, with the exception of theorems of formal
    systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute certainty. Only
    varying degrees of certainty, but for every given fact you won't get
    a universal consensus on exactly how certain we are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Until you can produce this finite set of atomic facts you're all just
    bluster. Here's a few statements. Which would you consider atomic facts:

    rCo The Universe is 14 billion years old.

    rCo The Ungulates and the Carnivores form a clade.

    rCo Jesus Christ died for our sins.

    rCo Nearly 70% of the mass-energy of the universe consists of dark energy. >>
    rCo Anthropogenic climate change is currently occurring.

    rCo The Earth is 6000 years old.

    rCo Argentinosaurus is the largest land animal to ever have lived.

    rCo Measles vaccine causes autism.

    rCo There exists an "island of stability" where extraheavy elements with
    approximately 184 neutrons will have a considerably longer half-life
    than that of the heaviest elements currently know.

    rCo Turing showed that halting cannot be computed.

    actually his proof was in regards to circle-free vs circular machines,
    not specifically halting ones. please do read p246 and p247 of his
    paper /on computable numbers/ more carefully.


    As with G||del, I don't give a rat's ass about the convoluted
    mess of his paper. Unless we boil these things down to their
    barest possible essence they greatly exceed the capacity of
    any human mind.

    and what he showed was that it cannot be computed by a single turing machine.


    Only because he used a fucking dishonest trick that
    proof theoretic semantics would toss out on its ass.

    no one has demonstrated any _actual_ turing machine with a halting
    behavior that provably cannot be computed by _any_ machine, as such a machine would have under-specified, non-determinable semantics that then could not actually exist as a real machine, that any actual decider
    would actually have to decide upon...

    the theory of computing has predicated itself on a limitation that fundamentally resolves to a catch-22 type paradox that has existed since turing wrote his first paper /on computable numbers/


    Its essentially the same damn thing as the Liar Paradox
    that mindless robot humans still have not agreed on. The
    brains of most humans are hard-wired to short-circuit. To
    woefully fallible humans textbooks are the word of God.
    Proof theoretic semantics sees right through this crap.
    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Thu May 14 10:54:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 13/05/2026 18:28, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 9:38 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 08:20, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 6:56 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 05:18, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:02 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-12 07:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is merely >>>>>>>>>> semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that there is >>>>>>>>>> undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example the >>>>>>>>>> axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as gibberish >>>>>>>>
    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this
    context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other >>>>>>>> symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put >>>>>>>> side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many >>>>>>>> safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you >>>>>>>> posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like

    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong >>>>>>>>>> semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    I'm curious to know how you would actually address Mikko's point
    here. He's pointed out the rather obvious error in your reading
    comprehension, but you've simply glossed over the example.

    In what sense is reCxreay (xriay = yriax) "semantically incoherent"? >>>>>>
    Andr|-


    Decimal point versus multiplication operator?
    If it is a decimal point then it is incoherent.

    Obviously its nor a decimal point. He gave you the actual axioms
    which define the dot operator, so there should be no dispute as to
    its meaning.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is not decidable from those >>>> axioms,yet it is clearly semantically coherent.

    Andr|-


    reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is proven true by reCxreCy (xriay = yriax)
    which is proven true by the commutative property of multiplication.

    https://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/blins/classes/fall18/math105/
    Examples/AlgebraAxioms.pdf

    But then you're introducing a new axiom which isn't part of the set of
    axioms which he introduced.

    My thesis:
    The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed
    in language can be encoded as relations between finite strings.

    Therefore, you're not dealing with the same theory.

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*
    Is the scope. That some knucklehead can fail to bother to define
    that "cats are animals" so that his knucklehead formal system
    does not know this IS OFF-TOPIC.

    The entire body of knowledge includes that i-# = -1, j-# = -1, k-# = -1,
    and ijk = -1. From these we can infer that ij = k and ji = -k and
    that ij rea ji, at least when we are talking about Hamilton's quaternions.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to sci.logic,comp.theory,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Thu May 14 11:18:57 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 13/05/2026 14:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:14 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 12/05/2026 16:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 2:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 09/05/2026 15:13, olcott wrote:
    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> think
    that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True(X) is unknown and there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is no method to find out. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I don't know about philosophers but >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians and logicians don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> find it interesting if all you can say that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all knowledge is knowable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and everything else is not. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whether
    or not the truth value of the Goldbach >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> conjecture was
    known. He seemed to think that there are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> alternative
    analytical frameworks that make the question >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of whether
    or not its truth value is known an ambiguous >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> question.

    I needed to refer to unknown truth values >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> specifically
    because all "undecidability" when construed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correctly
    falls into one of two categories. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Undecidability ia based on there being a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> well as the basic halting problem) involves a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> situations that have _no_ coherent answer, not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> just one that can be known by not computed ... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Turing proved that there are universal Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. An universalTuring machine halts with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some inputs and doesn't halt with any other >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input. Every Turing machine that can be given the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> same input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reject some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tries to put the Nth digit from the Nth circle- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> free machine as the Nth digit on this diagonal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> across all circle- free machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nor digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> naively running the classifier on the diagonal itself >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computes a number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> if you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> But it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dovetailing machine to compute turing's diagonal, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You should not say anything about the diagonal before you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on
    computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" >>>>>>>>>>>> across circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in >>>>>>>>>>>> the paper, defined at the bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be >>>>>>>>>> useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be
    computed is
    in that "everything else".

    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true"
    that has no truth value.

    I don't think knowing the truth value of that would be useful. >>>>>>>> At least
    not for any important purpose.

    Knowing that all undecidability is merely semantic
    incoherence enables:

    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    to be reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is merely
    semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example the
    axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as gibberish

    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other symbols >>>> are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put side by >>>> side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you
    posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like

    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong
    semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    The truth about climate change and election fraud could
    be computed.

    Not without real world information.

    Yes, so what?

    So the biggest problem is not how to compute but how to get and verify >>>> the relevant real world infomration.

    A set of "atomic facts" does exist. We only nee to write> them all down.

    THat is a lot of work that can never be completed.


    It can be completed with sufficient automation.

    No, it can't. It is not completed before it contains all material that
    will be published.

    The place to start would be published textbooks.

    How long does it take to read all texbooks published in one year?

    IDK, an LLM might do this in five minutes.

    No, because in that time it cannot access all of the material. And
    it takes time to extract atomic facts and to store them into a big
    database.

    Then peer reviewed papers.

    Now long does it take to read all reviewed papers published in one year?

    Then published newspaper articles.

    How long does it take to read all newspaper articles publised in one
    year?

    An LLM might read everything ever published in one year.

    During that year more is publised.

    And what to do with the "atomic facts" that conflict each other?
    All knowledge that can be expressed in language would
    include the exact (x,y,z) coordinates of every atom of your
    body relative to the exact center of the Earth every millisecond.
    Because this degree of detail is not physically implementable
    to implement my system we exclude most specific details. It
    is a system of general knowledge of about 200 petabytes.

    Of course you may postulate that
    the climate is immutable or that there was massimbe undetected fraud >>>>>> in the last or some earlier election but that is not what the word >>>>>> "knowledge" means.

    The key elements of election fraud are two things:
    (a) There was no actual evidence of election fraud
    that could have possibly changed the results.

    The key element of elction fraud is to find a vulnerability in the
    election procedure.


    There has only been 1620 total documented cases in the USA
    in the last 30 years. Every investigation into fraud by
    audits found a few more votes against Trump than prior to
    the audit. Each of the 60 election fraud cases Trump lost.
    He lost because his lawyers could not tell the wild stories
    that he was telling the public without getting themselves
    convicted of perjury.

    These these fact were unconvincing seems to prove that
    his supporters are in a cult.

    But not that there were no fraud performed skillfully enough to avoid
    detection. What was found was only small unintentional errors that
    nobody tried to hide.

    Likewise there is no perfect logical proof that
    can possibly exist that five minutes ago ever existed.
    It may also be the case that all of reality is entirely
    fictional.

    That is right. But that is not relevant to our understanding of the
    assumed processes that given the world the form it has now or that
    we can expect it to have in the near future. Perhaps the world is
    just God's thought but if it is it seems to be a coherent thought.

    Within the possibly false assumption that reality is
    not fictional and five minutes ago did exist then
    Trump is merely copying Hitler's big lie about election
    fraud is as certain as certain can possibly be.

    When did Hitler claim anything about an election fraud?
    --
    Mikko
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,comp.theory,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Thu May 14 09:40:05 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/14/2026 3:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 13/05/2026 14:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:14 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 12/05/2026 16:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 2:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 09/05/2026 15:13, olcott wrote:
    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> think
    that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True(X) is unknown and there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is no method to find out. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I don't know about philosophers but >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians and logicians don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> find it interesting if all you can say that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all knowledge is knowable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and everything else is not. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whether
    or not the truth value of the Goldbach >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> conjecture was
    known. He seemed to think that there are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> alternative
    analytical frameworks that make the question >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of whether
    or not its truth value is known an ambiguous >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> question.

    I needed to refer to unknown truth values >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> specifically
    because all "undecidability" when construed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correctly
    falls into one of two categories. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (a) Semantic incoherence >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (b) Unknown truth values. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Undecidability ia based on there being a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> well as the basic halting problem) involves a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> situations that have _no_ coherent answer, not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> just one that can be known by not computed ... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Turing proved that there are universal Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. An universalTuring machine halts with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some inputs and doesn't halt with any other >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input. Every Turing machine that can be given >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the same input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reject some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tries to put the Nth digit from the Nth circle- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> free machine as the Nth digit on this diagonal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> across all circle- free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nor digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the diagonal because of the paradox that ensues >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> when naively running the classifier on the diagonal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computes a number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it if you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> But it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dovetailing machine to compute turing's diagonal, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You should not say anything about the diagonal before >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you have defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" >>>>>>>>>>>>> across circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in >>>>>>>>>>>>> the paper, defined at the bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation >>>>>>>>>>>> like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be >>>>>>>>>>> useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be >>>>>>>>>>> computed is
    in that "everything else".

    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true"
    that has no truth value.

    I don't think knowing the truth value of that would be useful. >>>>>>>>> At least
    not for any important purpose.

    Knowing that all undecidability is merely semantic
    incoherence enables:

    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    to be reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is merely
    semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that there is >>>>>>> undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example the >>>>>>> axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as gibberish >>>>>
    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this context >>>>> where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other symbols >>>>> are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put side by >>>>> side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many safely >>>>> conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you
    posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like

    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong
    semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    The truth about climate change and election fraud could
    be computed.

    Not without real world information.

    Yes, so what?

    So the biggest problem is not how to compute but how to get and verify >>>>> the relevant real world infomration.

    A set of "atomic facts" does exist. We only nee to write> them all
    down.

    THat is a lot of work that can never be completed.


    It can be completed with sufficient automation.

    No, it can't. It is not completed before it contains all material that
    will be published.

    The place to start would be published textbooks.

    How long does it take to read all texbooks published in one year?

    IDK, an LLM might do this in five minutes.

    No, because in that time it cannot access all of the material. And
    it takes time to extract atomic facts and to store them into a big
    database.


    LLM would have to be taught how to extract facts.
    If it takes then ten times longer to extract all
    the facts of a body of text they will still be done
    with every textbook ever written after one year.

    Then peer reviewed papers.

    Now long does it take to read all reviewed papers published in one year? >>>
    Then published newspaper articles.

    How long does it take to read all newspaper articles publised in one
    year?

    An LLM might read everything ever published in one year.

    During that year more is publised.


    I may be one or two days out-of-sync far far better
    than any human.

    And what to do with the "atomic facts" that conflict each other?
    All knowledge that can be expressed in language would
    include the exact (x,y,z) coordinates of every atom of your
    body relative to the exact center of the Earth every millisecond.
    Because this degree of detail is not physically implementable
    to implement my system we exclude most specific details. It
    is a system of general knowledge of about 200 petabytes.

    Of course you may postulate that
    the climate is immutable or that there was massimbe undetected fraud >>>>>>> in the last or some earlier election but that is not what the word >>>>>>> "knowledge" means.

    The key elements of election fraud are two things:
    (a) There was no actual evidence of election fraud
    that could have possibly changed the results.

    The key element of elction fraud is to find a vulnerability in the
    election procedure.


    There has only been 1620 total documented cases in the USA
    in the last 30 years. Every investigation into fraud by
    audits found a few more votes against Trump than prior to
    the audit. Each of the 60 election fraud cases Trump lost.
    He lost because his lawyers could not tell the wild stories
    that he was telling the public without getting themselves
    convicted of perjury.

    These these fact were unconvincing seems to prove that
    his supporters are in a cult.

    But not that there were no fraud performed skillfully enough to avoid
    detection. What was found was only small unintentional errors that
    nobody tried to hide.

    Likewise there is no perfect logical proof that
    can possibly exist that five minutes ago ever existed.
    It may also be the case that all of reality is entirely
    fictional.

    That is right. But that is not relevant to our understanding of the
    assumed processes that given the world the form it has now or that
    we can expect it to have in the near future. Perhaps the world is
    just God's thought but if it is it seems to be a coherent thought.


    Correct, to we just encode all of this in language.

    Within the possibly false assumption that reality is
    not fictional and five minutes ago did exist then
    Trump is merely copying Hitler's big lie about election
    fraud is as certain as certain can possibly be.

    When did Hitler claim anything about an election fraud?


    Chapter 6 of Mein Kampf
    "The receptive powers of the masses are very
    restricted, and their understanding is feeble.
    On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such
    being the case, all effective propaganda must
    be confined to a few bare essentials and those
    must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped
    formulas. These slogans should be persistently
    repeated until the very last individual has come
    to grasp the idea that has been put forward."

    Provides the details of Hitler's propaganda system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie#2020_stolen_election_claims
    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy on Thu May 14 10:30:24 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/14/2026 2:54 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 13/05/2026 18:28, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 9:38 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 08:20, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 6:56 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 05:18, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:02 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-12 07:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is merely >>>>>>>>>>> semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that >>>>>>>>>>> there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example the >>>>>>>>>>> axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as gibberish >>>>>>>>>
    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this >>>>>>>>> context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other >>>>>>>>> symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put >>>>>>>>> side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many >>>>>>>>> safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you >>>>>>>>> posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like >>>>>>>>>>>
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong >>>>>>>>>>> semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    I'm curious to know how you would actually address Mikko's point >>>>>>> here. He's pointed out the rather obvious error in your reading >>>>>>> comprehension, but you've simply glossed over the example.

    In what sense is reCxreay (xriay = yriax) "semantically incoherent"? >>>>>>>
    Andr|-


    Decimal point versus multiplication operator?
    If it is a decimal point then it is incoherent.

    Obviously its nor a decimal point. He gave you the actual axioms
    which define the dot operator, so there should be no dispute as to
    its meaning.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is not decidable from those >>>>> axioms,yet it is clearly semantically coherent.

    Andr|-


    reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is proven true by reCxreCy (xriay = yriax)
    which is proven true by the commutative property of multiplication.

    https://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/blins/classes/fall18/math105/
    Examples/AlgebraAxioms.pdf

    But then you're introducing a new axiom which isn't part of the set
    of axioms which he introduced.

    My thesis:
    The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed
    in language can be encoded as relations between finite strings.

    Therefore, you're not dealing with the same theory.

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*
    Is the scope. That some knucklehead can fail to bother to define
    that "cats are animals" so that his knucklehead formal system
    does not know this IS OFF-TOPIC.

    The entire body of knowledge includes that i-# = -1, j-# = -1, k-# = -1,
    and ijk = -1. From these we can infer that ij = k and ji = -k and
    that ij rea ji, at least when we are talking about Hamilton's quaternions.


    i-| = i
    i-# = -1
    i-| = -i

    The entire body of general knowledge expressed in
    language includes the "atomic facts" about imaginary
    numbers in a finite list and the semantic relations
    between finite strings in a finite list such that
    any combination of the above can be derived, no
    longer a finite list.

    Imaginary numbers themselves may be an incoherent notion.
    In this case they would not be included in the body of
    knowledge.
    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Thu May 14 20:24:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 05/13/2026 08:27 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 9:51 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/13/2026 04:40 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 9:38 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 08:20, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 6:56 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 05:18, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:02 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-12 07:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is >>>>>>>>>>>>>> merely semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that >>>>>>>>>>>>>> there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the
    axiom system

    reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as >>>>>>>>>>>>> gibberish

    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this >>>>>>>>>>>> context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other >>>>>>>>>>>> symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put >>>>>>>>>>>> side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many >>>>>>>>>>>> safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups >>>>>>>>>>>> you
    posted to.

    reCx (xria1 = x)
    reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong >>>>>>>>>>>>>> semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    I'm curious to know how you would actually address Mikko's point >>>>>>>>>> here. He's pointed out the rather obvious error in your reading >>>>>>>>>> comprehension, but you've simply glossed over the example. >>>>>>>>>>
    In what sense is reCxreay (xriay = yriax) "semantically incoherent"? >>>>>>>>>>
    Andr|-


    Decimal point versus multiplication operator?
    If it is a decimal point then it is incoherent.

    Obviously its nor a decimal point. He gave you the actual axioms >>>>>>>> which define the dot operator, so there should be no dispute as to >>>>>>>> its meaning.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is not decidable from those >>>>>>>> axioms,yet it is clearly semantically coherent.

    Andr|-


    reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is proven true by reCxreCy (xriay = yriax) >>>>>>> which is proven true by the commutative property of multiplication. >>>>>>>
    https://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/blins/classes/fall18/math105/ >>>>>>> Examples/AlgebraAxioms.pdf

    But then you're introducing a new axiom which isn't part of the set >>>>>> of axioms which he introduced.

    My thesis:
    The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed
    in language can be encoded as relations between finite strings.

    And how 'bout them Mets?

    Therefore, you're not dealing with the same theory.

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*

    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. There's over >>>> 8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different, often
    contradictory things. And, with the exception of theorems of formal
    systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute certainty. Only
    varying degrees of certainty, but for every given fact you won't get a >>>> universal consensus on exactly how certain we are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Any rebuttal to this besides at least the attempt
    of a 100% concrete counter-example will be dismissed
    as deception.

    Formal systems operate over a *fixed* set of axioms. The set of
    knowledge is not fixed, but constantly changing. But the results you
    are attempting to challenge (G||dels theorem, etc.) all apply to
    *formal* systems based on fixed sets of axioms rather than some fluid
    and vaguely defined body of knowledge.


    As soon as truth theoretic semantics is utterly replaced
    with proof theoretic semantics G remains true in meta-math
    and becomes meaningless in PA.

    Is the scope. That some knucklehead can fail to bother to define
    that "cats are animals" so that his knucklehead formal system
    does not know this IS OFF-TOPIC.

    Mikko offered a concrete set of axioms and made a claim about what
    could be derived from those axioms. Neither cats nor animals were
    involved.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is undecidable in the theory
    which >>> he presented. Whether it is decidable in some other theory
    isn't
    really germane to the discussion.

    Andr|-




    So, if you have a finite set of facts, then,
    that's a fact, and, that's a fact, and, that's a fact,
    ad infinitum: an infinite set of facts.


    A finite set of "atomic facts" and a finite set of
    semantic entailment relations between finite strings
    can derive an infinite set of semantically correct
    sentences.


    It's kind of like relations between physical objects
    being mathematical objects being physical objects, ad infinitum,
    the universe is also its own powerset of fact.

    Maybe nobody cares. If your own theory of fact is satisfactory,
    then, you don't need to care about other putative facts. That
    said, anybody else can, and that's their own fact.


    It is required that my system encode every element of the
    body of general knowledge. Some of these "atomic facts"
    will be things like the current weight of evidence shows
    that X seems probable, such as the Earth is 4 billion years
    old.

    All Olcott really seems to claim is a right to be left alone,
    yet he won't shut up about it and insists it's universal,
    which is fallacious and faulty reasoning.

    Make sure you prevent material implication from garbage-in/garbage-out

    Yes material implication is problematic.
    Also disjunction introduction.
    Instead of material implication we have modal necessity.

    a.k.a. crazy-in/crazy-out, while you're at it, the "quasi-modal" in
    the logic is perhaps the worst sort of waste-of-time in terms of
    the foundations of logic or about a century's worth.


    You form all of these conclusions after first becoming an
    expert in proof theoretic semantics?



    Then, matters of decide-ability and in-decide-ability involve
    completeness and incompleteness: and incompleteness and independence.
    Then, independence in axiomatic theories is of at least two kinds:
    adding an axiom, or removing one, and about that axioms vary:
    expansion-of-comprehension and restriction-of-comprehension.

    So, much of the accounts of axiomatics is foolish in that
    it doesn't distinguish expansion-of-comprehension and the
    restriction-of-comprehension, or conflates them like the
    retro-thesis of Russell, which is almost as hypocritical
    as the retro-finitism of closed-world flat-earthers.





    What came first: the chicken or the egg?

    Usual accounts might be that first there was a proto-chicken,
    and after a course of mutation, with another proto-chicken,
    resulted a chicken egg, resulting a chicken. Another account
    may be that a proto-chicken evolved in its life and mutated
    into a chicken.

    Yet, the overall course of the question involves that
    chickens come from eggs, and eggs come from chickens,
    so answering the sort of question among otherwise usual
    accounts of precedence, here has more than one answer.

    So, from the ancient times the sorts of ideas of causes
    for the causal are as of the "first principles" and as
    of the "final cause". There's a rich dialectic about
    causality. Today's account of logicist positivism often
    makes for that both are due "science", that the principles
    are a scientific theory and the causes are a scientific result.

    Sowa and Smith had a "great debate" on ontology, a lot of
    it is old-wrapped-as-new since the antiquarian and for
    "first principles" and "final cause".

    About Quine's two arguments on empiricism, here there's a third.


    Anyways, any account of "fact" is unique. For example,
    making an account of the temporal in the logic, has
    that time-series data is attached not only to every
    sort of fact its effectivity, also to every sort of
    evaluation of fact, "time-series data".

    Anyways, it is not so that "the entire body of fact" is finite.



    Then, this is just a usual refutation of retro-finitists generally.




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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy on Fri May 15 08:44:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 14/05/2026 18:30, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2026 2:54 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 13/05/2026 18:28, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 9:38 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 08:20, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 6:56 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 05:18, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:02 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-12 07:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is >>>>>>>>>>>> merely semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that >>>>>>>>>>>> there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example >>>>>>>>>>>> the
    axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as >>>>>>>>>>> gibberish

    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this >>>>>>>>>> context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other >>>>>>>>>> symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put >>>>>>>>>> side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many >>>>>>>>>> safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you >>>>>>>>>> posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like >>>>>>>>>>>>
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong >>>>>>>>>>>> semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    I'm curious to know how you would actually address Mikko's point >>>>>>>> here. He's pointed out the rather obvious error in your reading >>>>>>>> comprehension, but you've simply glossed over the example.

