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Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic

From Richard Damon <news.x.richarddamon@xoxy.net>
Newsgroups sci.math, sci.logic, comp.theory
Subject Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic
Date 2026-01-22 21:51 -0500
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On 1/22/26 7:33 PM, olcott wrote:
> On 1/22/2026 6:17 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>> On 1/22/26 12:18 AM, olcott wrote:
>>> On 1/21/2026 10:59 PM, Python wrote:
>>>> Le 22/01/2026 à 04:54, olcott a écrit :
>>>>> On 1/21/2026 9:37 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/21/26 10:45 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>> On 1/21/2026 6:35 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 1/20/26 11:54 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 1/20/2026 10:04 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 1/20/26 4:23 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 1/19/2026 11:29 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> My system is not supposed to decide in advance whether
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Goldbach is well‑founded. A formula becomes a truth‑bearer
>>>>>>>>>>>>> only when PA can classify it in finitely many steps.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Goldbach may or may not be classifiable; that’s an open
>>>>>>>>>>>>> computational fact, not a semantic requirement. This has
>>>>>>>>>>>>> no effect on Gödel, because Gödel’s sentence is structurally
>>>>>>>>>>>>> non‑truth‑bearing, not merely unclassified.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Which shows that you don't understand what logic systems are.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> The don't "Decide" on truths, they DETERMINE what is true.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Your problem is that either there is, or there isn't a 
>>>>>>>>>>>> finite length proof of the statement.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Semantics can't change in a formal system, or they aren't 
>>>>>>>>>>>> really semantics.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Your problem is you don't understand Godel statement, as it 
>>>>>>>>>>>> *IS* truth bearing as it is a simple statement with no 
>>>>>>>>>>>> middle ground, does a number exist that satisfies a given 
>>>>>>>>>>>> relationship. Either there is, or there isn't. No other 
>>>>>>>>>>>> possiblity.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> You confuse yourself by forgetting that words have actual 
>>>>>>>>>>>> meaning, and that meaning can depend on using the right 
>>>>>>>>>>>> context.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Godel's G is a statement in the system PA.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> It is a statement about the non-existance of a natural 
>>>>>>>>>>>> number that satisfies a particular computable realtionship.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> It is a statement defined purely by mathematics and thus 
>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't "depend" on other meaning.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> It is a mathematical FACT, that for this relationship, no 
>>>>>>>>>>>> matter what natural number we test, none will satisfy it, so 
>>>>>>>>>>>> its assertation that no number satisfies it makes it true.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> PA augmented with its own True(PA,x) and False(PA,x)
>>>>>>>>>>> is a decider for Domain of every expression grounded
>>>>>>>>>>> in the axioms of PA.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> No, it becomes inconsistant.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> A system at a higher level of inference than PA can
>>>>>>>>>>> reject any expressions that define a cycle in the
>>>>>>>>>>> directed graph of the evaluation sequence of PA
>>>>>>>>>>> expressions. Then PA could test back chained inference
>>>>>>>>>>> from expression x and ~x to the axioms of PA.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> But there is no "cycle" in the statement of G. It is PURELY a 
>>>>>>>>>> statement of the non-existance of a number that satisfies a 
>>>>>>>>>> purely mathematic relationship (which has no meaning by itself 
>>>>>>>>>> in PA).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Even the relationship cannot exist <in> PA.
>>>>>>>>> Instead it is about PA in outside model theory
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> No, it doesn't mention PA, it is about the numbers that are IN PA.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Your problem is you forget to actually know what Godel's G is, a 
>>>>>>>> you only read the Reader's Digest version of the proof, as that 
>>>>>>>> is all you can understand.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That, or you are saying that mathematics itself isn't in PA, and 
>>>>>>>> that you proof-theoretic stuff isn't in PA either,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sorry, you are just showing how ignorant you are.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> G_F ↔ ¬Prove_F(Gödel_Number(G_F)) contains a semantic
>>>>>>> dependency loop, because evaluating G_F requires
>>>>>>> evaluating Prove_F on the Gödel number of G_F, which
>>>>>>> in turn requires evaluating G_F again;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But that isn't G_F
>>>>>>
>>>>>> G_F is a statement that a particular relationship (lets call it 
>>>>>> R(x) ) will not be satisfied for any natural number x.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That relationship has never existed inside actual
>>>>> arithmetic
>>>>
>>>> It actually IS a relationship in the domain of PA. PUNTO.
>>>>
>>>> It is what it is. Denial is hopeless.
>>>
>>> When PA is actually given its own truth predicate
>>> anchored only in its own axioms then for the first
>>> time one see that meta-math truth in the standard
>>> model of arithmetic never was actually true in PA
>>> itself at all.
>>>
>>
>> But PA can't be given such a truth predicate and reamin consistant.
>>
> 
> Unless the foundation model theory is replaced
> with the foundation of proof theory and proof
> theory itself is grounded in Haskell Curry's
> notion of "true in the system".

Try to show that working, and HAVE a truth predicate.

Remember, a truth predicate is "True" if the input is a true expression, 
and "False" if the input is something else, being either a False 
statement, or a not-well-founded statement, or even just plain non-sense.

> 
>> Your provblem is you are too stupid to understand the problem.
>>
>> I guess you claim is that if the meta arithmatic uses the fact that 2 
>> * 3 = 6, then maybe in the base arithmatic 2 * 3 might now be 8.
> 
> 

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  Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-17 16:54 -0500
    Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-01-17 16:50 -0600
      Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-17 19:14 -0500
        Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-01-17 18:49 -0600
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            Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-01-17 19:30 -0600
              Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-17 20:46 -0500
                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-01-17 19:59 -0600
                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-17 22:20 -0500
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                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-17 23:13 -0500
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                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-18 12:37 -0500
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                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-18 15:55 -0500
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                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-18 18:28 -0500
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                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-18 19:28 -0500
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                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-20 00:29 -0500
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                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-20 23:00 -0500
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                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <news.x.richarddamon@xoxy.net> - 2026-01-18 22:56 -0500
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                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <news.x.richarddamon@xoxy.net> - 2026-01-19 06:49 -0500
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                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-20 23:04 -0500
                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-01-20 22:54 -0600
                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <news.x.richarddamon@xoxy.net> - 2026-01-21 07:35 -0500
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                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-01-21 21:53 -0600
                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Python <python@cccp.invalid> - 2026-01-22 04:59 +