    In what sense is reCxreay (xriay = yriax) "semantically incoherent"? >>>>>>>>
    Andr|-


    Decimal point versus multiplication operator?
    If it is a decimal point then it is incoherent.

    Obviously its nor a decimal point. He gave you the actual axioms
    which define the dot operator, so there should be no dispute as to >>>>>> its meaning.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is not decidable from those >>>>>> axioms,yet it is clearly semantically coherent.

    Andr|-


    reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is proven true by reCxreCy (xriay = yriax)
    which is proven true by the commutative property of multiplication.

    https://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/blins/classes/fall18/math105/
    Examples/AlgebraAxioms.pdf

    But then you're introducing a new axiom which isn't part of the set
    of axioms which he introduced.

    My thesis:
    The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed
    in language can be encoded as relations between finite strings.

    Therefore, you're not dealing with the same theory.

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*
    Is the scope. That some knucklehead can fail to bother to define
    that "cats are animals" so that his knucklehead formal system
    does not know this IS OFF-TOPIC.

    The entire body of knowledge includes that i-# = -1, j-# = -1, k-# = -1,
    and ijk = -1. From these we can infer that ij = k and ji = -k and
    that ij rea ji, at least when we are talking about Hamilton's quaternions.

    i-| =-a i
    i-# = -1
    i-| = -i

    The entire body of general knowledge expressed in
    language includes the "atomic facts" about imaginary
    numbers in a finite list and the semantic relations
    between finite strings in a finite list such that
    any combination of the above can be derived, no
    longer a finite list.

    Imaginary numbers themselves may be an incoherent notion.
    In this case they would not be included in the body of
    knowledge.

    So a part of the body of knowledge is that multiplication is not
    commutative except in restricted domains, so your above claim to
    the contrary is not true.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to sci.logic,comp.theory,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Fri May 15 08:48:00 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 14/05/2026 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2026 3:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 13/05/2026 14:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:14 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 12/05/2026 16:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 2:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 09/05/2026 15:13, olcott wrote:
    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> body of
    knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> think
    that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> X True(X) is unknown and there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is no method to find out. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I don't know about philosophers but >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians and logicians don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> find it interesting if all you can say that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all knowledge is knowable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and everything else is not. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whether
    or not the truth value of the Goldbach >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> conjecture was
    known. He seemed to think that there are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> alternative
    analytical frameworks that make the question >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of whether
    or not its truth value is known an ambiguous >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> question.

    I needed to refer to unknown truth values >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> specifically
    because all "undecidability" when construed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correctly
    falls into one of two categories. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (a) Semantic incoherence >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (b) Unknown truth values. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Undecidability ia based on there being a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> well as the basic halting problem) involves a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> situations that have _no_ coherent answer, not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> just one that can be known by not computed ... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Turing proved that there are universal Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. An universalTuring machine halts with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some inputs and doesn't halt with any other >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input. Every Turing machine that can be given >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the same input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reject some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tries to put the Nth digit from the Nth circle- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> free machine as the Nth digit on this diagonal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> across all circle- free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines nor digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the diagonal because of the paradox that ensues >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> when naively running the classifier on the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computes a number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it if you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. But it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dovetailing machine to compute turing's diagonal, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You should not say anything about the diagonal before >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you have defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" >>>>>>>>>>>>>> across circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the paper, defined at the bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string >>>>>>>>>>>>> transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation >>>>>>>>>>>>> like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be >>>>>>>>>>>> useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be >>>>>>>>>>>> computed is
    in that "everything else".

    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true"
    that has no truth value.

    I don't think knowing the truth value of that would be useful. >>>>>>>>>> At least
    not for any important purpose.

    Knowing that all undecidability is merely semantic
    incoherence enables:

    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    to be reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is merely >>>>>>>> semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that there is >>>>>>>> undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example the >>>>>>>> axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as gibberish >>>>>>
    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this context >>>>>> where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other
    symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many safely >>>>>> conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you
    posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like

    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong
    semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    The truth about climate change and election fraud could
    be computed.

    Not without real world information.

    Yes, so what?

    So the biggest problem is not how to compute but how to get and
    verify
    the relevant real world infomration.

    A set of "atomic facts" does exist. We only nee to write> them all
    down.

    THat is a lot of work that can never be completed.


    It can be completed with sufficient automation.

    No, it can't. It is not completed before it contains all material that
    will be published.

    The place to start would be published textbooks.

    How long does it take to read all texbooks published in one year?

    IDK, an LLM might do this in five minutes.

    No, because in that time it cannot access all of the material. And
    it takes time to extract atomic facts and to store them into a big
    database.


    LLM would have to be taught how to extract facts.
    If it takes then ten times longer to extract all
    the facts of a body of text they will still be done
    with every textbook ever written after one year.

    Then peer reviewed papers.

    Now long does it take to read all reviewed papers published in one
    year?

    Then published newspaper articles.

    How long does it take to read all newspaper articles publised in one
    year?

    An LLM might read everything ever published in one year.

    During that year more is publised.


    I may be one or two days out-of-sync far far better
    than any human.

    And what to do with the "atomic facts" that conflict each other?
    All knowledge that can be expressed in language would
    include the exact (x,y,z) coordinates of every atom of your
    body relative to the exact center of the Earth every millisecond. >>>>>>> Because this degree of detail is not physically implementable
    to implement my system we exclude most specific details. It
    is a system of general knowledge of about 200 petabytes.

    Of course you may postulate that
    the climate is immutable or that there was massimbe undetected >>>>>>>> fraud
    in the last or some earlier election but that is not what the word >>>>>>>> "knowledge" means.

    The key elements of election fraud are two things:
    (a) There was no actual evidence of election fraud
    that could have possibly changed the results.

    The key element of elction fraud is to find a vulnerability in the >>>>>> election procedure.


    There has only been 1620 total documented cases in the USA
    in the last 30 years. Every investigation into fraud by
    audits found a few more votes against Trump than prior to
    the audit. Each of the 60 election fraud cases Trump lost.
    He lost because his lawyers could not tell the wild stories
    that he was telling the public without getting themselves
    convicted of perjury.

    These these fact were unconvincing seems to prove that
    his supporters are in a cult.

    But not that there were no fraud performed skillfully enough to avoid
    detection. What was found was only small unintentional errors that
    nobody tried to hide.

    Likewise there is no perfect logical proof that
    can possibly exist that five minutes ago ever existed.
    It may also be the case that all of reality is entirely
    fictional.

    That is right. But that is not relevant to our understanding of the
    assumed processes that given the world the form it has now or that
    we can expect it to have in the near future. Perhaps the world is
    just God's thought but if it is it seems to be a coherent thought.


    Correct, to we just encode all of this in language.

    Within the possibly false assumption that reality is
    not fictional and five minutes ago did exist then
    Trump is merely copying Hitler's big lie about election
    fraud is as certain as certain can possibly be.

    When did Hitler claim anything about an election fraud?

    Chapter 6 of Mein Kampf
    "The receptive powers of the masses are very
    restricted, and their understanding is feeble.
    On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such
    being the case, all effective propaganda must
    be confined to a few bare essentials and those
    must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped
    formulas. These slogans should be persistently
    repeated until the very last individual has come
    to grasp the idea that has been put forward."

    Provides the details of Hitler's propaganda system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie#2020_stolen_election_claims

    Looks like a confessison that you lied.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Fri May 15 08:59:54 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/14/2026 10:24 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/13/2026 08:27 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 9:51 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/13/2026 04:40 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 9:38 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 08:20, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 6:56 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 05:18, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:02 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-12 07:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> merely semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the
    axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as >>>>>>>>>>>>>> gibberish

    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this >>>>>>>>>>>>> context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other >>>>>>>>>>>>> symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put >>>>>>>>>>>>> side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many >>>>>>>>>>>>> safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups >>>>>>>>>>>>> you
    posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    I'm curious to know how you would actually address Mikko's point >>>>>>>>>>> here. He's pointed out the rather obvious error in your reading >>>>>>>>>>> comprehension, but you've simply glossed over the example. >>>>>>>>>>>
    In what sense is reCxreay (xriay = yriax) "semantically incoherent"?

    Andr|-


    Decimal point versus multiplication operator?
    If it is a decimal point then it is incoherent.

    Obviously its nor a decimal point. He gave you the actual axioms >>>>>>>>> which define the dot operator, so there should be no dispute as to >>>>>>>>> its meaning.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is not decidable from those
    axioms,yet it is clearly semantically coherent.

    Andr|-


    reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is proven true by reCxreCy (xriay = yriax) >>>>>>>> which is proven true by the commutative property of multiplication. >>>>>>>>
    https://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/blins/classes/fall18/math105/ >>>>>>>> Examples/AlgebraAxioms.pdf

    But then you're introducing a new axiom which isn't part of the set >>>>>>> of axioms which he introduced.

    My thesis:
    The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed
    in language can be encoded as relations between finite strings.

    And how 'bout them Mets?

    Therefore, you're not dealing with the same theory.

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*

    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. There's over >>>>> 8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different, often
    contradictory things. And, with the exception of theorems of formal
    systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute certainty. Only >>>>> varying degrees of certainty, but for every given fact you won't get a >>>>> universal consensus on exactly how certain we are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Any rebuttal to this besides at least the attempt
    of a 100% concrete counter-example will be dismissed
    as deception.

    Formal systems operate over a *fixed* set of axioms. The set of
    knowledge is not fixed, but constantly changing. But the results you >>>>> are attempting to challenge (G||dels theorem, etc.) all apply to
    *formal* systems based on fixed sets of axioms rather than some fluid >>>>> and vaguely defined body of knowledge.


    As soon as truth theoretic semantics is utterly replaced
    with proof theoretic semantics G remains true in meta-math
    and becomes meaningless in PA.

    Is the scope. That some knucklehead can fail to bother to define
    that "cats are animals" so that his knucklehead formal system
    does not know this IS OFF-TOPIC.

    Mikko offered a concrete set of axioms and made a claim about what
    could be derived from those axioms. Neither cats nor animals were
    involved.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is undecidable in the theory
    which >>> he presented. Whether it is decidable in some other theory
    isn't
    really germane to the discussion.

    Andr|-




    So, if you have a finite set of facts, then,
    that's a fact, and, that's a fact, and, that's a fact,
    ad infinitum: an infinite set of facts.


    A finite set of "atomic facts" and a finite set of
    semantic entailment relations between finite strings
    can derive an infinite set of semantically correct
    sentences.


    It's kind of like relations between physical objects
    being mathematical objects being physical objects, ad infinitum,
    the universe is also its own powerset of fact.

    Maybe nobody cares. If your own theory of fact is satisfactory,
    then, you don't need to care about other putative facts. That
    said, anybody else can, and that's their own fact.


    It is required that my system encode every element of the
    body of general knowledge. Some of these "atomic facts"
    will be things like the current weight of evidence shows
    that X seems probable, such as the Earth is 4 billion years
    old.

    All Olcott really seems to claim is a right to be left alone,
    yet he won't shut up about it and insists it's universal,
    which is fallacious and faulty reasoning.

    Make sure you prevent material implication from garbage-in/garbage-out

    Yes material implication is problematic.
    Also disjunction introduction.
    Instead of material implication we have modal necessity.

    a.k.a. crazy-in/crazy-out, while you're at it, the "quasi-modal" in
    the logic is perhaps the worst sort of waste-of-time in terms of
    the foundations of logic or about a century's worth.


    You form all of these conclusions after first becoming an
    expert in proof theoretic semantics?



    Then, matters of decide-ability and in-decide-ability involve
    completeness and incompleteness: and incompleteness and independence.
    Then, independence in axiomatic theories is of at least two kinds:
    adding an axiom, or removing one, and about that axioms vary:
    expansion-of-comprehension and restriction-of-comprehension.

    So, much of the accounts of axiomatics is foolish in that
    it doesn't distinguish expansion-of-comprehension and the
    restriction-of-comprehension, or conflates them like the
    retro-thesis of Russell, which is almost as hypocritical
    as the retro-finitism of closed-world flat-earthers.





    What came first: the chicken or the egg?


    It the hierarchy of the prerequisites of the creation
    of concepts on the basis of no concepts

    The concept of
    Nothingness came first,
    then Not Nothing
    then Something (Hegel's Dialectic)
    https://liarparadox.org/GodsPlan.gif

    the egg came before the chicken because it is comprised
    of fewer and simpler ideas than a chicken.

    Usual accounts might be that first there was a proto-chicken,
    and after a course of mutation, with another proto-chicken,
    resulted a chicken egg, resulting a chicken. Another account
    may be that a proto-chicken evolved in its life and mutated
    into a chicken.

    Yet, the overall course of the question involves that
    chickens come from eggs, and eggs come from chickens,
    so answering the sort of question among otherwise usual
    accounts of precedence, here has more than one answer.

    So, from the ancient times the sorts of ideas of causes
    for the causal are as of the "first principles" and as
    of the "final cause". There's a rich dialectic about
    causality. Today's account of logicist positivism often
    makes for that both are due "science", that the principles
    are a scientific theory and the causes are a scientific result.

    Sowa and Smith had a "great debate" on ontology, a lot of
    it is old-wrapped-as-new since the antiquarian and for
    "first principles" and "final cause".

    About Quine's two arguments on empiricism, here there's a third.


    When the otherwise meaningless finite string Bachelor(x) is stipulated
    to mean: Bachelor(x) := -4Married(x) reo Male(x) reo Adult(x) reo Human(x)

    then Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism objection's to the
    analytic/synthetic distinction based on synonymity dissolves.


    Anyways, any account of "fact" is unique. For example,
    making an account of the temporal in the logic, has
    that time-series data is attached not only to every
    sort of fact its effectivity, also to every sort of
    evaluation of fact, "time-series data".

    Anyways, it is not so that "the entire body of fact" is finite.



    Then, this is just a usual refutation of retro-finitists generally.




    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy on Fri May 15 09:24:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/15/2026 12:44 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 14/05/2026 18:30, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2026 2:54 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 13/05/2026 18:28, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 9:38 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 08:20, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 6:56 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 05:18, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:02 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-12 07:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is >>>>>>>>>>>>> merely semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that >>>>>>>>>>>>> there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr >>>>>>>>>>>>> example the
    axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as >>>>>>>>>>>> gibberish

    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this >>>>>>>>>>> context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some >>>>>>>>>>> other symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put >>>>>>>>>>> side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many >>>>>>>>>>> safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you >>>>>>>>>>> posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong >>>>>>>>>>>>> semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    I'm curious to know how you would actually address Mikko's
    point here. He's pointed out the rather obvious error in your >>>>>>>>> reading comprehension, but you've simply glossed over the example. >>>>>>>>>
    In what sense is reCxreay (xriay = yriax) "semantically incoherent"? >>>>>>>>>
    Andr|-


    Decimal point versus multiplication operator?
    If it is a decimal point then it is incoherent.

    Obviously its nor a decimal point. He gave you the actual axioms >>>>>>> which define the dot operator, so there should be no dispute as >>>>>>> to its meaning.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is not decidable from those >>>>>>> axioms,yet it is clearly semantically coherent.

    Andr|-


    reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is proven true by reCxreCy (xriay = yriax) >>>>>> which is proven true by the commutative property of multiplication. >>>>>>
    https://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/blins/classes/fall18/math105/ >>>>>> Examples/AlgebraAxioms.pdf

    But then you're introducing a new axiom which isn't part of the set >>>>> of axioms which he introduced.

    My thesis:
    The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed
    in language can be encoded as relations between finite strings.

    Therefore, you're not dealing with the same theory.

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*
    Is the scope. That some knucklehead can fail to bother to define
    that "cats are animals" so that his knucklehead formal system
    does not know this IS OFF-TOPIC.

    The entire body of knowledge includes that i-# = -1, j-# = -1, k-# = -1, >>> and ijk = -1. From these we can infer that ij = k and ji = -k and
    that ij rea ji, at least when we are talking about Hamilton's quaternions. >>
    i-| =-a i
    i-# = -1
    i-| = -i

    The entire body of general knowledge expressed in
    language includes the "atomic facts" about imaginary
    numbers in a finite list and the semantic relations
    between finite strings in a finite list such that
    any combination of the above can be derived, no
    longer a finite list.

    Imaginary numbers themselves may be an incoherent notion.
    In this case they would not be included in the body of
    knowledge.

    So a part of the body of knowledge is that multiplication is not
    commutative except in restricted domains, so your above claim to
    the contrary is not true.


    It would be defined separately for each domain.

    https://www.liarparadox.org/Wittgenstein.pdf
    When one understands that the entire body of true on the basis
    of meaning expressed in language is composed entirely of
    (a) Expressions that are stipulated to be true "atomic facts"
    (b) Expressions derived by semantic entailment from (a)

    then it becomes obvious that Wittgenstein's critique of
    G||del's 1931 incompleteness was spot on exactly right.

    Proof Theoretic Semantics in its most basic essence is
    saying this exact same thing since Dag Prawitz 2012 paper.

    Truth as an Epistemic Notion https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-011-9107-6
    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,comp.theory,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Fri May 15 09:27:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/15/2026 12:48 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 14/05/2026 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2026 3:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 13/05/2026 14:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:14 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 12/05/2026 16:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 2:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 09/05/2026 15:13, olcott wrote:
    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> body of
    knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you think
    that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> X True(X) is unknown and there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is no method to find out. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I don't know about philosophers but >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians and logicians don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> find it interesting if all you can say >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that all knowledge is knowable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and everything else is not. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on whether
    or not the truth value of the Goldbach >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> conjecture was
    known. He seemed to think that there are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> alternative
    analytical frameworks that make the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> question of whether
    or not its truth value is known an >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ambiguous question.

    I needed to refer to unknown truth values >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> specifically
    because all "undecidability" when construed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correctly
    falls into one of two categories. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (a) Semantic incoherence >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (b) Unknown truth values. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Undecidability ia based on there being a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> well as the basic halting problem) involves a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> situations that have _no_ coherent answer, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not just one that can be known by not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. An universalTuring machine halts >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with some inputs and doesn't halt with any other >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input. Every Turing machine that can be given >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the same input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> accept some input with which >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that universal Turing machine halts or fails >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to reject some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tries to put the Nth digit from the Nth circle- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> free machine as the Nth digit on this diagonal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> across all circle- free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines nor digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> compute the diagonal because of the paradox that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ensues when naively running the classifier on the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computes a number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it if you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. But it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dovetailing machine to compute turing's diagonal, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You should not say anything about the diagonal before >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you have defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> across circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' in >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the paper, defined at the bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can >>>>>>>>>>>>>> be computed by applying a finite set of finite string >>>>>>>>>>>>>> transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation >>>>>>>>>>>>>> like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be >>>>>>>>>>>>> useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be >>>>>>>>>>>>> computed is
    in that "everything else".

    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true"
    that has no truth value.

    I don't think knowing the truth value of that would be
    useful. At least
    not for any important purpose.

    Knowing that all undecidability is merely semantic
    incoherence enables:

    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    to be reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge. >>>>>>>>>
    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is merely >>>>>>>>> semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that there is >>>>>>>>> undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example the >>>>>>>>> axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as gibberish >>>>>>>
    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this context >>>>>>> where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other
    symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put >>>>>>> side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many safely >>>>>>> conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you >>>>>>> posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like

    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong
    semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    The truth about climate change and election fraud could
    be computed.

    Not without real world information.

    Yes, so what?

    So the biggest problem is not how to compute but how to get and >>>>>>> verify
    the relevant real world infomration.

    A set of "atomic facts" does exist. We only nee to write> them all >>>>>> down.

    THat is a lot of work that can never be completed.


    It can be completed with sufficient automation.

    No, it can't. It is not completed before it contains all material that
    will be published.

    The place to start would be published textbooks.

    How long does it take to read all texbooks published in one year?

    IDK, an LLM might do this in five minutes.

    No, because in that time it cannot access all of the material. And
    it takes time to extract atomic facts and to store them into a big
    database.


    LLM would have to be taught how to extract facts.
    If it takes then ten times longer to extract all
    the facts of a body of text they will still be done
    with every textbook ever written after one year.

    Then peer reviewed papers.

    Now long does it take to read all reviewed papers published in one
    year?

    Then published newspaper articles.

    How long does it take to read all newspaper articles publised in one >>>>> year?

    An LLM might read everything ever published in one year.

    During that year more is publised.


    I may be one or two days out-of-sync far far better
    than any human.

    And what to do with the "atomic facts" that conflict each other?
    All knowledge that can be expressed in language would
    include the exact (x,y,z) coordinates of every atom of your
    body relative to the exact center of the Earth every millisecond. >>>>>>>> Because this degree of detail is not physically implementable
    to implement my system we exclude most specific details. It
    is a system of general knowledge of about 200 petabytes.

    Of course you may postulate that
    the climate is immutable or that there was massimbe undetected >>>>>>>>> fraud
    in the last or some earlier election but that is not what the word >>>>>>>>> "knowledge" means.

    The key elements of election fraud are two things:
    (a) There was no actual evidence of election fraud
    that could have possibly changed the results.

    The key element of elction fraud is to find a vulnerability in the >>>>>>> election procedure.


    There has only been 1620 total documented cases in the USA
    in the last 30 years. Every investigation into fraud by
    audits found a few more votes against Trump than prior to
    the audit. Each of the 60 election fraud cases Trump lost.
    He lost because his lawyers could not tell the wild stories
    that he was telling the public without getting themselves
    convicted of perjury.

    These these fact were unconvincing seems to prove that
    his supporters are in a cult.

    But not that there were no fraud performed skillfully enough to avoid >>>>> detection. What was found was only small unintentional errors that
    nobody tried to hide.

    Likewise there is no perfect logical proof that
    can possibly exist that five minutes ago ever existed.
    It may also be the case that all of reality is entirely
    fictional.

    That is right. But that is not relevant to our understanding of the
    assumed processes that given the world the form it has now or that
    we can expect it to have in the near future. Perhaps the world is
    just God's thought but if it is it seems to be a coherent thought.


    Correct, to we just encode all of this in language.

    Within the possibly false assumption that reality is
    not fictional and five minutes ago did exist then
    Trump is merely copying Hitler's big lie about election
    fraud is as certain as certain can possibly be.

    When did Hitler claim anything about an election fraud?

    Chapter 6 of Mein Kampf
    "The receptive powers of the masses are very
    restricted, and their understanding is feeble.
    On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such
    being the case, all effective propaganda must
    be confined to a few bare essentials and those
    must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped
    formulas. These slogans should be persistently
    repeated until the very last individual has come
    to grasp the idea that has been put forward."

    Provides the details of Hitler's propaganda system.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie#2020_stolen_election_claims

    Looks like a confessison that you lied.


    I did not say it as clearly as I could have said it.
    Trump did exactly copy Hitler's "big lie" propaganda
    system from Hitler's Chapter Six "War Propaganda"
    system of Hitler's Mein Kampf in Trump's lies about
    election fraud.
    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Fri May 15 23:45:58 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/13/26 8:46 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 10:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 5:07 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*

    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. There's
    over 8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different,
    often contradictory things. And, with the exception of theorems of
    formal systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute
    certainty. Only varying degrees of certainty, but for every given
    fact you won't get a universal consensus on exactly how certain we
    are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Until you can produce this finite set of atomic facts you're all just
    bluster. Here's a few statements. Which would you consider atomic facts: >>>
    rCo The Universe is 14 billion years old.

    rCo The Ungulates and the Carnivores form a clade.

    rCo Jesus Christ died for our sins.

    rCo Nearly 70% of the mass-energy of the universe consists of dark energy. >>>
    rCo Anthropogenic climate change is currently occurring.

    rCo The Earth is 6000 years old.

    rCo Argentinosaurus is the largest land animal to ever have lived.

    rCo Measles vaccine causes autism.

    rCo There exists an "island of stability" where extraheavy elements
    with approximately 184 neutrons will have a considerably longer half-
    life than that of the heaviest elements currently know.

    rCo Turing showed that halting cannot be computed.

    actually his proof was in regards to circle-free vs circular machines,
    not specifically halting ones. please do read p246 and p247 of his
    paper /on computable numbers/ more carefully.


    As with G||del, I don't give a rat's ass about the convoluted
    mess of his paper. Unless we boil these things down to their
    barest possible essence they greatly exceed the capacity of
    any human mind.

    and what he showed was that it cannot be computed by a single turing
    machine.


    Only because he used a fucking dishonest trick that
    proof theoretic semantics would toss out on its ass.

    no one has demonstrated any _actual_ turing machine with a halting
    behavior that provably cannot be computed by _any_ machine, as such a
    machine would have under-specified, non-determinable semantics that
    then could not actually exist as a real machine, that any actual
    decider would actually have to decide upon...

    the theory of computing has predicated itself on a limitation that
    fundamentally resolves to a catch-22 type paradox that has existed
    since turing wrote his first paper /on computable numbers/


    Its essentially the same damn thing as the Liar Paradox
    that mindless robot humans still have not agreed on. The
    brains of most humans are hard-wired to short-circuit. To
    woefully fallible humans textbooks are the word of God.
    Proof theoretic semantics sees right through this crap.


    it just isn't polcott...

    the liar's paradox is a sentence that is false, in regards to nothing.
    what is it false about? who the fuck knows Efn+

    godel's sentence is a truth, about nothing, that has no proof. what is
    that truth?? again, who the fuck knows Efn+Efn+

    turing's diagonal, however, is computing an explicitly defined object.
    it is trying to take the n-th digit from the n-th circle-free machine,
    and constructing it into the n-th digit of a "diagonal" ... and
    stumbling on the fact it never defined a digit for itself on that diagonal

    turing's diagonal isn't a "dishonest" trick. he legitimately got stumped
    by trying to compute an explicitly defined object, and figured it
    supported godel's result
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the lil crank that could

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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sat May 16 11:42:24 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 16/05/2026 09:45, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 8:46 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 10:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 5:07 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*

    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. There's >>>>>> over 8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different,
    often contradictory things. And, with the exception of theorems of >>>>>> formal systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute
    certainty. Only varying degrees of certainty, but for every given >>>>>> fact you won't get a universal consensus on exactly how certain we >>>>>> are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Until you can produce this finite set of atomic facts you're all
    just bluster. Here's a few statements. Which would you consider
    atomic facts:

    rCo The Universe is 14 billion years old.

    rCo The Ungulates and the Carnivores form a clade.

    rCo Jesus Christ died for our sins.

    rCo Nearly 70% of the mass-energy of the universe consists of dark
    energy.

    rCo Anthropogenic climate change is currently occurring.

    rCo The Earth is 6000 years old.

    rCo Argentinosaurus is the largest land animal to ever have lived.

    rCo Measles vaccine causes autism.

    rCo There exists an "island of stability" where extraheavy elements
    with approximately 184 neutrons will have a considerably longer
    half- life than that of the heaviest elements currently know.

    rCo Turing showed that halting cannot be computed.

    actually his proof was in regards to circle-free vs circular
    machines, not specifically halting ones. please do read p246 and p247
    of his paper /on computable numbers/ more carefully.


    As with G||del, I don't give a rat's ass about the convoluted
    mess of his paper. Unless we boil these things down to their
    barest possible essence they greatly exceed the capacity of
    any human mind.

    and what he showed was that it cannot be computed by a single turing
    machine.


    Only because he used a fucking dishonest trick that
    proof theoretic semantics would toss out on its ass.

    no one has demonstrated any _actual_ turing machine with a halting
    behavior that provably cannot be computed by _any_ machine, as such a
    machine would have under-specified, non-determinable semantics that
    then could not actually exist as a real machine, that any actual
    decider would actually have to decide upon...

    the theory of computing has predicated itself on a limitation that
    fundamentally resolves to a catch-22 type paradox that has existed
    since turing wrote his first paper /on computable numbers/


    Its essentially the same damn thing as the Liar Paradox
    that mindless robot humans still have not agreed on. The
    brains of most humans are hard-wired to short-circuit. To
    woefully fallible humans textbooks are the word of God.
    Proof theoretic semantics sees right through this crap.


    it just isn't polcott...

    the liar's paradox is a sentence that is false, in regards to nothing.
    what is it false about? who the fuck knows Efn+

    godel's sentence is a truth, about nothing, that has no proof. what is
    that truth?? again, who the fuck knows Efn+Efn+

    turing's diagonal, however, is computing an explicitly defined object.
    it is trying to take the n-th digit from the n-th circle-free machine,

    Nut just trying. It is a well defined sequence of digits.
    and constructing it into the n-th digit of a "diagonal" ... and
    stumbling on the fact it never defined a digit for itself on that diagonal

    Not stumbling. It is simply a provable fact that no digit on the
    diagonal comes from a circle-free machine that computes the diagonal.
    This is sufficient to prove that there is no circle-free machine
    that computes the diagonal. As the diagonal is infinitely long no
    circular machine can compute it. Therefore no Turing machine can
    compute the diagonal.
    --
    Mikko

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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy on Sat May 16 12:15:50 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 15/05/2026 17:24, olcott wrote:
    On 5/15/2026 12:44 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 14/05/2026 18:30, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2026 2:54 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 13/05/2026 18:28, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 9:38 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 08:20, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 6:56 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 05:18, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:02 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-12 07:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is >>>>>>>>>>>>>> merely semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that >>>>>>>>>>>>>> there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr >>>>>>>>>>>>>> example the
    axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as >>>>>>>>>>>>> gibberish

    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this >>>>>>>>>>>> context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some >>>>>>>>>>>> other symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just >>>>>>>>>>>> put side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we >>>>>>>>>>>> many safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups >>>>>>>>>>>> you
    posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong >>>>>>>>>>>>>> semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    I'm curious to know how you would actually address Mikko's >>>>>>>>>> point here. He's pointed out the rather obvious error in your >>>>>>>>>> reading comprehension, but you've simply glossed over the >>>>>>>>>> example.

    In what sense is reCxreay (xriay = yriax) "semantically incoherent"? >>>>>>>>>>
    Andr|-


    Decimal point versus multiplication operator?
    If it is a decimal point then it is incoherent.

    Obviously its nor a decimal point. He gave you the actual axioms >>>>>>>> which define the dot operator, so there should be no dispute as >>>>>>>> to its meaning.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is not decidable from those
    axioms,yet it is clearly semantically coherent.

    Andr|-


    reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is proven true by reCxreCy (xriay = yriax) >>>>>>> which is proven true by the commutative property of multiplication. >>>>>>>
    https://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/blins/classes/fall18/
    math105/ Examples/AlgebraAxioms.pdf

    But then you're introducing a new axiom which isn't part of the
    set of axioms which he introduced.

    My thesis:
    The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed
    in language can be encoded as relations between finite strings.

    Therefore, you're not dealing with the same theory.

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*
    Is the scope. That some knucklehead can fail to bother to define
    that "cats are animals" so that his knucklehead formal system
    does not know this IS OFF-TOPIC.

    The entire body of knowledge includes that i-# = -1, j-# = -1, k-# = -1, >>>> and ijk = -1. From these we can infer that ij = k and ji = -k and
    that ij rea ji, at least when we are talking about Hamilton's
    quaternions.

    i-| =-a i
    i-# = -1
    i-| = -i

    The entire body of general knowledge expressed in
    language includes the "atomic facts" about imaginary
    numbers in a finite list and the semantic relations
    between finite strings in a finite list such that
    any combination of the above can be derived, no
    longer a finite list.

    Imaginary numbers themselves may be an incoherent notion.
    In this case they would not be included in the body of
    knowledge.

    So a part of the body of knowledge is that multiplication is not
    commutative except in restricted domains, so your above claim to
    the contrary is not true.

    It would be defined separately for each domain.

    You claimed that all undecidability is merely semantic incoherence but
    my counter-example proved you wrong. You tried to deny the validity of
    mmy counter-example claim but failed.

    As I said, the axiom system

    reCx (1riax = x)
    reCx (xria1 = x)
    reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. You got distracted by the example of
    an undecdable sentence so lets try another example. What semantic
    incoherence makes the sentence

    reax (x rea 1)

    undecidable?
    --
    Mikko
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to sci.logic,comp.theory,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sat May 16 12:24:57 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 15/05/2026 17:27, olcott wrote:
    On 5/15/2026 12:48 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 14/05/2026 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2026 3:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 13/05/2026 14:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:14 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 12/05/2026 16:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 2:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 09/05/2026 15:13, olcott wrote:
    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> body of
    knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you think
    that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sentences X True(X) is unknown and there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is no method to find out. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I don't know about philosophers but >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians and logicians don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> find it interesting if all you can say >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that all knowledge is knowable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and everything else is not. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on whether
    or not the truth value of the Goldbach >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> conjecture was
    known. He seemed to think that there are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> alternative
    analytical frameworks that make the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> specifically
    because all "undecidability" when >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (a) Semantic incoherence >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (b) Unknown truth values. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Undecidability ia based on there being a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> well as the basic halting problem) involves >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a situations that have _no_ coherent answer, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not just one that can be known by not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. An universalTuring machine halts >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with some inputs and doesn't halt with any other >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input. Every Turing machine that can be given >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the same input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> accept some input with which >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that universal Turing machine halts or fails >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to reject some input with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> which that universal Turing macnie does not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> halt.

    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i can't read if u can't explain >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that tries to put the Nth digit from the Nth >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> circle- free machine as the Nth digit on this >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal across all circle- free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines nor digit positions >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> are more numerous than natural numbers. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> compute the diagonal because of the paradox that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ensues when naively running the classifier on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computes a number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> compute it if you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. But it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dovetailing machine to compute turing's diagonal, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You should not say anything about the diagonal before >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you have defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> across circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in the paper, defined at the bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> be computed by applying a finite set of finite string >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be >>>>>>>>>>>>>> useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>> computed is
    in that "everything else".

    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true" >>>>>>>>>>>>> that has no truth value.

    I don't think knowing the truth value of that would be >>>>>>>>>>>> useful. At least
    not for any important purpose.

    Knowing that all undecidability is merely semantic
    incoherence enables:

    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    to be reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge. >>>>>>>>>>
    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is merely >>>>>>>>>> semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that there is >>>>>>>>>> undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example the >>>>>>>>>> axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as gibberish >>>>>>>>
    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this
    context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other >>>>>>>> symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put >>>>>>>> side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many >>>>>>>> safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you >>>>>>>> posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like

    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong >>>>>>>>>> semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    The truth about climate change and election fraud could
    be computed.

    Not without real world information.

    Yes, so what?

    So the biggest problem is not how to compute but how to get and >>>>>>>> verify
    the relevant real world infomration.

    A set of "atomic facts" does exist. We only nee to write> them
    all down.

    THat is a lot of work that can never be completed.


    It can be completed with sufficient automation.

    No, it can't. It is not completed before it contains all material that >>>> will be published.

    The place to start would be published textbooks.

    How long does it take to read all texbooks published in one year?

    IDK, an LLM might do this in five minutes.

    No, because in that time it cannot access all of the material. And
    it takes time to extract atomic facts and to store them into a big
    database.


    LLM would have to be taught how to extract facts.
    If it takes then ten times longer to extract all
    the facts of a body of text they will still be done
    with every textbook ever written after one year.

    Then peer reviewed papers.

    Now long does it take to read all reviewed papers published in one >>>>>> year?

    Then published newspaper articles.

    How long does it take to read all newspaper articles publised in one >>>>>> year?

    An LLM might read everything ever published in one year.

    During that year more is publised.


    I may be one or two days out-of-sync far far better
    than any human.

    And what to do with the "atomic facts" that conflict each other? >>>>>>>>> All knowledge that can be expressed in language would
    include the exact (x,y,z) coordinates of every atom of your
    body relative to the exact center of the Earth every millisecond. >>>>>>>>> Because this degree of detail is not physically implementable >>>>>>>>> to implement my system we exclude most specific details. It
    is a system of general knowledge of about 200 petabytes.

    Of course you may postulate that
    the climate is immutable or that there was massimbe undetected >>>>>>>>>> fraud
    in the last or some earlier election but that is not what the >>>>>>>>>> word
    "knowledge" means.

    The key elements of election fraud are two things:
    (a) There was no actual evidence of election fraud
    that could have possibly changed the results.

    The key element of elction fraud is to find a vulnerability in the >>>>>>>> election procedure.


    There has only been 1620 total documented cases in the USA
    in the last 30 years. Every investigation into fraud by
    audits found a few more votes against Trump than prior to
    the audit. Each of the 60 election fraud cases Trump lost.
    He lost because his lawyers could not tell the wild stories
    that he was telling the public without getting themselves
    convicted of perjury.

    These these fact were unconvincing seems to prove that
    his supporters are in a cult.

    But not that there were no fraud performed skillfully enough to avoid >>>>>> detection. What was found was only small unintentional errors that >>>>>> nobody tried to hide.

    Likewise there is no perfect logical proof that
    can possibly exist that five minutes ago ever existed.
    It may also be the case that all of reality is entirely
    fictional.

    That is right. But that is not relevant to our understanding of the
    assumed processes that given the world the form it has now or that
    we can expect it to have in the near future. Perhaps the world is
    just God's thought but if it is it seems to be a coherent thought.


    Correct, to we just encode all of this in language.

    Within the possibly false assumption that reality is
    not fictional and five minutes ago did exist then
    Trump is merely copying Hitler's big lie about election
    fraud is as certain as certain can possibly be.

    When did Hitler claim anything about an election fraud?

    Chapter 6 of Mein Kampf
    "The receptive powers of the masses are very
    restricted, and their understanding is feeble.
    On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such
    being the case, all effective propaganda must
    be confined to a few bare essentials and those
    must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped
    formulas. These slogans should be persistently
    repeated until the very last individual has come
    to grasp the idea that has been put forward."

    Provides the details of Hitler's propaganda system.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie#2020_stolen_election_claims

    Looks like a confessison that you lied.

    I did not say it as clearly as I could have said it.
    Trump did exactly copy Hitler's "big lie" propaganda
    system from Hitler's Chapter Six "War Propaganda"
    system of Hitler's Mein Kampf in Trump's lies about
    election fraud.

    You still don't say it as clearly as you should. Trump obviously applies
    same propaganda methods as Hitler did. Why not? They worked for Hitler
    and they work for Trump, too. This explains Trups claims about an
    election fraud but is irrelevant to the question whether there was an
    election fraud and how much frauds affected the results.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sat May 16 05:08:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/16/2026 1:45 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 8:46 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 10:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 5:07 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*

    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. There's >>>>>> over 8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different,
    often contradictory things. And, with the exception of theorems of >>>>>> formal systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute
    certainty. Only varying degrees of certainty, but for every given >>>>>> fact you won't get a universal consensus on exactly how certain we >>>>>> are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Until you can produce this finite set of atomic facts you're all
    just bluster. Here's a few statements. Which would you consider
    atomic facts:

    rCo The Universe is 14 billion years old.

    rCo The Ungulates and the Carnivores form a clade.

    rCo Jesus Christ died for our sins.

    rCo Nearly 70% of the mass-energy of the universe consists of dark
    energy.

    rCo Anthropogenic climate change is currently occurring.

    rCo The Earth is 6000 years old.

    rCo Argentinosaurus is the largest land animal to ever have lived.

    rCo Measles vaccine causes autism.

    rCo There exists an "island of stability" where extraheavy elements
    with approximately 184 neutrons will have a considerably longer
    half- life than that of the heaviest elements currently know.

    rCo Turing showed that halting cannot be computed.

    actually his proof was in regards to circle-free vs circular
    machines, not specifically halting ones. please do read p246 and p247
    of his paper /on computable numbers/ more carefully.


    As with G||del, I don't give a rat's ass about the convoluted
    mess of his paper. Unless we boil these things down to their
    barest possible essence they greatly exceed the capacity of
    any human mind.

    and what he showed was that it cannot be computed by a single turing
    machine.


    Only because he used a fucking dishonest trick that
    proof theoretic semantics would toss out on its ass.

    no one has demonstrated any _actual_ turing machine with a halting
    behavior that provably cannot be computed by _any_ machine, as such a
    machine would have under-specified, non-determinable semantics that
    then could not actually exist as a real machine, that any actual
    decider would actually have to decide upon...

    the theory of computing has predicated itself on a limitation that
    fundamentally resolves to a catch-22 type paradox that has existed
    since turing wrote his first paper /on computable numbers/


    Its essentially the same damn thing as the Liar Paradox
    that mindless robot humans still have not agreed on. The
    brains of most humans are hard-wired to short-circuit. To
    woefully fallible humans textbooks are the word of God.
    Proof theoretic semantics sees right through this crap.


    it just isn't polcott...

    the liar's paradox is a sentence that is false, in regards to nothing.
    what is it false about? who the fuck knows Efn+


    Can Carol correctly answer rCLnorCY to this (yes/no) question? (Hehner:2018:2) When we understand that the linguistic context of who is asked the
    question is an aspect of the full meaning of this question then we have
    a (yes/no) question that is defined to have no correct (yes/no) answer.
    When anyone else besides Carol is asked this question the linguistic
    context changes making it a different question. This seems isomorphic to
    the above halting problem proof quesition.

    Can Carol correctly answer rCLnorCY to this (yes/no) question?
    E C R Hehner. Objective and Subjective Specifications
    WST Workshop on Termination, Oxford. 2018 July 18.
    See https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hehner/OSS.pdf

    So when you do not stupidly ignore the context of who is
    asked that is inherently an aspect of the full meaning of
    the question then both Carol's question asked when Carol is
    asked and the halting problem Proof Theoretic Semantics
    halt prover HHH when asked Does your input DD halts are asked
    questions lacking correct answers making the question itself
    incorrect.

    godel's sentence is a truth, about nothing, that has no proof. what is
    that truth?? again, who the fuck knows Efn+Efn+

    turing's diagonal, however, is computing an explicitly defined object.
    it is trying to take the n-th digit from the n-th circle-free machine,
    and constructing it into the n-th digit of a "diagonal" ... and
    stumbling on the fact it never defined a digit for itself on that diagonal

    turing's diagonal isn't a "dishonest" trick. he legitimately got stumped
    by trying to compute an explicitly defined object, and figured it
    supported godel's result

    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,comp.theory,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sat May 16 05:11:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/16/2026 4:15 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 15/05/2026 17:24, olcott wrote:
    On 5/15/2026 12:44 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 14/05/2026 18:30, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2026 2:54 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 13/05/2026 18:28, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 9:38 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 08:20, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 6:56 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 05:18, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:02 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-12 07:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> merely semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> example the
    axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as >>>>>>>>>>>>>> gibberish

    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In >>>>>>>>>>>>> this context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some >>>>>>>>>>>>> other symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just >>>>>>>>>>>>> put side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we >>>>>>>>>>>>> many safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the >>>>>>>>>>>>> groups you
    posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    I'm curious to know how you would actually address Mikko's >>>>>>>>>>> point here. He's pointed out the rather obvious error in your >>>>>>>>>>> reading comprehension, but you've simply glossed over the >>>>>>>>>>> example.

    In what sense is reCxreay (xriay = yriax) "semantically incoherent"?

    Andr|-


    Decimal point versus multiplication operator?
    If it is a decimal point then it is incoherent.

    Obviously its nor a decimal point. He gave you the actual
    axioms which define the dot operator, so there should be no >>>>>>>>> dispute as to its meaning.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is not decidable from those
    axioms,yet it is clearly semantically coherent.

    Andr|-


    reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is proven true by reCxreCy (xriay = yriax) >>>>>>>> which is proven true by the commutative property of multiplication. >>>>>>>>
    https://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/blins/classes/fall18/
    math105/ Examples/AlgebraAxioms.pdf

    But then you're introducing a new axiom which isn't part of the >>>>>>> set of axioms which he introduced.

    My thesis:
    The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed
    in language can be encoded as relations between finite strings.

    Therefore, you're not dealing with the same theory.

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*
    Is the scope. That some knucklehead can fail to bother to define
    that "cats are animals" so that his knucklehead formal system
    does not know this IS OFF-TOPIC.

    The entire body of knowledge includes that i-# = -1, j-# = -1, k-# = -1, >>>>> and ijk = -1. From these we can infer that ij = k and ji = -k and
    that ij rea ji, at least when we are talking about Hamilton's
    quaternions.

    i-| =-a i
    i-# = -1
    i-| = -i

    The entire body of general knowledge expressed in
    language includes the "atomic facts" about imaginary
    numbers in a finite list and the semantic relations
    between finite strings in a finite list such that
    any combination of the above can be derived, no
    longer a finite list.

    Imaginary numbers themselves may be an incoherent notion.
    In this case they would not be included in the body of
    knowledge.

    So a part of the body of knowledge is that multiplication is not
    commutative except in restricted domains, so your above claim to
    the contrary is not true.

    It would be defined separately for each domain.

    You claimed that all undecidability

    Within the body of knowledge that can be expressed in
    language. is merely semantic incoherence.
    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,comp.theory,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sat May 16 05:16:14 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/16/2026 4:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 15/05/2026 17:27, olcott wrote:
    On 5/15/2026 12:48 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 14/05/2026 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2026 3:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 13/05/2026 14:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:14 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 12/05/2026 16:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 2:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 09/05/2026 15:13, olcott wrote:
    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> body of
    knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you think
    that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sentences X True(X) is unknown and there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is no method to find out. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I don't know about philosophers but >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians and logicians don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> find it interesting if all you can say >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that all knowledge is knowable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and everything else is not. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on whether
    or not the truth value of the Goldbach >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> conjecture was
    known. He seemed to think that there are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> alternative
    analytical frameworks that make the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> specifically
    because all "undecidability" when >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (a) Semantic incoherence >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (b) Unknown truth values. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Undecidability ia based on there being a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (as well as the basic halting problem) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> involves a situations that have _no_ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> coherent answer, not just one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known by not computed ... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Turing proved that there are universal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Turing machines. An universalTuring machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> halts with some inputs and doesn't halt with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> given the same input as an >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> universal Turing machine either fails to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> accept some input with which >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that universal Turing machine halts or fails >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to reject some input with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> which that universal Turing macnie does not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> halt.

    dunno what ur saying here. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    There is a way to find out if you can read. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i can't read if u can't explain >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that tries to put the Nth digit from the Nth >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> circle- free machine as the Nth digit on this >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal across all circle- free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines nor digit positions >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> are more numerous than natural numbers. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> compute the diagonal because of the paradox >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that ensues when naively running the classifier >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computes a number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> compute it if you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. But it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dovetailing machine to compute turing's diagonal, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You should not say anything about the diagonal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> before you have defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> across circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as +#' >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in the paper, defined at the bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> be computed by applying a finite set of finite string >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computed is
    in that "everything else".

    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true" >>>>>>>>>>>>>> that has no truth value.

    I don't think knowing the truth value of that would be >>>>>>>>>>>>> useful. At least
    not for any important purpose.

    Knowing that all undecidability is merely semantic
    incoherence enables:

    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    to be reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge. >>>>>>>>>>>
    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is merely >>>>>>>>>>> semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that >>>>>>>>>>> there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example the >>>>>>>>>>> axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as gibberish >>>>>>>>>
    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this >>>>>>>>> context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other >>>>>>>>> symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put >>>>>>>>> side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many >>>>>>>>> safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you >>>>>>>>> posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like >>>>>>>>>>>
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong >>>>>>>>>>> semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    The truth about climate change and election fraud could >>>>>>>>>>>> be computed.

    Not without real world information.

    Yes, so what?

    So the biggest problem is not how to compute but how to get and >>>>>>>>> verify
    the relevant real world infomration.

    A set of "atomic facts" does exist. We only nee to write> them >>>>>>>> all down.

    THat is a lot of work that can never be completed.


    It can be completed with sufficient automation.

    No, it can't. It is not completed before it contains all material that >>>>> will be published.

    The place to start would be published textbooks.

    How long does it take to read all texbooks published in one year? >>>>>>
    IDK, an LLM might do this in five minutes.

    No, because in that time it cannot access all of the material. And
    it takes time to extract atomic facts and to store them into a big
    database.


    LLM would have to be taught how to extract facts.
    If it takes then ten times longer to extract all
    the facts of a body of text they will still be done
    with every textbook ever written after one year.

    Then peer reviewed papers.

    Now long does it take to read all reviewed papers published in
    one year?

    Then published newspaper articles.

    How long does it take to read all newspaper articles publised in one >>>>>>> year?

    An LLM might read everything ever published in one year.

    During that year more is publised.


    I may be one or two days out-of-sync far far better
    than any human.

    And what to do with the "atomic facts" that conflict each other? >>>>>>>>>> All knowledge that can be expressed in language would
    include the exact (x,y,z) coordinates of every atom of your >>>>>>>>>> body relative to the exact center of the Earth every millisecond. >>>>>>>>>> Because this degree of detail is not physically implementable >>>>>>>>>> to implement my system we exclude most specific details. It >>>>>>>>>> is a system of general knowledge of about 200 petabytes.

    Of course you may postulate that
    the climate is immutable or that there was massimbe
    undetected fraud
    in the last or some earlier election but that is not what the >>>>>>>>>>> word
    "knowledge" means.

    The key elements of election fraud are two things:
    (a) There was no actual evidence of election fraud
    that could have possibly changed the results.

    The key element of elction fraud is to find a vulnerability in the >>>>>>>>> election procedure.


    There has only been 1620 total documented cases in the USA
    in the last 30 years. Every investigation into fraud by
    audits found a few more votes against Trump than prior to
    the audit. Each of the 60 election fraud cases Trump lost.
    He lost because his lawyers could not tell the wild stories
    that he was telling the public without getting themselves
    convicted of perjury.

    These these fact were unconvincing seems to prove that
    his supporters are in a cult.

    But not that there were no fraud performed skillfully enough to >>>>>>> avoid
    detection. What was found was only small unintentional errors that >>>>>>> nobody tried to hide.

    Likewise there is no perfect logical proof that
    can possibly exist that five minutes ago ever existed.
    It may also be the case that all of reality is entirely
    fictional.

    That is right. But that is not relevant to our understanding of the
    assumed processes that given the world the form it has now or that
    we can expect it to have in the near future. Perhaps the world is
    just God's thought but if it is it seems to be a coherent thought.


    Correct, to we just encode all of this in language.

    Within the possibly false assumption that reality is
    not fictional and five minutes ago did exist then
    Trump is merely copying Hitler's big lie about election
    fraud is as certain as certain can possibly be.

    When did Hitler claim anything about an election fraud?

    Chapter 6 of Mein Kampf
    "The receptive powers of the masses are very
    restricted, and their understanding is feeble.
    On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such
    being the case, all effective propaganda must
    be confined to a few bare essentials and those
    must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped
    formulas. These slogans should be persistently
    repeated until the very last individual has come
    to grasp the idea that has been put forward."

    Provides the details of Hitler's propaganda system.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie#2020_stolen_election_claims

    Looks like a confessison that you lied.

    I did not say it as clearly as I could have said it.
    Trump did exactly copy Hitler's "big lie" propaganda
    system from Hitler's Chapter Six "War Propaganda"
    system of Hitler's Mein Kampf in Trump's lies about
    election fraud.

    You still don't say it as clearly as you should. Trump obviously applies
    same propaganda methods as Hitler did. Why not? They worked for Hitler
    and they work for Trump, too. This explains Trups claims about an
    election fraud but is irrelevant to the question whether there was an election fraud and how much frauds affected the results.


    There is no evidence of election fraud and there is
    much evidence that Trump is lying about election fraud
    using Hilter's own system of lies therefore rational
    minds would conclude that the evidence supports Trump
    is lying about election fraud though fascist methods.
    --
    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 knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sat May 16 07:58:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 05/15/2026 11:45 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 8:46 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 10:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 5:07 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language*

    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. There's
    over 8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different,
    often contradictory things. And, with the exception of theorems of >>>>>> formal systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute
    certainty. Only varying degrees of certainty, but for every given
    fact you won't get a universal consensus on exactly how certain we >>>>>> are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Until you can produce this finite set of atomic facts you're all
    just bluster. Here's a few statements. Which would you consider
    atomic facts:

    rCo The Universe is 14 billion years old.

    rCo The Ungulates and the Carnivores form a clade.

    rCo Jesus Christ died for our sins.

    rCo Nearly 70% of the mass-energy of the universe consists of dark
    energy.

    rCo Anthropogenic climate change is currently occurring.

    rCo The Earth is 6000 years old.

    rCo Argentinosaurus is the largest land animal to ever have lived.

    rCo Measles vaccine causes autism.

    rCo There exists an "island of stability" where extraheavy elements
    with approximately 184 neutrons will have a considerably longer
    half- life than that of the heaviest elements currently know.

    rCo Turing showed that halting cannot be computed.

    actually his proof was in regards to circle-free vs circular
    machines, not specifically halting ones. please do read p246 and p247
    of his paper /on computable numbers/ more carefully.


    As with G||del, I don't give a rat's ass about the convoluted
    mess of his paper. Unless we boil these things down to their
    barest possible essence they greatly exceed the capacity of
    any human mind.

    and what he showed was that it cannot be computed by a single turing
    machine.


    Only because he used a fucking dishonest trick that
    proof theoretic semantics would toss out on its ass.

    no one has demonstrated any _actual_ turing machine with a halting
    behavior that provably cannot be computed by _any_ machine, as such a
    machine would have under-specified, non-determinable semantics that
    then could not actually exist as a real machine, that any actual
    decider would actually have to decide upon...

    the theory of computing has predicated itself on a limitation that
    fundamentally resolves to a catch-22 type paradox that has existed
    since turing wrote his first paper /on computable numbers/


    Its essentially the same damn thing as the Liar Paradox
    that mindless robot humans still have not agreed on. The
    brains of most humans are hard-wired to short-circuit. To
    woefully fallible humans textbooks are the word of God.
    Proof theoretic semantics sees right through this crap.


    it just isn't polcott...

    the liar's paradox is a sentence that is false, in regards to nothing.
    what is it false about? who the fuck knows Efn+

    godel's sentence is a truth, about nothing, that has no proof. what is
    that truth?? again, who the fuck knows Efn+Efn+

    turing's diagonal, however, is computing an explicitly defined object.
    it is trying to take the n-th digit from the n-th circle-free machine,
    and constructing it into the n-th digit of a "diagonal" ... and
    stumbling on the fact it never defined a digit for itself on that diagonal

    turing's diagonal isn't a "dishonest" trick. he legitimately got stumped
    by trying to compute an explicitly defined object, and figured it
    supported godel's result


    Ever heard of Yaroslav Sergeyev?

    How about Simon Stevin?

    You must have heard of Zeno.

    Then, I imagine you remember geometry and the compass and edge,
    and about classical constructions.

    So, if you add an Archimedean spiral to compass and edge,
    all of a sudden the "angle-trisection" and "squaring the
    circle" and "doubling the cube" are constructible, since
    it's a new elementary object that happens to fulfill
    making it so that these otherwise "impossible" constructions
    are not impossible any-more.

    Have you heard of Ruffini-Abel and the insolvability of
    the quintic? It presumes a limited set of elementary
    functions, it doesn't say the quintic doesn't have
    solutions, only as among some usual elementary functions.

    So, Turing didn't have a "Zeno machine" architecture,
    while it's figured that nature in its continuity
    solves Turing problems all the time.


    Then, mathematical idea of the infinite make for that
    number theorists like Erdos make constructions that
    disagree, about the laws of large numbers and limits
    and the inductive limit (beyond classical constructions),
    the "infinite" limit and the "continuum" limit, make
    for things in mathematics that are called "emergence"
    after "convergence" since "convergence" would never arrive.


    Anyways people can look to Mirimanoff who points out
    that an infinitely-many would have an infinitely-grand,
    and then take Goedel's theorem and point out that
    that's the first obvious thing to Goedel's missing
    sentence to be, "extra-ordinary".

    It's obvious, or "duh".


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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sat May 16 08:29:48 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 05/16/2026 07:58 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/15/2026 11:45 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 8:46 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 10:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 5:07 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language* >>>>>>>
    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. There's >>>>>>> over 8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different,
    often contradictory things. And, with the exception of theorems of >>>>>>> formal systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute
    certainty. Only varying degrees of certainty, but for every given >>>>>>> fact you won't get a universal consensus on exactly how certain we >>>>>>> are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Until you can produce this finite set of atomic facts you're all
    just bluster. Here's a few statements. Which would you consider
    atomic facts:

    rCo The Universe is 14 billion years old.

    rCo The Ungulates and the Carnivores form a clade.

    rCo Jesus Christ died for our sins.

    rCo Nearly 70% of the mass-energy of the universe consists of dark
    energy.

    rCo Anthropogenic climate change is currently occurring.

    rCo The Earth is 6000 years old.

    rCo Argentinosaurus is the largest land animal to ever have lived.

    rCo Measles vaccine causes autism.

    rCo There exists an "island of stability" where extraheavy elements
    with approximately 184 neutrons will have a considerably longer
    half- life than that of the heaviest elements currently know.

    rCo Turing showed that halting cannot be computed.

    actually his proof was in regards to circle-free vs circular
    machines, not specifically halting ones. please do read p246 and p247
    of his paper /on computable numbers/ more carefully.


    As with G||del, I don't give a rat's ass about the convoluted
    mess of his paper. Unless we boil these things down to their
    barest possible essence they greatly exceed the capacity of
    any human mind.

    and what he showed was that it cannot be computed by a single turing
    machine.


    Only because he used a fucking dishonest trick that
    proof theoretic semantics would toss out on its ass.

    no one has demonstrated any _actual_ turing machine with a halting
    behavior that provably cannot be computed by _any_ machine, as such a
    machine would have under-specified, non-determinable semantics that
    then could not actually exist as a real machine, that any actual
    decider would actually have to decide upon...

    the theory of computing has predicated itself on a limitation that
    fundamentally resolves to a catch-22 type paradox that has existed
    since turing wrote his first paper /on computable numbers/


    Its essentially the same damn thing as the Liar Paradox
    that mindless robot humans still have not agreed on. The
    brains of most humans are hard-wired to short-circuit. To
    woefully fallible humans textbooks are the word of God.
    Proof theoretic semantics sees right through this crap.


    it just isn't polcott...

    the liar's paradox is a sentence that is false, in regards to nothing.
    what is it false about? who the fuck knows Efn+

    godel's sentence is a truth, about nothing, that has no proof. what is
    that truth?? again, who the fuck knows Efn+Efn+

    turing's diagonal, however, is computing an explicitly defined object.
    it is trying to take the n-th digit from the n-th circle-free machine,
    and constructing it into the n-th digit of a "diagonal" ... and
    stumbling on the fact it never defined a digit for itself on that
    diagonal

    turing's diagonal isn't a "dishonest" trick. he legitimately got stumped
    by trying to compute an explicitly defined object, and figured it
    supported godel's result


    Ever heard of Yaroslav Sergeyev?

    How about Simon Stevin?

    You must have heard of Zeno.

    Then, I imagine you remember geometry and the compass and edge,
    and about classical constructions.

    So, if you add an Archimedean spiral to compass and edge,
    all of a sudden the "angle-trisection" and "squaring the
    circle" and "doubling the cube" are constructible, since
    it's a new elementary object that happens to fulfill
    making it so that these otherwise "impossible" constructions
    are not impossible any-more.

    Have you heard of Ruffini-Abel and the insolvability of
    the quintic? It presumes a limited set of elementary
    functions, it doesn't say the quintic doesn't have
    solutions, only as among some usual elementary functions.

    So, Turing didn't have a "Zeno machine" architecture,
    while it's figured that nature in its continuity
    solves Turing problems all the time.


    Then, mathematical idea of the infinite make for that
    number theorists like Erdos make constructions that
    disagree, about the laws of large numbers and limits
    and the inductive limit (beyond classical constructions),
    the "infinite" limit and the "continuum" limit, make
    for things in mathematics that are called "emergence"
    after "convergence" since "convergence" would never arrive.


    Anyways people can look to Mirimanoff who points out
    that an infinitely-many would have an infinitely-grand,
    and then take Goedel's theorem and point out that
    that's the first obvious thing to Goedel's missing
    sentence to be, "extra-ordinary".

    It's obvious, or "duh".



    And, "The Liar" is false about _nothing_ yet itself.

    It's like, in a world where there is no 'but', only 'yet',
    that "the Liar", is the only "but".

    That "there is no but: only yet", is the idea that instead
    of excluded-middle being universal, since it isn't and
    instead only defines a class of propositions that happen
    to be binary predicates, instead that the temporal modal
    relevance logic keeps "yet" as proper.

    "There are IFs, there are ANDs, ...,
    don't really need any BUTs, ..., yet".

    'Yet': it's kind of like 'that', and is implicit anywhere.

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


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  • From phoenix@j63840576@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sat May 16 09:37:12 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/16/2026 07:58 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/15/2026 11:45 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 8:46 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 10:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 5:07 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language* >>>>>>>>
    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. There's >>>>>>>> over 8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different, >>>>>>>> often contradictory things. And, with the exception of theorems of >>>>>>>> formal systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute
    certainty. Only varying degrees of certainty, but for every given >>>>>>>> fact you won't get a universal consensus on exactly how certain we >>>>>>>> are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Until you can produce this finite set of atomic facts you're all
    just bluster. Here's a few statements. Which would you consider
    atomic facts:

    rCo The Universe is 14 billion years old.

    rCo The Ungulates and the Carnivores form a clade.

    rCo Jesus Christ died for our sins.

    rCo Nearly 70% of the mass-energy of the universe consists of dark >>>>>> energy.

    rCo Anthropogenic climate change is currently occurring.

    rCo The Earth is 6000 years old.

    rCo Argentinosaurus is the largest land animal to ever have lived. >>>>>>
    rCo Measles vaccine causes autism.

    rCo There exists an "island of stability" where extraheavy elements >>>>>> with approximately 184 neutrons will have a considerably longer
    half- life than that of the heaviest elements currently know.

    rCo Turing showed that halting cannot be computed.

    actually his proof was in regards to circle-free vs circular
    machines, not specifically halting ones. please do read p246 and p247 >>>>> of his paper /on computable numbers/ more carefully.


    As with G||del, I don't give a rat's ass about the convoluted
    mess of his paper. Unless we boil these things down to their
    barest possible essence they greatly exceed the capacity of
    any human mind.

    and what he showed was that it cannot be computed by a single turing >>>>> machine.


    Only because he used a fucking dishonest trick that
    proof theoretic semantics would toss out on its ass.

    no one has demonstrated any _actual_ turing machine with a halting
    behavior that provably cannot be computed by _any_ machine, as such a >>>>> machine would have under-specified, non-determinable semantics that
    then could not actually exist as a real machine, that any actual
    decider would actually have to decide upon...

    the theory of computing has predicated itself on a limitation that
    fundamentally resolves to a catch-22 type paradox that has existed
    since turing wrote his first paper /on computable numbers/


    Its essentially the same damn thing as the Liar Paradox
    that mindless robot humans still have not agreed on. The
    brains of most humans are hard-wired to short-circuit. To
    woefully fallible humans textbooks are the word of God.
    Proof theoretic semantics sees right through this crap.


    it just isn't polcott...

    the liar's paradox is a sentence that is false, in regards to nothing.
    what is it false about? who the fuck knows Efn+

    godel's sentence is a truth, about nothing, that has no proof. what is
    that truth?? again, who the fuck knows Efn+Efn+

    turing's diagonal, however, is computing an explicitly defined object.
    it is trying to take the n-th digit from the n-th circle-free machine,
    and constructing it into the n-th digit of a "diagonal" ... and
    stumbling on the fact it never defined a digit for itself on that
    diagonal

    turing's diagonal isn't a "dishonest" trick. he legitimately got stumped >>> by trying to compute an explicitly defined object, and figured it
    supported godel's result


    Ever heard of Yaroslav Sergeyev?

    How about Simon Stevin?

    You must have heard of Zeno.

    Then, I imagine you remember geometry and the compass and edge,
    and about classical constructions.

    So, if you add an Archimedean spiral to compass and edge,
    all of a sudden the "angle-trisection" and "squaring the
    circle" and "doubling the cube" are constructible, since
    it's a new elementary object that happens to fulfill
    making it so that these otherwise "impossible" constructions
    are not impossible any-more.

    Have you heard of Ruffini-Abel and the insolvability of
    the quintic? It presumes a limited set of elementary
    functions, it doesn't say the quintic doesn't have
    solutions, only as among some usual elementary functions.

    So, Turing didn't have a "Zeno machine" architecture,
    while it's figured that nature in its continuity
    solves Turing problems all the time.


    Then, mathematical idea of the infinite make for that
    number theorists like Erdos make constructions that
    disagree, about the laws of large numbers and limits
    and the inductive limit (beyond classical constructions),
    the "infinite" limit and the "continuum" limit, make
    for things in mathematics that are called "emergence"
    after "convergence" since "convergence" would never arrive.


    Anyways people can look to Mirimanoff who points out
    that an infinitely-many would have an infinitely-grand,
    and then take Goedel's theorem and point out that
    that's the first obvious thing to Goedel's missing
    sentence to be, "extra-ordinary".

    It's obvious, or "duh".



    And, "The Liar" is false about _nothing_ yet itself.

    It's like, in a world where there is no 'but', only 'yet',
    that "the Liar", is the only "but".

    That "there is no but: only yet", is the idea that instead
    of excluded-middle being universal, since it isn't and
    instead only defines a class of propositions that happen
    to be binary predicates, instead that the temporal modal
    relevance logic keeps "yet" as proper.

    "There are IFs, there are ANDs, ...,
    don't really need any BUTs, ..., yet".

    'Yet': it's kind of like 'that', and is implicit anywhere.

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of 'but.'
    If you can find an exception to this, please show me.
    --
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    War in the west
    War up north
    War down south
    War War
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sat May 16 10:16:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 05/16/2026 08:37 AM, phoenix wrote:
    Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/16/2026 07:58 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/15/2026 11:45 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 8:46 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 10:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 5:07 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language* >>>>>>>>>
    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. There's >>>>>>>>> over 8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different, >>>>>>>>> often contradictory things. And, with the exception of theorems of >>>>>>>>> formal systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute
    certainty. Only varying degrees of certainty, but for every given >>>>>>>>> fact you won't get a universal consensus on exactly how certain we >>>>>>>>> are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Until you can produce this finite set of atomic facts you're all >>>>>>> just bluster. Here's a few statements. Which would you consider
    atomic facts:

    rCo The Universe is 14 billion years old.

    rCo The Ungulates and the Carnivores form a clade.

    rCo Jesus Christ died for our sins.

    rCo Nearly 70% of the mass-energy of the universe consists of dark >>>>>>> energy.

    rCo Anthropogenic climate change is currently occurring.

    rCo The Earth is 6000 years old.

    rCo Argentinosaurus is the largest land animal to ever have lived. >>>>>>>
    rCo Measles vaccine causes autism.

    rCo There exists an "island of stability" where extraheavy elements >>>>>>> with approximately 184 neutrons will have a considerably longer
    half- life than that of the heaviest elements currently know.

    rCo Turing showed that halting cannot be computed.

    actually his proof was in regards to circle-free vs circular
    machines, not specifically halting ones. please do read p246 and p247 >>>>>> of his paper /on computable numbers/ more carefully.


    As with G||del, I don't give a rat's ass about the convoluted
    mess of his paper. Unless we boil these things down to their
    barest possible essence they greatly exceed the capacity of
    any human mind.

    and what he showed was that it cannot be computed by a single turing >>>>>> machine.


    Only because he used a fucking dishonest trick that
    proof theoretic semantics would toss out on its ass.

    no one has demonstrated any _actual_ turing machine with a halting >>>>>> behavior that provably cannot be computed by _any_ machine, as such a >>>>>> machine would have under-specified, non-determinable semantics that >>>>>> then could not actually exist as a real machine, that any actual
    decider would actually have to decide upon...

    the theory of computing has predicated itself on a limitation that >>>>>> fundamentally resolves to a catch-22 type paradox that has existed >>>>>> since turing wrote his first paper /on computable numbers/


    Its essentially the same damn thing as the Liar Paradox
    that mindless robot humans still have not agreed on. The
    brains of most humans are hard-wired to short-circuit. To
    woefully fallible humans textbooks are the word of God.
    Proof theoretic semantics sees right through this crap.


    it just isn't polcott...

    the liar's paradox is a sentence that is false, in regards to nothing. >>>> what is it false about? who the fuck knows Efn+

    godel's sentence is a truth, about nothing, that has no proof. what is >>>> that truth?? again, who the fuck knows Efn+Efn+

    turing's diagonal, however, is computing an explicitly defined object. >>>> it is trying to take the n-th digit from the n-th circle-free machine, >>>> and constructing it into the n-th digit of a "diagonal" ... and
    stumbling on the fact it never defined a digit for itself on that
    diagonal

    turing's diagonal isn't a "dishonest" trick. he legitimately got
    stumped
    by trying to compute an explicitly defined object, and figured it
    supported godel's result


    Ever heard of Yaroslav Sergeyev?

    How about Simon Stevin?

    You must have heard of Zeno.

    Then, I imagine you remember geometry and the compass and edge,
    and about classical constructions.

    So, if you add an Archimedean spiral to compass and edge,
    all of a sudden the "angle-trisection" and "squaring the
    circle" and "doubling the cube" are constructible, since
    it's a new elementary object that happens to fulfill
    making it so that these otherwise "impossible" constructions
    are not impossible any-more.

    Have you heard of Ruffini-Abel and the insolvability of
    the quintic? It presumes a limited set of elementary
    functions, it doesn't say the quintic doesn't have
    solutions, only as among some usual elementary functions.

    So, Turing didn't have a "Zeno machine" architecture,
    while it's figured that nature in its continuity
    solves Turing problems all the time.


    Then, mathematical idea of the infinite make for that
    number theorists like Erdos make constructions that
    disagree, about the laws of large numbers and limits
    and the inductive limit (beyond classical constructions),
    the "infinite" limit and the "continuum" limit, make
    for things in mathematics that are called "emergence"
    after "convergence" since "convergence" would never arrive.


    Anyways people can look to Mirimanoff who points out
    that an infinitely-many would have an infinitely-grand,
    and then take Goedel's theorem and point out that
    that's the first obvious thing to Goedel's missing
    sentence to be, "extra-ordinary".

    It's obvious, or "duh".



    And, "The Liar" is false about _nothing_ yet itself.

    It's like, in a world where there is no 'but', only 'yet',
    that "the Liar", is the only "but".

    That "there is no but: only yet", is the idea that instead
    of excluded-middle being universal, since it isn't and
    instead only defines a class of propositions that happen
    to be binary predicates, instead that the temporal modal
    relevance logic keeps "yet" as proper.

    "There are IFs, there are ANDs, ...,
    don't really need any BUTs, ..., yet".

    'Yet': it's kind of like 'that', and is implicit anywhere.

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of 'but.'
    If you can find an exception to this, please show me.


    Perhaps most striking is that "yet" and "but" often could stand
    in for each other in the simple posing or positing of contraries,
    similarly "but not" and "yet not",
    yet "not but" and "not yet" make for entirely opposite sorts
    of suppositions (or suppositiones since Occam), then as with
    regards to, "yet but" as alike "not but" and "but yet" as
    alike either "yet" or "but".


    So, for introducing terms like "multi-valued" or "multi-valent"
    logic, or, the temporal, for time-series data, has it that
    "yet" is overall stronger, more expressive and not less un-ambiguous.

    Then, for an account where a truly classical logic is
    _not_ the quasi-modal, and that "there is no material implication,
    only direct implication", then there is that "yet" instead of
    "but" also makes for the usual account of "assume" that instead
    of "this but that (but this but that ..., fail)" is for along
    the lines of "this yet that: these".


    Anyways I've been using always 'yet' and never 'but'
    for quite some years, and, not missing anything.

    "... but but but but ..." -> contradiction
    "... yet yet yet yet ..." -> contingency


    So, usual accounts of proof-by-contradiction are
    by themselves merely partial and half of accounts,
    of truly classical Chrysippean Aristotlean logic,
    that today is called "modal temporal relevance logic",
    and may include the multi-valent, and has _all_ the
    expressive and decisive power of logic, where,
    for example, that 'but' has not.




    "The "inductive" is very much like the "empirical",
    and "deduction" isn't only about "elimination".


    "There is no but: only yet", reflects that the
    modal and temporally modal relevance logic is
    not about contradictions, instead change.


    The very idea of a Principle of Contradiction
    instead of a Principle of Inversion leads to
    a very simple obstinacy and fallacies like
    those of, "material implication", that aren't so.

    Then a principle of inversion can help arrive
    at a Principle of Sufficient Reason: yet a
    more "Principle of Sufficient, and Thorough, Reason".



    The analytical bridges for abduction about the
    deduction about the impasses of induction, help
    make for the "classical superclassical" reason
    usually attributes to Zeno with the most, "paradoxes",
    that there are none or that there is one a paradox,
    make for a, "wider, fuller dialectic", what makes
    for why "axiomless natural deduction" arrives at
    being the only true theory of Truth, capital Truth.


    Then, that requires a bit of a complete ontological
    commitment, yet at least it's true so won't be wrong. " - 5/31/2025




    "Well, the "paradoxes" of mathematical logic have kind of
    been "decided" one way, the existence of an ordinary inductive
    set, yet, that doesn't always make sense, since, it's stipulated
    that that's so, and there's no right to do that, except in a theory.

    Induction then carries out into the limit, yet it results being
    entirely timid about, after an "inductive limit", some,
    "infinite limit", about some, "continuum limit".

    Now, everybody knows cases for induction, what's so and
    so for the next is so for any iteration. Yet, in the limit, there
    are cases where induction fails. Besides things like convergence
    laws of mathematics, that sometimes don't hold, like Stirling's
    formula for factorial and various laws of convergence, then
    a graphical example is the yin-yang ad infinitum. A circle has
    a constant coefficient relating its cirumference and diameter,
    it's pi. So, two half circles whose diameter are the radii of
    the outer diameter, have the same sum diameter, so they
    have the same sum circumference. Yet, in the limit, those
    go to zero, and the sum of the flat line in the limit, is only
    1, or 2, and not pi. So, induction fails, as an example. Then
    the most usual classical example is the Heap or Sorites,
    how many grains is a heap and this sort thing, and how many
    grains less than a heap is no longer a heap and this sort of thing.
    Then, the most direct example about the discrete and continuous
    is about points and lines, that dividing lines doesn't make a point
    and combining points doesn't make a line, yet it's another axiom
    in today's usual axiomatic descriptive set theory that after making
    models of integers and rationals it's axiomatized the least-upper-bound property thusly that lines are point-sets, then that uncountability
    sits right there and that's said to be "The foundations of mathematics".



    So anyways: sometimes induction fails.

    Then, it takes a wider, fuller, dialectical account of the
    deductive, than what is a one-side partial account of
    the inductive, to make thorough sense.

    So, things like the branching or halting problems,
    well, these have the baggage of having ordinals and
    cardinals together, about an inductive set, which is
    about ordinals (i.e., that inductive cases are serial,
    besides the fact that a separate apparatus, may
    count them).

    It's not even necessarily a fact that there's a standard
    model of integers at all, only bounded if unbounded fragments
    and actually infinite extensions.


    Some have P(halts) around zero,
    some have P(halts) around one,
    some have P(halts) as about .85,
    some have P(halts) as 1/2."



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  • From phoenix@j63840576@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sat May 16 11:38:50 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/16/2026 08:37 AM, phoenix wrote:
    Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/16/2026 07:58 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/15/2026 11:45 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 8:46 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 10:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 5:07 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language* >>>>>>>>>>
    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. There's >>>>>>>>>> over 8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different, >>>>>>>>>> often contradictory things. And, with the exception of
    theorems of
    formal systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute >>>>>>>>>> certainty. Only varying degrees of certainty, but for every given >>>>>>>>>> fact you won't get a universal consensus on exactly how
    certain we
    are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Until you can produce this finite set of atomic facts you're all >>>>>>>> just bluster. Here's a few statements. Which would you consider >>>>>>>> atomic facts:

    rCo The Universe is 14 billion years old.

    rCo The Ungulates and the Carnivores form a clade.

    rCo Jesus Christ died for our sins.

    rCo Nearly 70% of the mass-energy of the universe consists of dark >>>>>>>> energy.

    rCo Anthropogenic climate change is currently occurring.

    rCo The Earth is 6000 years old.

    rCo Argentinosaurus is the largest land animal to ever have lived. >>>>>>>>
    rCo Measles vaccine causes autism.

    rCo There exists an "island of stability" where extraheavy elements >>>>>>>> with approximately 184 neutrons will have a considerably longer >>>>>>>> half- life than that of the heaviest elements currently know.

    rCo Turing showed that halting cannot be computed.

    actually his proof was in regards to circle-free vs circular
    machines, not specifically halting ones. please do read p246 and >>>>>>> p247
    of his paper /on computable numbers/ more carefully.


    As with G||del, I don't give a rat's ass about the convoluted
    mess of his paper. Unless we boil these things down to their
    barest possible essence they greatly exceed the capacity of
    any human mind.

    and what he showed was that it cannot be computed by a single turing >>>>>>> machine.


    Only because he used a fucking dishonest trick that
    proof theoretic semantics would toss out on its ass.

    no one has demonstrated any _actual_ turing machine with a halting >>>>>>> behavior that provably cannot be computed by _any_ machine, as
    such a
    machine would have under-specified, non-determinable semantics that >>>>>>> then could not actually exist as a real machine, that any actual >>>>>>> decider would actually have to decide upon...

    the theory of computing has predicated itself on a limitation that >>>>>>> fundamentally resolves to a catch-22 type paradox that has existed >>>>>>> since turing wrote his first paper /on computable numbers/


    Its essentially the same damn thing as the Liar Paradox
    that mindless robot humans still have not agreed on. The
    brains of most humans are hard-wired to short-circuit. To
    woefully fallible humans textbooks are the word of God.
    Proof theoretic semantics sees right through this crap.


    it just isn't polcott...

    the liar's paradox is a sentence that is false, in regards to nothing. >>>>> what is it false about? who the fuck knows Efn+

    godel's sentence is a truth, about nothing, that has no proof. what is >>>>> that truth?? again, who the fuck knows Efn+Efn+

    turing's diagonal, however, is computing an explicitly defined object. >>>>> it is trying to take the n-th digit from the n-th circle-free machine, >>>>> and constructing it into the n-th digit of a "diagonal" ... and
    stumbling on the fact it never defined a digit for itself on that
    diagonal

    turing's diagonal isn't a "dishonest" trick. he legitimately got
    stumped
    by trying to compute an explicitly defined object, and figured it
    supported godel's result


    Ever heard of Yaroslav Sergeyev?

    How about Simon Stevin?

    You must have heard of Zeno.

    Then, I imagine you remember geometry and the compass and edge,
    and about classical constructions.

    So, if you add an Archimedean spiral to compass and edge,
    all of a sudden the "angle-trisection" and "squaring the
    circle" and "doubling the cube" are constructible, since
    it's a new elementary object that happens to fulfill
    making it so that these otherwise "impossible" constructions
    are not impossible any-more.

    Have you heard of Ruffini-Abel and the insolvability of
    the quintic? It presumes a limited set of elementary
    functions, it doesn't say the quintic doesn't have
    solutions, only as among some usual elementary functions.

    So, Turing didn't have a "Zeno machine" architecture,
    while it's figured that nature in its continuity
    solves Turing problems all the time.


    Then, mathematical idea of the infinite make for that
    number theorists like Erdos make constructions that
    disagree, about the laws of large numbers and limits
    and the inductive limit (beyond classical constructions),
    the "infinite" limit and the "continuum" limit, make
    for things in mathematics that are called "emergence"
    after "convergence" since "convergence" would never arrive.


    Anyways people can look to Mirimanoff who points out
    that an infinitely-many would have an infinitely-grand,
    and then take Goedel's theorem and point out that
    that's the first obvious thing to Goedel's missing
    sentence to be, "extra-ordinary".

    It's obvious, or "duh".



    And, "The Liar" is false about _nothing_ yet itself.

    It's like, in a world where there is no 'but', only 'yet',
    that "the Liar", is the only "but".

    That "there is no but: only yet", is the idea that instead
    of excluded-middle being universal, since it isn't and
    instead only defines a class of propositions that happen
    to be binary predicates, instead that the temporal modal
    relevance logic keeps "yet" as proper.

    "There are IFs, there are ANDs, ...,
    don't really need any BUTs, ..., yet".

    'Yet': it's kind of like 'that', and is implicit anywhere.

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of 'but.'
    If you can find an exception to this, please show me.


    Perhaps most striking is that "yet" and "but" often could stand
    in for each other in the simple posing or positing of contraries,
    similarly "but not" and "yet not",
    yet "not but" and "not yet" make for entirely opposite sorts
    of suppositions (or suppositiones since Occam), then as with
    regards to, "yet but" as alike "not but" and "but yet" as
    alike either "yet" or "but".


    So, for introducing terms like "multi-valued" or "multi-valent"
    logic, or, the temporal, for time-series data, has it that
    "yet" is overall stronger, more expressive and not less un-ambiguous.

    Then, for an account where a truly classical logic is
    _not_ the quasi-modal, and that "there is no material implication,
    only direct implication", then there is that "yet" instead of
    "but" also makes for the usual account of "assume" that instead
    of "this but that (but this but that ..., fail)" is for along
    the lines of "this yet that: these".


    Anyways I've been using always 'yet' and never 'but'
    for quite some years, and, not missing anything.

    "... but but but but ..." -> contradiction
    "... yet yet yet yet ..." -> contingency


    So, usual accounts of proof-by-contradiction are
    by themselves merely partial and half of accounts,
    of truly classical Chrysippean Aristotlean logic,
    that today is called "modal temporal relevance logic",
    and may include the multi-valent, and has _all_ the
    expressive and decisive power of logic, where,
    for example, that 'but' has not.




    "The "inductive" is very much like the "empirical",
    and "deduction" isn't only about "elimination".


    "There is no but: only yet", reflects that the
    modal and temporally modal relevance logic is
    not about contradictions, instead change.


    The very idea of a Principle of Contradiction
    instead of a Principle of Inversion leads to
    a very simple obstinacy and fallacies like
    those of, "material implication", that aren't so.

    Then a principle of inversion can help arrive
    at a Principle of Sufficient Reason: yet a
    more "Principle of Sufficient, and Thorough, Reason".



    The analytical bridges for abduction about the
    deduction about the impasses of induction, help
    make for the "classical superclassical" reason
    usually attributes to Zeno with the most, "paradoxes",
    that there are none or that there is one a paradox,
    make for a, "wider, fuller dialectic", what makes
    for why "axiomless natural deduction" arrives at
    being the only true theory of Truth, capital Truth.


    Then, that requires a bit of a complete ontological
    commitment, yet at least it's true so won't be wrong. " - 5/31/2025




    "Well, the "paradoxes" of mathematical logic have kind of
    been "decided" one way, the existence of an ordinary inductive
    set, yet, that doesn't always make sense, since, it's stipulated
    that that's so, and there's no right to do that, except in a theory.

    Induction then carries out into the limit, yet it results being
    entirely timid about, after an "inductive limit", some,
    "infinite limit", about some, "continuum limit".

    Now, everybody knows cases for induction, what's so and
    so for the next is so for any iteration. Yet, in the limit, there
    are cases where induction fails. Besides things like convergence
    laws of mathematics, that sometimes don't hold, like Stirling's
    formula for factorial and various laws of convergence, then
    a graphical example is the yin-yang ad infinitum. A circle has
    a constant coefficient relating its cirumference and diameter,
    it's pi. So, two half circles whose diameter are the radii of
    the outer diameter, have the same sum diameter, so they
    have the same sum circumference. Yet, in the limit, those
    go to zero, and the sum of the flat line in the limit, is only
    1, or 2, and not pi. So, induction fails, as an example. Then
    the most usual classical example is the Heap or Sorites,
    how many grains is a heap and this sort thing, and how many
    grains less than a heap is no longer a heap and this sort of thing.
    Then, the most direct example about the discrete and continuous
    is about points and lines, that dividing lines doesn't make a point
    and combining points doesn't make a line, yet it's another axiom
    in today's usual axiomatic descriptive set theory that after making
    models of integers and rationals it's axiomatized the least-upper-bound property thusly that lines are point-sets, then that uncountability
    sits right there and that's said to be "The foundations of mathematics".



    So anyways: sometimes induction fails.

    Then, it takes a wider, fuller, dialectical account of the
    deductive, than what is a one-side partial account of
    the inductive, to make thorough sense.

    So, things like the branching or halting problems,
    well, these have the baggage of having ordinals and
    cardinals together, about an inductive set, which is
    about ordinals (i.e., that inductive cases are serial,
    besides the fact that a separate apparatus, may
    count them).

    It's not even necessarily a fact that there's a standard
    model of integers at all, only bounded if unbounded fragments
    and actually infinite extensions.


    Some have P(halts) around zero,
    some have P(halts) around one,
    some have P(halts) as about .85,
    some have P(halts) as 1/2."




    Except that this is English, and we don't necessarily apply 1/2 to
    'except' and 1/2 to 'yet'. I contend that in some cases either would be applicable, amounting to a modicum of overlap, which means that the sum
    of 'except' and 'yet' is likely to be greater than 1.

    Speaking figuratively, of course.
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    War in the west
    War up north
    War down south
    War War
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sat May 16 11:44:39 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 05/16/2026 10:38 AM, phoenix wrote:
    Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/16/2026 08:37 AM, phoenix wrote:
    Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/16/2026 07:58 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/15/2026 11:45 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 8:46 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 10:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 5:07 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in >>>>>>>>>>>> language*

    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. >>>>>>>>>>> There's
    over 8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different, >>>>>>>>>>> often contradictory things. And, with the exception of
    theorems of
    formal systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute >>>>>>>>>>> certainty. Only varying degrees of certainty, but for every >>>>>>>>>>> given
    fact you won't get a universal consensus on exactly how
    certain we
    are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Until you can produce this finite set of atomic facts you're all >>>>>>>>> just bluster. Here's a few statements. Which would you consider >>>>>>>>> atomic facts:

    rCo The Universe is 14 billion years old.

    rCo The Ungulates and the Carnivores form a clade.

    rCo Jesus Christ died for our sins.

    rCo Nearly 70% of the mass-energy of the universe consists of dark >>>>>>>>> energy.

    rCo Anthropogenic climate change is currently occurring.

    rCo The Earth is 6000 years old.

    rCo Argentinosaurus is the largest land animal to ever have lived. >>>>>>>>>
    rCo Measles vaccine causes autism.

    rCo There exists an "island of stability" where extraheavy elements >>>>>>>>> with approximately 184 neutrons will have a considerably longer >>>>>>>>> half- life than that of the heaviest elements currently know. >>>>>>>>>
    rCo Turing showed that halting cannot be computed.

    actually his proof was in regards to circle-free vs circular
    machines, not specifically halting ones. please do read p246 and >>>>>>>> p247
    of his paper /on computable numbers/ more carefully.


    As with G||del, I don't give a rat's ass about the convoluted
    mess of his paper. Unless we boil these things down to their
    barest possible essence they greatly exceed the capacity of
    any human mind.

    and what he showed was that it cannot be computed by a single
    turing
    machine.


    Only because he used a fucking dishonest trick that
    proof theoretic semantics would toss out on its ass.

    no one has demonstrated any _actual_ turing machine with a halting >>>>>>>> behavior that provably cannot be computed by _any_ machine, as >>>>>>>> such a
    machine would have under-specified, non-determinable semantics that >>>>>>>> then could not actually exist as a real machine, that any actual >>>>>>>> decider would actually have to decide upon...

    the theory of computing has predicated itself on a limitation that >>>>>>>> fundamentally resolves to a catch-22 type paradox that has existed >>>>>>>> since turing wrote his first paper /on computable numbers/


    Its essentially the same damn thing as the Liar Paradox
    that mindless robot humans still have not agreed on. The
    brains of most humans are hard-wired to short-circuit. To
    woefully fallible humans textbooks are the word of God.
    Proof theoretic semantics sees right through this crap.


    it just isn't polcott...

    the liar's paradox is a sentence that is false, in regards to
    nothing.
    what is it false about? who the fuck knows Efn+

    godel's sentence is a truth, about nothing, that has no proof.
    what is
    that truth?? again, who the fuck knows Efn+Efn+

    turing's diagonal, however, is computing an explicitly defined
    object.
    it is trying to take the n-th digit from the n-th circle-free
    machine,
    and constructing it into the n-th digit of a "diagonal" ... and
    stumbling on the fact it never defined a digit for itself on that
    diagonal

    turing's diagonal isn't a "dishonest" trick. he legitimately got
    stumped
    by trying to compute an explicitly defined object, and figured it
    supported godel's result


    Ever heard of Yaroslav Sergeyev?

    How about Simon Stevin?

    You must have heard of Zeno.

    Then, I imagine you remember geometry and the compass and edge,
    and about classical constructions.

    So, if you add an Archimedean spiral to compass and edge,
    all of a sudden the "angle-trisection" and "squaring the
    circle" and "doubling the cube" are constructible, since
    it's a new elementary object that happens to fulfill
    making it so that these otherwise "impossible" constructions
    are not impossible any-more.

    Have you heard of Ruffini-Abel and the insolvability of
    the quintic? It presumes a limited set of elementary
    functions, it doesn't say the quintic doesn't have
    solutions, only as among some usual elementary functions.

    So, Turing didn't have a "Zeno machine" architecture,
    while it's figured that nature in its continuity
    solves Turing problems all the time.


    Then, mathematical idea of the infinite make for that
    number theorists like Erdos make constructions that
    disagree, about the laws of large numbers and limits
    and the inductive limit (beyond classical constructions),
    the "infinite" limit and the "continuum" limit, make
    for things in mathematics that are called "emergence"
    after "convergence" since "convergence" would never arrive.


    Anyways people can look to Mirimanoff who points out
    that an infinitely-many would have an infinitely-grand,
    and then take Goedel's theorem and point out that
    that's the first obvious thing to Goedel's missing
    sentence to be, "extra-ordinary".

    It's obvious, or "duh".



    And, "The Liar" is false about _nothing_ yet itself.

    It's like, in a world where there is no 'but', only 'yet',
    that "the Liar", is the only "but".

    That "there is no but: only yet", is the idea that instead
    of excluded-middle being universal, since it isn't and
    instead only defines a class of propositions that happen
    to be binary predicates, instead that the temporal modal
    relevance logic keeps "yet" as proper.

    "There are IFs, there are ANDs, ...,
    don't really need any BUTs, ..., yet".

    'Yet': it's kind of like 'that', and is implicit anywhere.

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of 'but.'
    If you can find an exception to this, please show me.


    Perhaps most striking is that "yet" and "but" often could stand
    in for each other in the simple posing or positing of contraries,
    similarly "but not" and "yet not",
    yet "not but" and "not yet" make for entirely opposite sorts
    of suppositions (or suppositiones since Occam), then as with
    regards to, "yet but" as alike "not but" and "but yet" as
    alike either "yet" or "but".


    So, for introducing terms like "multi-valued" or "multi-valent"
    logic, or, the temporal, for time-series data, has it that
    "yet" is overall stronger, more expressive and not less un-ambiguous.

    Then, for an account where a truly classical logic is
    _not_ the quasi-modal, and that "there is no material implication,
    only direct implication", then there is that "yet" instead of
    "but" also makes for the usual account of "assume" that instead
    of "this but that (but this but that ..., fail)" is for along
    the lines of "this yet that: these".


    Anyways I've been using always 'yet' and never 'but'
    for quite some years, and, not missing anything.

    "... but but but but ..." -> contradiction
    "... yet yet yet yet ..." -> contingency


    So, usual accounts of proof-by-contradiction are
    by themselves merely partial and half of accounts,
    of truly classical Chrysippean Aristotlean logic,
    that today is called "modal temporal relevance logic",
    and may include the multi-valent, and has _all_ the
    expressive and decisive power of logic, where,
    for example, that 'but' has not.




    "The "inductive" is very much like the "empirical",
    and "deduction" isn't only about "elimination".


    "There is no but: only yet", reflects that the
    modal and temporally modal relevance logic is
    not about contradictions, instead change.


    The very idea of a Principle of Contradiction
    instead of a Principle of Inversion leads to
    a very simple obstinacy and fallacies like
    those of, "material implication", that aren't so.

    Then a principle of inversion can help arrive
    at a Principle of Sufficient Reason: yet a
    more "Principle of Sufficient, and Thorough, Reason".



    The analytical bridges for abduction about the
    deduction about the impasses of induction, help
    make for the "classical superclassical" reason
    usually attributes to Zeno with the most, "paradoxes",
    that there are none or that there is one a paradox,
    make for a, "wider, fuller dialectic", what makes
    for why "axiomless natural deduction" arrives at
    being the only true theory of Truth, capital Truth.


    Then, that requires a bit of a complete ontological
    commitment, yet at least it's true so won't be wrong. " - 5/31/2025




    "Well, the "paradoxes" of mathematical logic have kind of
    been "decided" one way, the existence of an ordinary inductive
    set, yet, that doesn't always make sense, since, it's stipulated
    that that's so, and there's no right to do that, except in a theory.

    Induction then carries out into the limit, yet it results being
    entirely timid about, after an "inductive limit", some,
    "infinite limit", about some, "continuum limit".

    Now, everybody knows cases for induction, what's so and
    so for the next is so for any iteration. Yet, in the limit, there
    are cases where induction fails. Besides things like convergence
    laws of mathematics, that sometimes don't hold, like Stirling's
    formula for factorial and various laws of convergence, then
    a graphical example is the yin-yang ad infinitum. A circle has
    a constant coefficient relating its cirumference and diameter,
    it's pi. So, two half circles whose diameter are the radii of
    the outer diameter, have the same sum diameter, so they
    have the same sum circumference. Yet, in the limit, those
    go to zero, and the sum of the flat line in the limit, is only
    1, or 2, and not pi. So, induction fails, as an example. Then
    the most usual classical example is the Heap or Sorites,
    how many grains is a heap and this sort thing, and how many
    grains less than a heap is no longer a heap and this sort of thing.
    Then, the most direct example about the discrete and continuous
    is about points and lines, that dividing lines doesn't make a point
    and combining points doesn't make a line, yet it's another axiom
    in today's usual axiomatic descriptive set theory that after making
    models of integers and rationals it's axiomatized the least-upper-bound
    property thusly that lines are point-sets, then that uncountability
    sits right there and that's said to be "The foundations of mathematics".



    So anyways: sometimes induction fails.

    Then, it takes a wider, fuller, dialectical account of the
    deductive, than what is a one-side partial account of
    the inductive, to make thorough sense.

    So, things like the branching or halting problems,
    well, these have the baggage of having ordinals and
    cardinals together, about an inductive set, which is
    about ordinals (i.e., that inductive cases are serial,
    besides the fact that a separate apparatus, may
    count them).

    It's not even necessarily a fact that there's a standard
    model of integers at all, only bounded if unbounded fragments
    and actually infinite extensions.


    Some have P(halts) around zero,
    some have P(halts) around one,
    some have P(halts) as about .85,
    some have P(halts) as 1/2."




    Except that this is English, and we don't necessarily apply 1/2 to
    'except' and 1/2 to 'yet'. I contend that in some cases either would be applicable, amounting to a modicum of overlap, which means that the sum
    of 'except' and 'yet' is likely to be greater than 1.

    Speaking figuratively, of course.


    Yeah, there are cases where either are applicable,
    basically the non-modal non-contingencies,
    yet, others where only 'yet' applies,
    and none where 'yet' does not apply.

    Then, somebody will introduce "except when ..." or
    "except where..." or other interrogatives as conditions,
    helping show then "except" (or "but") has disambiguating
    expressive power (as alike "adjectival force" or "adverbial
    force"), where yet that "yet where..." or "yet when..."
    would be ambiguous, that's agreeable.


    Thanks for writing. The dialectic of "but" and "yet" besides
    affirmations and negations or about "and but" and "and yet"
    and "but not" and "yet not", now also gets introduced the
    interrogatives and prerogatives, say, then as for new words
    that have always had their meaning, like "postrogatives",
    and, "intra-" and "infra-" -rogatives.


    So, "there is no 'but', only 'yet', yet except when/where/why/...."


    This might not so much "simplify" Church or Curry correspondences,
    yet, is for disambiguating them so they aren't "wrong".


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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sat May 16 12:55:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/16/2026 8:37 AM, phoenix wrote:
    Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/16/2026 07:58 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/15/2026 11:45 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 8:46 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 10:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/13/26 5:07 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:37 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 09:28, olcott wrote:

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language* >>>>>>>>>
    ... is an ill-defined set which only exists in your mind. There's >>>>>>>>> over 8 billion people on earth, all of whom believe different, >>>>>>>>> often contradictory things. And, with the exception of theorems of >>>>>>>>> formal systems, there is nothing that we know with absolute
    certainty. Only varying degrees of certainty, but for every given >>>>>>>>> fact you won't get a universal consensus on exactly how certain we >>>>>>>>> are of that fact.


    So maybe cats were never animals and this "belief"
    has always been mass psychosis? In actual reality
    cats were always a kind of snake?

    I propose that a finite set of "atomic facts" of general
    knowledge inherently exists and that no 100% concrete
    counter-example can ever be found.

    Until you can produce this finite set of atomic facts you're all >>>>>>> just bluster. Here's a few statements. Which would you consider
    atomic facts:

    rCo The Universe is 14 billion years old.

    rCo The Ungulates and the Carnivores form a clade.

    rCo Jesus Christ died for our sins.

    rCo Nearly 70% of the mass-energy of the universe consists of dark >>>>>>> energy.

    rCo Anthropogenic climate change is currently occurring.

    rCo The Earth is 6000 years old.

    rCo Argentinosaurus is the largest land animal to ever have lived. >>>>>>>
    rCo Measles vaccine causes autism.

    rCo There exists an "island of stability" where extraheavy elements >>>>>>> with approximately 184 neutrons will have a considerably longer
    half- life than that of the heaviest elements currently know.

    rCo Turing showed that halting cannot be computed.

    actually his proof was in regards to circle-free vs circular
    machines, not specifically halting ones. please do read p246 and p247 >>>>>> of his paper /on computable numbers/ more carefully.


    As with G||del, I don't give a rat's ass about the convoluted
    mess of his paper. Unless we boil these things down to their
    barest possible essence they greatly exceed the capacity of
    any human mind.

    and what he showed was that it cannot be computed by a single turing >>>>>> machine.


    Only because he used a fucking dishonest trick that
    proof theoretic semantics would toss out on its ass.

    no one has demonstrated any _actual_ turing machine with a halting >>>>>> behavior that provably cannot be computed by _any_ machine, as such a >>>>>> machine would have under-specified, non-determinable semantics that >>>>>> then could not actually exist as a real machine, that any actual
    decider would actually have to decide upon...

    the theory of computing has predicated itself on a limitation that >>>>>> fundamentally resolves to a catch-22 type paradox that has existed >>>>>> since turing wrote his first paper /on computable numbers/


    Its essentially the same damn thing as the Liar Paradox
    that mindless robot humans still have not agreed on. The
    brains of most humans are hard-wired to short-circuit. To
    woefully fallible humans textbooks are the word of God.
    Proof theoretic semantics sees right through this crap.


    it just isn't polcott...

    the liar's paradox is a sentence that is false, in regards to nothing. >>>> what is it false about? who the fuck knows Efn+

    godel's sentence is a truth, about nothing, that has no proof. what is >>>> that truth?? again, who the fuck knows Efn+Efn+

    turing's diagonal, however, is computing an explicitly defined object. >>>> it is trying to take the n-th digit from the n-th circle-free machine, >>>> and constructing it into the n-th digit of a "diagonal" ... and
    stumbling on the fact it never defined a digit for itself on that
    diagonal

    turing's diagonal isn't a "dishonest" trick. he legitimately got
    stumped
    by trying to compute an explicitly defined object, and figured it
    supported godel's result


    Ever heard of Yaroslav Sergeyev?

    How about Simon Stevin?

    You must have heard of Zeno.

    Then, I imagine you remember geometry and the compass and edge,
    and about classical constructions.

    So, if you add an Archimedean spiral to compass and edge,
    all of a sudden the "angle-trisection" and "squaring the
    circle" and "doubling the cube" are constructible, since
    it's a new elementary object that happens to fulfill
    making it so that these otherwise "impossible" constructions
    are not impossible any-more.

    Have you heard of Ruffini-Abel and the insolvability of
    the quintic? It presumes a limited set of elementary
    functions, it doesn't say the quintic doesn't have
    solutions, only as among some usual elementary functions.

    So, Turing didn't have a "Zeno machine" architecture,
    while it's figured that nature in its continuity
    solves Turing problems all the time.


    Then, mathematical idea of the infinite make for that
    number theorists like Erdos make constructions that
    disagree, about the laws of large numbers and limits
    and the inductive limit (beyond classical constructions),
    the "infinite" limit and the "continuum" limit, make
    for things in mathematics that are called "emergence"
    after "convergence" since "convergence" would never arrive.


    Anyways people can look to Mirimanoff who points out
    that an infinitely-many would have an infinitely-grand,
    and then take Goedel's theorem and point out that
    that's the first obvious thing to Goedel's missing
    sentence to be, "extra-ordinary".

    It's obvious, or "duh".



    And, "The Liar" is false about _nothing_ yet itself.

    It's like, in a world where there is no 'but', only 'yet',
    that "the Liar", is the only "but".

    That "there is no but: only yet", is the idea that instead
    of excluded-middle being universal, since it isn't and
    instead only defines a class of propositions that happen
    to be binary predicates, instead that the temporal modal
    relevance logic keeps "yet" as proper.

    "There are IFs, there are ANDs, ...,
    don't really need any BUTs, ..., yet".

    'Yet': it's kind of like 'that', and is implicit anywhere.

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of 'but.'
    If you can find an exception to this, please show me.


    Olcott the moron. phoenix the fool?
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  • From phoenix@j63840576@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sat May 16 15:30:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of 'but.'
    If you can find an exception to this, please show me.

    Or maybe a different tarot, "the star" because you have such a
    fascination with me?
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    War in the west
    War up north
    War down south
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to sci.logic,comp.theory,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sun May 17 12:03:15 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 16/05/2026 13:11, olcott wrote:
    On 5/16/2026 4:15 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 15/05/2026 17:24, olcott wrote:
    On 5/15/2026 12:44 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 14/05/2026 18:30, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2026 2:54 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 13/05/2026 18:28, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 9:38 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 08:20, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 6:56 AM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-13 05:18, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:02 PM, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2026-05-12 07:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> merely semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> example the
    axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> gibberish

    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In >>>>>>>>>>>>>> this context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some >>>>>>>>>>>>>> other symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just >>>>>>>>>>>>>> put side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we >>>>>>>>>>>>>> many safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> groups you
    posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> notiong semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    I'm curious to know how you would actually address Mikko's >>>>>>>>>>>> point here. He's pointed out the rather obvious error in >>>>>>>>>>>> your reading comprehension, but you've simply glossed over >>>>>>>>>>>> the example.

    In what sense is reCxreay (xriay = yriax) "semantically incoherent"?

    Andr|-


    Decimal point versus multiplication operator?
    If it is a decimal point then it is incoherent.

    Obviously its nor a decimal point. He gave you the actual >>>>>>>>>> axioms which define the dot operator, so there should be no >>>>>>>>>> dispute as to its meaning.

    The point is that reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is not decidable from those
    axioms,yet it is clearly semantically coherent.

    Andr|-


    reCxreay (xriay = yriax) is proven true by reCxreCy (xriay = yriax) >>>>>>>>> which is proven true by the commutative property of
    multiplication.

    https://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/blins/classes/fall18/
    math105/ Examples/AlgebraAxioms.pdf

    But then you're introducing a new axiom which isn't part of the >>>>>>>> set of axioms which he introduced.

    My thesis:
    The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed
    in language can be encoded as relations between finite strings.

    Therefore, you're not dealing with the same theory.

    *The entire body of knowledge that can be expressed in language* >>>>>>> Is the scope. That some knucklehead can fail to bother to define >>>>>>> that "cats are animals" so that his knucklehead formal system
    does not know this IS OFF-TOPIC.

    The entire body of knowledge includes that i-# = -1, j-# = -1, k-# = -1, >>>>>> and ijk = -1. From these we can infer that ij = k and ji = -k and
    that ij rea ji, at least when we are talking about Hamilton's
    quaternions.

    i-| =-a i
    i-# = -1
    i-| = -i

    The entire body of general knowledge expressed in
    language includes the "atomic facts" about imaginary
    numbers in a finite list and the semantic relations
    between finite strings in a finite list such that
    any combination of the above can be derived, no
    longer a finite list.

    Imaginary numbers themselves may be an incoherent notion.
    In this case they would not be included in the body of
    knowledge.

    So a part of the body of knowledge is that multiplication is not
    commutative except in restricted domains, so your above claim to
    the contrary is not true.

    It would be defined separately for each domain.

    You claimed that all undecidability

    Within the body of knowledge that can be expressed in
    language. is merely semantic incoherence
    That the set of axioms

    reCx (xria1 = x)
    reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes is a part of the body of knoledge that
    can be expressied i language. And so is the fact that that system
    is incomplete, i.e., there are undecidable statements. But neither
    the undecidability nor your unjustified claims about semantic in-
    coherence prevent its use when it is useful.
    --
    Mikko

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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to sci.logic,comp.theory,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sun May 17 12:08:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 16/05/2026 13:16, olcott wrote:
    On 5/16/2026 4:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 15/05/2026 17:27, olcott wrote:
    On 5/15/2026 12:48 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 14/05/2026 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2026 3:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 13/05/2026 14:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:14 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 12/05/2026 16:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 2:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 09/05/2026 15:13, olcott wrote:
    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> body of
    knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you think
    that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sentences X True(X) is unknown and there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is no method to find out. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I don't know about philosophers but >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians and logicians don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> find it interesting if all you can say >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that all knowledge is knowable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and everything else is not. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> alternative
    analytical frameworks that make the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (a) Semantic incoherence >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (b) Unknown truth values. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Undecidability ia based on there being a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (as well as the basic halting problem) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> involves a situations that have _no_ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> coherent answer, not just one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known by not computed ... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Turing proved that there are universal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Turing machines. An universalTuring machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> halts with some inputs and doesn't halt >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> given the same input as an >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> universal Turing machine either fails to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> accept some input with which >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that universal Turing machine halts or >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fails to reject some input with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> which that universal Turing macnie does not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> halt.

    dunno what ur saying here. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    There is a way to find out if you can read. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i can't read if u can't explain >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I can't explain the art of reading Common >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that tries to put the Nth digit from the Nth >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> circle- free machine as the Nth digit on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this diagonal across all circle- free >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine...

    That is possible because there nither the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines nor digit positions >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> are more numerous than natural numbers. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> compute the diagonal because of the paradox >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that ensues when naively running the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> classifier on the diagonal itself >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computes a number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> compute it if you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. But it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dovetailing machine to compute turing's diagonal, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You should not say anything about the diagonal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> before you have defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal" across circle- free sequences, otherwise >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> labeled as +#' in the paper, defined at the bottom of p246 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> be computed by applying a finite set of finite string >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> be useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computed is
    in that "everything else".

    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that has no truth value.

    I don't think knowing the truth value of that would be >>>>>>>>>>>>>> useful. At least
    not for any important purpose.

    Knowing that all undecidability is merely semantic
    incoherence enables:

    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language" >>>>>>>>>>>>> to be reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is >>>>>>>>>>>> merely semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that >>>>>>>>>>>> there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example >>>>>>>>>>>> the
    axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as >>>>>>>>>>> gibberish

    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this >>>>>>>>>> context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some other >>>>>>>>>> symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put >>>>>>>>>> side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many >>>>>>>>>> safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you >>>>>>>>>> posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like >>>>>>>>>>>>
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong >>>>>>>>>>>> semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    The truth about climate change and election fraud could >>>>>>>>>>>>> be computed.

    Not without real world information.

    Yes, so what?

    So the biggest problem is not how to compute but how to get >>>>>>>>>> and verify
    the relevant real world infomration.

    A set of "atomic facts" does exist. We only nee to write> them >>>>>>>>> all down.

    THat is a lot of work that can never be completed.


    It can be completed with sufficient automation.

    No, it can't. It is not completed before it contains all material >>>>>> that
    will be published.

    The place to start would be published textbooks.

    How long does it take to read all texbooks published in one year? >>>>>>>
    IDK, an LLM might do this in five minutes.

    No, because in that time it cannot access all of the material. And >>>>>> it takes time to extract atomic facts and to store them into a big >>>>>> database.


    LLM would have to be taught how to extract facts.
    If it takes then ten times longer to extract all
    the facts of a body of text they will still be done
    with every textbook ever written after one year.

    Then peer reviewed papers.

    Now long does it take to read all reviewed papers published in >>>>>>>> one year?

    Then published newspaper articles.

    How long does it take to read all newspaper articles publised in >>>>>>>> one
    year?

    An LLM might read everything ever published in one year.

    During that year more is publised.


    I may be one or two days out-of-sync far far better
    than any human.

    And what to do with the "atomic facts" that conflict each other? >>>>>>>>>>> All knowledge that can be expressed in language would
    include the exact (x,y,z) coordinates of every atom of your >>>>>>>>>>> body relative to the exact center of the Earth every
    millisecond.
    Because this degree of detail is not physically implementable >>>>>>>>>>> to implement my system we exclude most specific details. It >>>>>>>>>>> is a system of general knowledge of about 200 petabytes. >>>>>>>>>>>
    Of course you may postulate that
    the climate is immutable or that there was massimbe
    undetected fraud
    in the last or some earlier election but that is not what >>>>>>>>>>>> the word
    "knowledge" means.

    The key elements of election fraud are two things:
    (a) There was no actual evidence of election fraud
    that could have possibly changed the results.

    The key element of elction fraud is to find a vulnerability in >>>>>>>>>> the
    election procedure.


    There has only been 1620 total documented cases in the USA
    in the last 30 years. Every investigation into fraud by
    audits found a few more votes against Trump than prior to
    the audit. Each of the 60 election fraud cases Trump lost.
    He lost because his lawyers could not tell the wild stories
    that he was telling the public without getting themselves
    convicted of perjury.

    These these fact were unconvincing seems to prove that
    his supporters are in a cult.

    But not that there were no fraud performed skillfully enough to >>>>>>>> avoid
    detection. What was found was only small unintentional errors that >>>>>>>> nobody tried to hide.

    Likewise there is no perfect logical proof that
    can possibly exist that five minutes ago ever existed.
    It may also be the case that all of reality is entirely
    fictional.

    That is right. But that is not relevant to our understanding of the >>>>>> assumed processes that given the world the form it has now or that >>>>>> we can expect it to have in the near future. Perhaps the world is
    just God's thought but if it is it seems to be a coherent thought. >>>>>>

    Correct, to we just encode all of this in language.

    Within the possibly false assumption that reality is
    not fictional and five minutes ago did exist then
    Trump is merely copying Hitler's big lie about election
    fraud is as certain as certain can possibly be.

    When did Hitler claim anything about an election fraud?

    Chapter 6 of Mein Kampf
    "The receptive powers of the masses are very
    restricted, and their understanding is feeble.
    On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such
    being the case, all effective propaganda must
    be confined to a few bare essentials and those
    must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped
    formulas. These slogans should be persistently
    repeated until the very last individual has come
    to grasp the idea that has been put forward."

    Provides the details of Hitler's propaganda system.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie#2020_stolen_election_claims

    Looks like a confessison that you lied.

    I did not say it as clearly as I could have said it.
    Trump did exactly copy Hitler's "big lie" propaganda
    system from Hitler's Chapter Six "War Propaganda"
    system of Hitler's Mein Kampf in Trump's lies about
    election fraud.

    You still don't say it as clearly as you should. Trump obviously applies
    same propaganda methods as Hitler did. Why not? They worked for Hitler
    and they work for Trump, too. This explains Trups claims about an
    election fraud but is irrelevant to the question whether there was an
    election fraud and how much frauds affected the results.


    There is no evidence of election fraud

    So you say but can't prove.

    and there is
    much evidence that Trump is lying about election fraud
    using Hilter's own system of lies therefore rational
    minds would conclude that the evidence supports Trump
    is lying about election fraud though fascist methods.

    Irrelevant to the question whether there was an undetected election
    fraud. Trump obviously can't know about the fraud if it is undetected.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.lang,sci.math on Sun May 17 08:48:39 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/17/2026 4:08 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 16/05/2026 13:16, olcott wrote:
    On 5/16/2026 4:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 15/05/2026 17:27, olcott wrote:
    On 5/15/2026 12:48 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 14/05/2026 17:40, olcott wrote:
    On 5/14/2026 3:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 13/05/2026 14:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/13/2026 4:14 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 12/05/2026 16:32, olcott wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 11/05/2026 14:44, olcott wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 2:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 09/05/2026 15:13, olcott wrote:
    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sentences X True(X) is unknown and there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is no method to find out. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I don't know about philosophers but >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians and logicians don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> find it interesting if all you can say >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that all knowledge is knowable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and everything else is not. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (a) Semantic incoherence >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (b) Unknown truth values. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Semantic Incoherence, as the definition >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of Undecidability ia based on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being a coherent answer, just not one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that can be determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (as well as the basic halting problem) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> involves a situations that have _no_ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> coherent answer, not just one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known by not computed ... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Turing proved that there are universal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Turing machines. An universalTuring >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine halts with some inputs and doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> halt with any other >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input. Every Turing machine that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> given the same input as an >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> universal Turing machine either fails to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> accept some input with which >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that universal Turing machine halts or >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fails to reject some input with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> which that universal Turing macnie does >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not halt.

    dunno what ur saying here. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    There is a way to find out if you can read. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i can't read if u can't explain >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I can't explain the art of reading Common >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that tries to put the Nth digit from the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nth circle- free machine as the Nth digit >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on this diagonal across all circle- free >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine...

    That is possible because there nither the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines nor digit positions >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> are more numerous than natural numbers. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> compute the diagonal because of the paradox >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that ensues when naively running the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> classifier on the diagonal itself >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computes a number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> compute it if you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. But it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dovetailing machine to compute turing's diagonal, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You should not say anything about the diagonal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> before you have defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal" across circle- free sequences, otherwise >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> labeled as +#' in the paper, defined at the bottom of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> be computed by applying a finite set of finite string >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> be useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> be computed is
    in that "everything else".

    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that has no truth value.

    I don't think knowing the truth value of that would be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> useful. At least
    not for any important purpose.

    Knowing that all undecidability is merely semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>> incoherence enables:

    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language" >>>>>>>>>>>>>> to be reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is >>>>>>>>>>>>> merely semantic
    incoherence, and can't know because we already know that >>>>>>>>>>>>> there is
    undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr >>>>>>>>>>>>> example the
    axiom system

    -a-a reCx (1riax = x)

    1.5 != 5 re| you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as >>>>>>>>>>>> gibberish

    Middle dot is a commonly used mathematical operator. In this >>>>>>>>>>> context
    where the purpose of the operation is not specified some >>>>>>>>>>> other symbols
    are often used instead, like rey or reO, or operands are just put >>>>>>>>>>> side by
    side with no operator between.

    If commonly used mathematics is gibberish to you then we many >>>>>>>>>>> safely
    conclude that you have nothing useful to offer to the groups you >>>>>>>>>>> posted to.

    -a-a reCx (xria1 = x)
    -a-a reCxreCyreCz (xria(yriaz) = (xriay)riaz)
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = 1)
    -a-a reCxreay (yriax = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    -a-a reCxreay (xriay = yriax)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong >>>>>>>>>>>>> semantically
    incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    The truth about climate change and election fraud could >>>>>>>>>>>>>> be computed.

    Not without real world information.

    Yes, so what?

    So the biggest problem is not how to compute but how to get >>>>>>>>>>> and verify
    the relevant real world infomration.

    A set of "atomic facts" does exist. We only nee to write> them >>>>>>>>>> all down.

    THat is a lot of work that can never be completed.


    It can be completed with sufficient automation.

    No, it can't. It is not completed before it contains all material >>>>>>> that
    will be published.

    The place to start would be published textbooks.

    How long does it take to read all texbooks published in one year? >>>>>>>>
    IDK, an LLM might do this in five minutes.

    No, because in that time it cannot access all of the material. And >>>>>>> it takes time to extract atomic facts and to store them into a big >>>>>>> database.


    LLM would have to be taught how to extract facts.
    If it takes then ten times longer to extract all
    the facts of a body of text they will still be done
    with every textbook ever written after one year.

    Then peer reviewed papers.

    Now long does it take to read all reviewed papers published in >>>>>>>>> one year?

    Then published newspaper articles.

    How long does it take to read all newspaper articles publised >>>>>>>>> in one
    year?

    An LLM might read everything ever published in one year.

    During that year more is publised.


    I may be one or two days out-of-sync far far better
    than any human.

    And what to do with the "atomic facts" that conflict each other? >>>>>>>>>>>> All knowledge that can be expressed in language would
    include the exact (x,y,z) coordinates of every atom of your >>>>>>>>>>>> body relative to the exact center of the Earth every
    millisecond.
    Because this degree of detail is not physically implementable >>>>>>>>>>>> to implement my system we exclude most specific details. It >>>>>>>>>>>> is a system of general knowledge of about 200 petabytes. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    Of course you may postulate that
    the climate is immutable or that there was massimbe >>>>>>>>>>>>> undetected fraud
    in the last or some earlier election but that is not what >>>>>>>>>>>>> the word
    "knowledge" means.

    The key elements of election fraud are two things:
    (a) There was no actual evidence of election fraud
    that could have possibly changed the results.

    The key element of elction fraud is to find a vulnerability >>>>>>>>>>> in the
    election procedure.


    There has only been 1620 total documented cases in the USA >>>>>>>>>> in the last 30 years. Every investigation into fraud by
    audits found a few more votes against Trump than prior to
    the audit. Each of the 60 election fraud cases Trump lost. >>>>>>>>>> He lost because his lawyers could not tell the wild stories >>>>>>>>>> that he was telling the public without getting themselves
    convicted of perjury.

    These these fact were unconvincing seems to prove that
    his supporters are in a cult.

    But not that there were no fraud performed skillfully enough to >>>>>>>>> avoid
    detection. What was found was only small unintentional errors that >>>>>>>>> nobody tried to hide.

    Likewise there is no perfect logical proof that
    can possibly exist that five minutes ago ever existed.
    It may also be the case that all of reality is entirely
    fictional.

    That is right. But that is not relevant to our understanding of the >>>>>>> assumed processes that given the world the form it has now or that >>>>>>> we can expect it to have in the near future. Perhaps the world is >>>>>>> just God's thought but if it is it seems to be a coherent thought. >>>>>>>

    Correct, to we just encode all of this in language.

    Within the possibly false assumption that reality is
    not fictional and five minutes ago did exist then
    Trump is merely copying Hitler's big lie about election
    fraud is as certain as certain can possibly be.

    When did Hitler claim anything about an election fraud?

    Chapter 6 of Mein Kampf
    "The receptive powers of the masses are very
    restricted, and their understanding is feeble.
    On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such
    being the case, all effective propaganda must
    be confined to a few bare essentials and those
    must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped
    formulas. These slogans should be persistently
    repeated until the very last individual has come
    to grasp the idea that has been put forward."

    Provides the details of Hitler's propaganda system.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie#2020_stolen_election_claims

    Looks like a confessison that you lied.

    I did not say it as clearly as I could have said it.
    Trump did exactly copy Hitler's "big lie" propaganda
    system from Hitler's Chapter Six "War Propaganda"
    system of Hitler's Mein Kampf in Trump's lies about
    election fraud.

    You still don't say it as clearly as you should. Trump obviously applies >>> same propaganda methods as Hitler did. Why not? They worked for Hitler
    and they work for Trump, too. This explains Trups claims about an
    election fraud but is irrelevant to the question whether there was an
    election fraud and how much frauds affected the results.


    There is no evidence of election fraud

    So you say but can't prove.

    and there is
    much evidence that Trump is lying about election fraud
    using Hilter's own system of lies therefore rational
    minds would conclude that the evidence supports Trump
    is lying about election fraud though fascist methods.

    Irrelevant to the question whether there was an undetected election
    fraud. Trump obviously can't know about the fraud if it is undetected.


    It cannot by proved that with 100% complete logical
    certainty that five minutes ago ever existed or that you
    are not merely a figment of my own imagination.

    It can be proved with complete logical certainty that
    there was no actual evidence ever presented that showed
    any election fraud that could have possibly changed
    the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

    It can be proved "beyond a reasonable doubt" that Trump
    exactly copied the method of Hitler's " big lie" in his
    lies about election fraud.
    --
    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 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.
    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sun May 17 13:22:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/16/2026 2:30 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of
    'but.' If you can find an exception to this, please show me.

    Or maybe a different tarot, "the star" because you have such a
    fascination with me?


    I think you are a sock puppet for olcott.
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  • From phoenix@j63840576@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sun May 17 15:21:31 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/16/2026 2:30 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of
    'but.' If you can find an exception to this, please show me.

    Or maybe a different tarot, "the star" because you have such a
    fascination with me?


    I think you are a sock puppet for olcott.

    I know you think that, but I don't see any motivation on my part to
    disabuse you of the notion. Why not play into it and further befuddle
    you? If it were the case that I were not olcott, that is.
    --
    War in the east
    War in the west
    War up north
    War down south
    War War
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sun May 17 14:46:15 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/17/2026 2:21 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/16/2026 2:30 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of
    'but.' If you can find an exception to this, please show me.

    Or maybe a different tarot, "the star" because you have such a
    fascination with me?


    I think you are a sock puppet for olcott.

    I know you think that, but I don't see any motivation on my part to
    disabuse you of the notion. Why not play into it and further befuddle
    you? If it were the case that I were not olcott, that is.


    Ask your self what his halting decider would say... Look in the mirror?
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sun May 17 17:10:02 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 05/17/2026 02:46 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 2:21 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/16/2026 2:30 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of
    'but.' If you can find an exception to this, please show me.

    Or maybe a different tarot, "the star" because you have such a
    fascination with me?


    I think you are a sock puppet for olcott.

    I know you think that, but I don't see any motivation on my part to
    disabuse you of the notion. Why not play into it and further befuddle
    you? If it were the case that I were not olcott, that is.


    Ask your self what his halting decider would say... Look in the mirror?


    One of the problems of environments of the unmoderated and pseudonymous
    sort is that there are all kinds of trolls. There are plain rage-bait
    and flamer trolls, looky-loos and non-sequitur types, then, also all
    sorts of anti-trolls, and these and those.

    Then, for example, for something like "it's a free country", then
    when I see stuff like either
    "smell the new normal, you're living in a dictatorship",
    or,
    "suffer the children, so your social media and phone get hacked",
    then either way the idea of being aware ("woke" wasn't a word
    and I'd imagine it would be "awoke" or "woken", or, "woke" will do),
    and caring (although, you know, not _too_ caring), that trolls
    and repeti-bots on "social" media are anti-social.


    So, it's fair that people get wary of trolls, and, begin to suspect
    trolls in the likely places, and learn to make a troll-filter,
    and basically a skeptical if not cynical outlook on the world today,
    that there are trolls and trolls, and sometimes it's easiest to
    ignore them away.



    Then, there are cranks, ....

    The crank is one of the easiest sorts of identities to mimic,
    give it a howler fallacy it won't let go and the plain obstinance
    combined with the stubbornness along with the sort of plain
    unwarranted persistence, then it's not always easy to tell the
    difference between cranks and trolls, though often it is,
    and between persons and bots, though often it is.



    'Murica.




    Then, about the thread, the idea is that it's great if these
    long-running mostly-empty tit-for-tat nonsense threads get
    hijacked by passers-by then into discussions about the issues
    at hand, like about the many, many things to do with the
    "mathematics" of continuity and infinity, since, despite
    the idea of some retro-finitists that their world is a
    dot, and not even like AP a giant plutonium atom, there's
    much to be done to bring real infinite and continuity into
    mathematics, then for physics and so on.


    So, new blood (or fresh meat) writing on the thread so
    it's not just an echo-chamber of trolls and anti-trolls
    which is one big troll, is not necessarily a bad thing.



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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sun May 17 17:24:12 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 05/17/2026 05:10 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/17/2026 02:46 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 2:21 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/16/2026 2:30 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of
    'but.' If you can find an exception to this, please show me.

    Or maybe a different tarot, "the star" because you have such a
    fascination with me?


    I think you are a sock puppet for olcott.

    I know you think that, but I don't see any motivation on my part to
    disabuse you of the notion. Why not play into it and further befuddle
    you? If it were the case that I were not olcott, that is.


    Ask your self what his halting decider would say... Look in the mirror?


    One of the problems of environments of the unmoderated and pseudonymous
    sort is that there are all kinds of trolls. There are plain rage-bait
    and flamer trolls, looky-loos and non-sequitur types, then, also all
    sorts of anti-trolls, and these and those.

    Then, for example, for something like "it's a free country", then
    when I see stuff like either
    "smell the new normal, you're living in a dictatorship",
    or,
    "suffer the children, so your social media and phone get hacked",
    then either way the idea of being aware ("woke" wasn't a word
    and I'd imagine it would be "awoke" or "woken", or, "woke" will do),
    and caring (although, you know, not _too_ caring), that trolls
    and repeti-bots on "social" media are anti-social.


    So, it's fair that people get wary of trolls, and, begin to suspect
    trolls in the likely places, and learn to make a troll-filter,
    and basically a skeptical if not cynical outlook on the world today,
    that there are trolls and trolls, and sometimes it's easiest to
    ignore them away.



    Then, there are cranks, ....

    The crank is one of the easiest sorts of identities to mimic,
    give it a howler fallacy it won't let go and the plain obstinance
    combined with the stubbornness along with the sort of plain
    unwarranted persistence, then it's not always easy to tell the
    difference between cranks and trolls, though often it is,
    and between persons and bots, though often it is.



    'Murica.




    Then, about the thread, the idea is that it's great if these
    long-running mostly-empty tit-for-tat nonsense threads get
    hijacked by passers-by then into discussions about the issues
    at hand, like about the many, many things to do with the
    "mathematics" of continuity and infinity, since, despite
    the idea of some retro-finitists that their world is a
    dot, and not even like AP a giant plutonium atom, there's
    much to be done to bring real infinite and continuity into
    mathematics, then for physics and so on.


    So, new blood (or fresh meat) writing on the thread so
    it's not just an echo-chamber of trolls and anti-trolls
    which is one big troll, is not necessarily a bad thing.




    I enjoy CMT's usual spontaneous cheerful enthusiasm,
    though as a perceived bot itself when it once-a-year
    cites its prompter, then though the affected anxiety
    pronation reminds me of too many lessons learned like
    not to smell fear or flinch or beg or impose or presume
    or assume or judge or telepathically scan or lurk or
    menace or make gossip or berate or scoff.

    About cranks then, there's something about a crank I admire,
    not so much the being wrong part yet the dream, having the
    dreams, I'm all for people having the dream when it's not
    frustrating or threatening other people's dreams.

    So, as I usually enough put it, "retro-finitist crankety
    trolls can step off and get bent".


    I'm not a fan of any "new" normal, we already have plain
    old "normal normal".



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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sun May 17 20:46:00 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/17/2026 5:24 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/17/2026 05:10 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/17/2026 02:46 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 2:21 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/16/2026 2:30 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of >>>>>>>> 'but.' If you can find an exception to this, please show me.

    Or maybe a different tarot, "the star" because you have such a
    fascination with me?


    I think you are a sock puppet for olcott.

    I know you think that, but I don't see any motivation on my part to
    disabuse you of the notion. Why not play into it and further befuddle
    you? If it were the case that I were not olcott, that is.


    Ask your self what his halting decider would say... Look in the mirror?


    One of the problems of environments of the unmoderated and pseudonymous
    sort is that there are all kinds of trolls. There are plain rage-bait
    and flamer trolls, looky-loos and non-sequitur types, then, also all
    sorts of anti-trolls, and these and those.

    Then, for example, for something like "it's a free country", then
    when I see stuff like either
    "smell the new normal, you're living in a dictatorship",
    or,
    "suffer the children, so your social media and phone get hacked",
    then either way the idea of being aware ("woke" wasn't a word
    and I'd imagine it would be "awoke" or "woken", or, "woke" will do),
    and caring (although, you know, not _too_ caring), that trolls
    and repeti-bots on "social" media are anti-social.


    So, it's fair that people get wary of trolls, and, begin to suspect
    trolls in the likely places, and learn to make a troll-filter,
    and basically a skeptical if not cynical outlook on the world today,
    that there are trolls and trolls, and sometimes it's easiest to
    ignore them away.



    Then, there are cranks, ....

    The crank is one of the easiest sorts of identities to mimic,
    give it a howler fallacy it won't let go and the plain obstinance
    combined with the stubbornness along with the sort of plain
    unwarranted persistence, then it's not always easy to tell the
    difference between cranks and trolls, though often it is,
    and between persons and bots, though often it is.



    'Murica.




    Then, about the thread, the idea is that it's great if these
    long-running mostly-empty tit-for-tat nonsense threads get
    hijacked by passers-by then into discussions about the issues
    at hand, like about the many, many things to do with the
    "mathematics" of continuity and infinity, since, despite
    the idea of some retro-finitists that their world is a
    dot, and not even like AP a giant plutonium atom, there's
    much to be done to bring real infinite and continuity into
    mathematics, then for physics and so on.


    So, new blood (or fresh meat) writing on the thread so
    it's not just an echo-chamber of trolls and anti-trolls
    which is one big troll, is not necessarily a bad thing.




    I enjoy CMT's usual spontaneous cheerful enthusiasm,
    though as a perceived bot itself when it once-a-year
    cites its prompter, then though the affected anxiety
    pronation reminds me of too many lessons learned like
    not to smell fear or flinch or beg or impose or presume
    or assume or judge or telepathically scan or lurk or
    menace or make gossip or berate or scoff.

    Fwiw, check out these funny halt deciders... They only halt when all
    possible paths are hit. If you think about its kind of akin to olcotts
    DD. i simply hijack its result. Here is a version that uses random
    numbers for the fuzzer:

    In applesoft basic for fun. ;^D

    You can run these here:

    https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic/
    _____________________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 REM INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10


    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    _____________________________



    Here is one that requires input from a user:
    _____________________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 REM PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10
    _____________________________


    It only halts when all paths have been hit.



    About cranks then, there's something about a crank I admire,
    not so much the being wrong part yet the dream, having the
    dreams, I'm all for people having the dream when it's not
    frustrating or threatening other people's dreams.

    So, as I usually enough put it, "retro-finitist crankety
    trolls can step off and get bent".


    I'm not a fan of any "new" normal, we already have plain
    old "normal normal".




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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Sun May 17 20:48:41 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/17/2026 8:46 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 5:24 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/17/2026 05:10 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/17/2026 02:46 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 2:21 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/16/2026 2:30 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of >>>>>>>>> 'but.' If you can find an exception to this, please show me. >>>>>>>>>
    Or maybe a different tarot, "the star" because you have such a
    fascination with me?


    I think you are a sock puppet for olcott.

    I know you think that, but I don't see any motivation on my part to
    disabuse you of the notion. Why not play into it and further befuddle >>>>> you? If it were the case that I were not olcott, that is.


    Ask your self what his halting decider would say... Look in the mirror? >>>

    One of the problems of environments of the unmoderated and pseudonymous
    sort is that there are all kinds of trolls. There are plain rage-bait
    and flamer trolls, looky-loos and non-sequitur types, then, also all
    sorts of anti-trolls, and these and those.

    Then, for example, for something like "it's a free country", then
    when I see stuff like either
    "smell the new normal, you're living in a dictatorship",
    or,
    "suffer the children, so your social media and phone get hacked",
    then either way the idea of being aware ("woke" wasn't a word
    and I'd imagine it would be "awoke" or "woken", or, "woke" will do),
    and caring (although, you know, not _too_ caring), that trolls
    and repeti-bots on "social" media are anti-social.


    So, it's fair that people get wary of trolls, and, begin to suspect
    trolls in the likely places, and learn to make a troll-filter,
    and basically a skeptical if not cynical outlook on the world today,
    that there are trolls and trolls, and sometimes it's easiest to
    ignore them away.



    Then, there are cranks, ....

    The crank is one of the easiest sorts of identities to mimic,
    give it a howler fallacy it won't let go and the plain obstinance
    combined with the stubbornness along with the sort of plain
    unwarranted persistence, then it's not always easy to tell the
    difference between cranks and trolls, though often it is,
    and between persons and bots, though often it is.



    'Murica.




    Then, about the thread, the idea is that it's great if these
    long-running mostly-empty tit-for-tat nonsense threads get
    hijacked by passers-by then into discussions about the issues
    at hand, like about the many, many things to do with the
    "mathematics" of continuity and infinity, since, despite
    the idea of some retro-finitists that their world is a
    dot, and not even like AP a giant plutonium atom, there's
    much to be done to bring real infinite and continuity into
    mathematics, then for physics and so on.


    So, new blood (or fresh meat) writing on the thread so
    it's not just an echo-chamber of trolls and anti-trolls
    which is one big troll, is not necessarily a bad thing.




    I enjoy CMT's usual spontaneous cheerful enthusiasm,
    though as a perceived bot itself when it once-a-year
    cites its prompter, then though the affected anxiety
    pronation reminds me of too many lessons learned like
    not to smell fear or flinch or beg or impose or presume
    or assume or judge or telepathically scan or lurk or
    menace or make gossip or berate or scoff.

    Fwiw, check out these funny halt deciders... They only halt when all possible paths are hit. If you think about its kind of akin to olcotts
    DD. i simply hijack its result. Here is a version that uses random
    numbers for the fuzzer:

    In applesoft basic for fun. ;^D

    You can run these here:

    https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic/
    _____________________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 REM INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10


    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    _____________________________



    Here is one that requires input from a user:
    _____________________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 REM PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10


    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
    _____________________________



    God damn it forgot to add in line 1000 onward! Shit happens:

    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1

    Corrected user input one:


    _______________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 REM PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10

    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    _______________


    Sorry about that shit!









    It only halts when all paths have been hit.



    About cranks then, there's something about a crank I admire,
    not so much the being wrong part yet the dream, having the
    dreams, I'm all for people having the dream when it's not
    frustrating or threatening other people's dreams.

    So, as I usually enough put it, "retro-finitist crankety
    trolls can step off and get bent".


    I'm not a fan of any "new" normal, we already have plain
    old "normal normal".





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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Mon May 18 10:51:47 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 17/05/2026 23:22, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/16/2026 2:30 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of
    'but.' If you can find an exception to this, please show me.

    Or maybe a different tarot, "the star" because you have such a
    fascination with me?


    I think you are a sock puppet for olcott.

    Unlikely. Phoenix writes like someone who can think.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Mon May 18 08:14:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 05/17/2026 08:48 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 8:46 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 5:24 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/17/2026 05:10 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/17/2026 02:46 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 2:21 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/16/2026 2:30 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of >>>>>>>>>> 'but.' If you can find an exception to this, please show me. >>>>>>>>>>
    Or maybe a different tarot, "the star" because you have such a >>>>>>>> fascination with me?


    I think you are a sock puppet for olcott.

    I know you think that, but I don't see any motivation on my part to >>>>>> disabuse you of the notion. Why not play into it and further befuddle >>>>>> you? If it were the case that I were not olcott, that is.


    Ask your self what his halting decider would say... Look in the
    mirror?


    One of the problems of environments of the unmoderated and pseudonymous >>>> sort is that there are all kinds of trolls. There are plain rage-bait
    and flamer trolls, looky-loos and non-sequitur types, then, also all
    sorts of anti-trolls, and these and those.

    Then, for example, for something like "it's a free country", then
    when I see stuff like either
    "smell the new normal, you're living in a dictatorship",
    or,
    "suffer the children, so your social media and phone get hacked",
    then either way the idea of being aware ("woke" wasn't a word
    and I'd imagine it would be "awoke" or "woken", or, "woke" will do),
    and caring (although, you know, not _too_ caring), that trolls
    and repeti-bots on "social" media are anti-social.


    So, it's fair that people get wary of trolls, and, begin to suspect
    trolls in the likely places, and learn to make a troll-filter,
    and basically a skeptical if not cynical outlook on the world today,
    that there are trolls and trolls, and sometimes it's easiest to
    ignore them away.



    Then, there are cranks, ....

    The crank is one of the easiest sorts of identities to mimic,
    give it a howler fallacy it won't let go and the plain obstinance
    combined with the stubbornness along with the sort of plain
    unwarranted persistence, then it's not always easy to tell the
    difference between cranks and trolls, though often it is,
    and between persons and bots, though often it is.



    'Murica.




    Then, about the thread, the idea is that it's great if these
    long-running mostly-empty tit-for-tat nonsense threads get
    hijacked by passers-by then into discussions about the issues
    at hand, like about the many, many things to do with the
    "mathematics" of continuity and infinity, since, despite
    the idea of some retro-finitists that their world is a
    dot, and not even like AP a giant plutonium atom, there's
    much to be done to bring real infinite and continuity into
    mathematics, then for physics and so on.


    So, new blood (or fresh meat) writing on the thread so
    it's not just an echo-chamber of trolls and anti-trolls
    which is one big troll, is not necessarily a bad thing.




    I enjoy CMT's usual spontaneous cheerful enthusiasm,
    though as a perceived bot itself when it once-a-year
    cites its prompter, then though the affected anxiety
    pronation reminds me of too many lessons learned like
    not to smell fear or flinch or beg or impose or presume
    or assume or judge or telepathically scan or lurk or
    menace or make gossip or berate or scoff.

    Fwiw, check out these funny halt deciders... They only halt when all
    possible paths are hit. If you think about its kind of akin to olcotts
    DD. i simply hijack its result. Here is a version that uses random
    numbers for the fuzzer:

    In applesoft basic for fun. ;^D

    You can run these here:

    https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic/
    _____________________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 REM INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10


    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    _____________________________



    Here is one that requires input from a user:
    _____________________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 REM PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10


    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
    _____________________________



    God damn it forgot to add in line 1000 onward! Shit happens:

    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1

    Corrected user input one:


    _______________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 REM PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10

    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    _______________


    Sorry about that shit!









    It only halts when all paths have been hit.



    About cranks then, there's something about a crank I admire,
    not so much the being wrong part yet the dream, having the
    dreams, I'm all for people having the dream when it's not
    frustrating or threatening other people's dreams.

    So, as I usually enough put it, "retro-finitist crankety
    trolls can step off and get bent".


    I'm not a fan of any "new" normal, we already have plain
    old "normal normal".






    Hm.

    There are at least three accounts of programs whether they halt.

    A) almost-all programs halt
    B) almost-all programs don't halt
    C) half of programs halt

    Then, a usual account "there doesn't exist a halt decider"
    has the usual opposite account "any program has another
    program in static analysis that determines whether it halts".

    The entire notion of "static analysis" finds whether programs
    halt on given inputs, or for example, enter loops, those being
    eliminable also and loopingly-halts.


    Then, Gregory Chaitin's account of P(Halts) or "Omega" is
    about 0.85+. Well, what's special about that. It's basically
    as from counting arguments and probability theory the usual
    idea that that's 1+ standard deviation away from 50/50.


    Anyways, here there are:

    A) three models of continuous domains (line-reals, field-reals,
    signal-reals)
    B) three models of Cantor space (square, sparse, signal)
    C) three models of natural infinities (fragments, extensions, standard)
    D) three probabilistic limit theorems (uniformizing, central, polar)

    So, these are the sorts of things that get involved
    that a conscientious mathematician needs to know
    else they are retro-finitist crankety-trolls.

    When talking about "infinity" and "continuity",
    or "totals" and "completions".



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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Mon May 18 11:03:59 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/18/2026 10:14 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/17/2026 08:48 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 8:46 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 5:24 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/17/2026 05:10 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/17/2026 02:46 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 2:21 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/16/2026 2:30 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so: >>>>>>>>>>>> that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of >>>>>>>>>>> 'but.' If you can find an exception to this, please show me. >>>>>>>>>>>
    Or maybe a different tarot, "the star" because you have such a >>>>>>>>> fascination with me?


    I think you are a sock puppet for olcott.

    I know you think that, but I don't see any motivation on my part to >>>>>>> disabuse you of the notion. Why not play into it and further
    befuddle
    you? If it were the case that I were not olcott, that is.


    Ask your self what his halting decider would say... Look in the
    mirror?


    One of the problems of environments of the unmoderated and
    pseudonymous
    sort is that there are all kinds of trolls. There are plain rage-bait >>>>> and flamer trolls, looky-loos and non-sequitur types, then, also all >>>>> sorts of anti-trolls, and these and those.

    Then, for example, for something like "it's a free country", then
    when I see stuff like either
    "smell the new normal, you're living in a dictatorship",
    or,
    "suffer the children, so your social media and phone get hacked",
    then either way the idea of being aware ("woke" wasn't a word
    and I'd imagine it would be "awoke" or "woken", or, "woke" will do), >>>>> and caring (although, you know, not _too_ caring), that trolls
    and repeti-bots on "social" media are anti-social.


    So, it's fair that people get wary of trolls, and, begin to suspect
    trolls in the likely places, and learn to make a troll-filter,
    and basically a skeptical if not cynical outlook on the world today, >>>>> that there are trolls and trolls, and sometimes it's easiest to
    ignore them away.



    Then, there are cranks, ....

    The crank is one of the easiest sorts of identities to mimic,
    give it a howler fallacy it won't let go and the plain obstinance
    combined with the stubbornness along with the sort of plain
    unwarranted persistence, then it's not always easy to tell the
    difference between cranks and trolls, though often it is,
    and between persons and bots, though often it is.



    'Murica.




    Then, about the thread, the idea is that it's great if these
    long-running mostly-empty tit-for-tat nonsense threads get
    hijacked by passers-by then into discussions about the issues
    at hand, like about the many, many things to do with the
    "mathematics" of continuity and infinity, since, despite
    the idea of some retro-finitists that their world is a
    dot, and not even like AP a giant plutonium atom, there's
    much to be done to bring real infinite and continuity into
    mathematics, then for physics and so on.


    So, new blood (or fresh meat) writing on the thread so
    it's not just an echo-chamber of trolls and anti-trolls
    which is one big troll, is not necessarily a bad thing.




    I enjoy CMT's usual spontaneous cheerful enthusiasm,
    though as a perceived bot itself when it once-a-year
    cites its prompter, then though the affected anxiety
    pronation reminds me of too many lessons learned like
    not to smell fear or flinch or beg or impose or presume
    or assume or judge or telepathically scan or lurk or
    menace or make gossip or berate or scoff.

    Fwiw, check out these funny halt deciders... They only halt when all
    possible paths are hit. If you think about its kind of akin to olcotts
    DD. i simply hijack its result. Here is a version that uses random
    numbers for the fuzzer:

    In applesoft basic for fun. ;^D

    You can run these here:

    https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic/
    _____________________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 REM INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10


    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    _____________________________



    Here is one that requires input from a user:
    _____________________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 REM PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10


    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
    _____________________________



    God damn it forgot to add in line 1000 onward! Shit happens:

    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1

    Corrected user input one:


    _______________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 REM PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10

    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    _______________


    Sorry about that shit!









    It only halts when all paths have been hit.



    About cranks then, there's something about a crank I admire,
    not so much the being wrong part yet the dream, having the
    dreams, I'm all for people having the dream when it's not
    frustrating or threatening other people's dreams.

    So, as I usually enough put it, "retro-finitist crankety
    trolls can step off and get bent".


    I'm not a fan of any "new" normal, we already have plain
    old "normal normal".






    Hm.

    There are at least three accounts of programs whether they halt.

    A) almost-all programs halt
    B) almost-all programs don't halt
    C) half of programs halt

    How can a man as smart as you get this so incorrectly?
    The number of programs that halt is between 0 and 100%
    excluding the endpoints.
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Mon May 18 09:44:58 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 05/18/2026 09:03 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/18/2026 10:14 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/17/2026 08:48 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 8:46 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 5:24 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/17/2026 05:10 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/17/2026 02:46 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 2:21 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/16/2026 2:30 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so: >>>>>>>>>>>>> that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of >>>>>>>>>>>> 'but.' If you can find an exception to this, please show me. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    Or maybe a different tarot, "the star" because you have such a >>>>>>>>>> fascination with me?


    I think you are a sock puppet for olcott.

    I know you think that, but I don't see any motivation on my part to >>>>>>>> disabuse you of the notion. Why not play into it and further
    befuddle
    you? If it were the case that I were not olcott, that is.


    Ask your self what his halting decider would say... Look in the
    mirror?


    One of the problems of environments of the unmoderated and
    pseudonymous
    sort is that there are all kinds of trolls. There are plain rage-bait >>>>>> and flamer trolls, looky-loos and non-sequitur types, then, also all >>>>>> sorts of anti-trolls, and these and those.

    Then, for example, for something like "it's a free country", then
    when I see stuff like either
    "smell the new normal, you're living in a dictatorship",
    or,
    "suffer the children, so your social media and phone get hacked",
    then either way the idea of being aware ("woke" wasn't a word
    and I'd imagine it would be "awoke" or "woken", or, "woke" will do), >>>>>> and caring (although, you know, not _too_ caring), that trolls
    and repeti-bots on "social" media are anti-social.


    So, it's fair that people get wary of trolls, and, begin to suspect >>>>>> trolls in the likely places, and learn to make a troll-filter,
    and basically a skeptical if not cynical outlook on the world today, >>>>>> that there are trolls and trolls, and sometimes it's easiest to
    ignore them away.



    Then, there are cranks, ....

    The crank is one of the easiest sorts of identities to mimic,
    give it a howler fallacy it won't let go and the plain obstinance
    combined with the stubbornness along with the sort of plain
    unwarranted persistence, then it's not always easy to tell the
    difference between cranks and trolls, though often it is,
    and between persons and bots, though often it is.



    'Murica.




    Then, about the thread, the idea is that it's great if these
    long-running mostly-empty tit-for-tat nonsense threads get
    hijacked by passers-by then into discussions about the issues
    at hand, like about the many, many things to do with the
    "mathematics" of continuity and infinity, since, despite
    the idea of some retro-finitists that their world is a
    dot, and not even like AP a giant plutonium atom, there's
    much to be done to bring real infinite and continuity into
    mathematics, then for physics and so on.


    So, new blood (or fresh meat) writing on the thread so
    it's not just an echo-chamber of trolls and anti-trolls
    which is one big troll, is not necessarily a bad thing.




    I enjoy CMT's usual spontaneous cheerful enthusiasm,
    though as a perceived bot itself when it once-a-year
    cites its prompter, then though the affected anxiety
    pronation reminds me of too many lessons learned like
    not to smell fear or flinch or beg or impose or presume
    or assume or judge or telepathically scan or lurk or
    menace or make gossip or berate or scoff.

    Fwiw, check out these funny halt deciders... They only halt when all
    possible paths are hit. If you think about its kind of akin to olcotts >>>> DD. i simply hijack its result. Here is a version that uses random
    numbers for the fuzzer:

    In applesoft basic for fun. ;^D

    You can run these here:

    https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic/
    _____________________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 REM INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10


    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    _____________________________



    Here is one that requires input from a user:
    _____________________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 REM PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10


    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
    _____________________________



    God damn it forgot to add in line 1000 onward! Shit happens:

    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1

    Corrected user input one:


    _______________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 REM PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10

    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    _______________


    Sorry about that shit!









    It only halts when all paths have been hit.



    About cranks then, there's something about a crank I admire,
    not so much the being wrong part yet the dream, having the
    dreams, I'm all for people having the dream when it's not
    frustrating or threatening other people's dreams.

    So, as I usually enough put it, "retro-finitist crankety
    trolls can step off and get bent".


    I'm not a fan of any "new" normal, we already have plain
    old "normal normal".






    Hm.

    There are at least three accounts of programs whether they halt.

    A) almost-all programs halt
    B) almost-all programs don't halt
    C) half of programs halt

    How can a man as smart as you get this so incorrectly?
    The number of programs that halt is between 0 and 100%
    excluding the endpoints.


    https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611740

    "The Halting Probability Omega: Irreducible Complexity in Pure
    Mathematics", G. Chaitin


    "G||del himself did not think that his theorem showed that mathematics
    has limitations. In several essays he made it clear that he believed
    that mathematicians could eventually settle any significant question by
    using their mathematical intuition, their ability to directly perceive
    the Platonic world of mathematical ideas, and by inventing or
    discovering new concepts and new axioms, new principles.

    Furthermore, I share EnriquesrCOs faith in intuition. I think that
    excessive formalism and abstraction is killing mathematics. In my
    opinion math papers shouldnrCOt attempt to replace all words by formulas, instead they should be like literary essays, they should attempt to
    explain and convince.

    So let me tell you the story of metamathematics, of how mathematicians
    have tried to use mathematical methods to study the power and the
    limitations of math itself. ItrCOs a fairly dramatic story; in a previous
    era it might have been the subject of epic poems, of Iliads and Odysseys
    of verse. IrCOll start with David Hilbert."


    "In my opinion this is a fundamental step forward in the philosophy of mathematics because it makes incompleteness seem much more concrete and
    much more natural. ItrCOs almost a problem in physics, itrCOs about a
    machine, you just ask whether or not itrCOs going to eventually stop, and
    it turns out thererCOs no way, no general way, to answer that question.
    Let me emphasize that if a program does halt, we can eventually discover
    that. The problem, an extremely deep one, is to show that a program will
    never halt if this is in fact so. One can settle many special cases,
    even an infinity of them, but no finite set of axioms can enable you to
    settle all possible cases."







    Hm, " ... no finite set of axioms ...", ..., how about "no axioms".


    "The real numbers are the simplest thing in the world geometrically,
    they are just points on a line. But arithmetically, as individuals, real numbers are actually rather unreal. TuringrCOs 1936 uncomputable real is
    just the tip of the iceberg, the problem is a lot more serious than that."


    Here the iota-values are points _in_ a line, field-reals _on_ a line,
    and signal-reals _about_ and _around_ a line.

    So, Chaitin doesn't even have three models of continuous domains,
    or "repleteness", of concepts like Lebnitz' principle of perfection
    and Hilbert's postulate of continuity.


    Mathematics really _does_ define continuity:
    and there are at least three models of continuous domains.



    So, say you want to sample a real number from [0,1] the interval
    at uniform random, and all you have is a fair coin that
    gives samples from {0, 1} the set.

    So, you start flipping coins and marking the result to make
    a sequence of 0's and 1's. Each coin toss _refines_ the
    sample.

    Yet, each coin toss also _begins_ a new sample. So, to sample
    one real number, the super-task results sampling infinitely-many
    real numbers.


    So, the probability of the first sample being a rational value
    is, according to the law of large numbers the law of small numbers,
    small, and arbitrarily and infinitesimally small. In theories
    that are Pythagorean it's almost-all rationals, while in theories
    that are Cantorian it's almost-all transcendentals.

    Yet, if a sample arrives at a rational, the repeating character
    of rationals means that thusly the _one_ sample of a rational
    number is automatically _infinitely-many_ samples of rational
    numbers.

    So, it makes sense to consider that the probability of sampling
    a rational number from [0,1] is about 0.5.


    This isn't Pythagorean by itself, and isn't Cantorian by itself.
    It's them together according to accounts of paradox-free reason,
    not "non-classical logics where we ignore contradiction",
    which is _hypocrisy_ and furthermore _fallacious_,
    since "infinity" and "continuity" are "absolute" and "replete".








    "LetrCOs start with BorelrCOs know-it-all number, but now letrCOs use the Nth binary digit to tell us whether or not the Nth computer program ever
    halts. So now BorelrCOs number is an oracle for the halting problem. For example, there is a bit which tells us whether or not the Riemann
    hypothesis is true, for that is equivalent to the statement that a
    program that systematically searches for zeros of the zeta function that
    are in the wrong place, never halts.

    It turns out that this number, which IrCOll call TuringrCOs number even
    though it does not occur in TuringrCOs paper, is wasting bits, it is
    actually highly redundant. We donrCOt really need N bits to answer N cases
    of the halting problem, a much smaller number of bits will do. Why?

    Well, consider some large number N of cases of the halting problem, some
    large number N of individual programs for which we want to know whether
    or not each one halts. Is this really N bits of mathematical
    information? No, the answers are not independent, they are highly
    correlated. How? Well, in order to answer N cases of the halting
    problem, we donrCOt really need to know each individual answer; it
    suffices to know how many of these N programs will eventually halt. Once
    we know this number, which is only about log_2 N
    bits of information, we can run the N programs in parallel until exactly
    this number of them halt, and then we know that none of the remaining
    programs will ever halt. And log_2 N is much, much less than N for all sufficiently large N. In other words, TuringrCOs number isnrCOt the best possible oracle for the halting problem. It is highly redundant, it uses
    far too many bits.

    Using essentially this idea, we can get the best possible oracle number
    for the halting problem; that is the halting probability +-, which has no redundancy, none at all.







    So, now that there's readily equipped a notion of uniform sampling
    that results "oracle numbers", always _infinitely-many_ just to get one,
    then Chaitin's quote is equipped some context that makes
    quite a fresh reading.



    This goes for all y'all.



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  • From phoenix@j63840576@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Mon May 18 11:52:42 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    olcott wrote:
    On 5/18/2026 10:14 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/17/2026 08:48 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 8:46 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 5:24 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/17/2026 05:10 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/17/2026 02:46 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/17/2026 2:21 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/16/2026 2:30 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so: >>>>>>>>>>>>> that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of >>>>>>>>>>>> 'but.' If you can find an exception to this, please show me. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    Or maybe a different tarot, "the star" because you have such a >>>>>>>>>> fascination with me?


    I think you are a sock puppet for olcott.

    I know you think that, but I don't see any motivation on my part to >>>>>>>> disabuse you of the notion. Why not play into it and further
    befuddle
    you? If it were the case that I were not olcott, that is.


    Ask your self what his halting decider would say... Look in the
    mirror?


    One of the problems of environments of the unmoderated and
    pseudonymous
    sort is that there are all kinds of trolls. There are plain rage-bait >>>>>> and flamer trolls, looky-loos and non-sequitur types, then, also all >>>>>> sorts of anti-trolls, and these and those.

    Then, for example, for something like "it's a free country", then
    when I see stuff like either
    "smell the new normal, you're living in a dictatorship",
    or,
    "suffer the children, so your social media and phone get hacked",
    then either way the idea of being aware ("woke" wasn't a word
    and I'd imagine it would be "awoke" or "woken", or, "woke" will do), >>>>>> and caring (although, you know, not _too_ caring), that trolls
    and repeti-bots on "social" media are anti-social.


    So, it's fair that people get wary of trolls, and, begin to suspect >>>>>> trolls in the likely places, and learn to make a troll-filter,
    and basically a skeptical if not cynical outlook on the world today, >>>>>> that there are trolls and trolls, and sometimes it's easiest to
    ignore them away.



    Then, there are cranks, ....

    The crank is one of the easiest sorts of identities to mimic,
    give it a howler fallacy it won't let go and the plain obstinance
    combined with the stubbornness along with the sort of plain
    unwarranted persistence, then it's not always easy to tell the
    difference between cranks and trolls, though often it is,
    and between persons and bots, though often it is.



    'Murica.




    Then, about the thread, the idea is that it's great if these
    long-running mostly-empty tit-for-tat nonsense threads get
    hijacked by passers-by then into discussions about the issues
    at hand, like about the many, many things to do with the
    "mathematics" of continuity and infinity, since, despite
    the idea of some retro-finitists that their world is a
    dot, and not even like AP a giant plutonium atom, there's
    much to be done to bring real infinite and continuity into
    mathematics, then for physics and so on.


    So, new blood (or fresh meat) writing on the thread so
    it's not just an echo-chamber of trolls and anti-trolls
    which is one big troll, is not necessarily a bad thing.




    I enjoy CMT's usual spontaneous cheerful enthusiasm,
    though as a perceived bot itself when it once-a-year
    cites its prompter, then though the affected anxiety
    pronation reminds me of too many lessons learned like
    not to smell fear or flinch or beg or impose or presume
    or assume or judge or telepathically scan or lurk or
    menace or make gossip or berate or scoff.

    Fwiw, check out these funny halt deciders... They only halt when all
    possible paths are hit. If you think about its kind of akin to olcotts >>>> DD. i simply hijack its result. Here is a version that uses random
    numbers for the fuzzer:

    In applesoft basic for fun. ;^D

    You can run these here:

    https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic/
    _____________________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 REM INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10


    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    _____________________________



    Here is one that requires input from a user:
    _____________________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 REM PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10


    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
    _____________________________



    God damn it forgot to add in line 1000 onward! Shit happens:

    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1

    Corrected user input one:


    _______________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 REM PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10

    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    _______________


    Sorry about that shit!









    It only halts when all paths have been hit.



    About cranks then, there's something about a crank I admire,
    not so much the being wrong part yet the dream, having the
    dreams, I'm all for people having the dream when it's not
    frustrating or threatening other people's dreams.

    So, as I usually enough put it, "retro-finitist crankety
    trolls can step off and get bent".


    I'm not a fan of any "new" normal, we already have plain
    old "normal normal".






    Hm.

    There are at least three accounts of programs whether they halt.

    A) almost-all programs halt
    B) almost-all programs don't halt
    C) half of programs halt

    How can a man as smart as you get this so incorrectly?
    The number of programs that halt is between 0 and 100%
    excluding the endpoints.

    Excluding the endpoints is just childish. These are achievable in
    certain societies. Luddite: 0 and Advanced Technology Civilization: 100.
    --
    War in the east
    War in the west
    War up north
    War down south
    War War
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.messianic on Mon May 18 16:37:41 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    On 5/18/2026 12:51 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 17/05/2026 23:22, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 5/16/2026 2:30 PM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Yet that yet that yet that yet that yet that it is so:
    that that that that that it is so.


    I find that 'except' paired with 'yet' covers every instance of
    'but.' If you can find an exception to this, please show me.

    Or maybe a different tarot, "the star" because you have such a
    fascination with me?


    I think you are a sock puppet for olcott.

    Unlikely. Phoenix writes like someone who can think.


    I hope I am wrong!
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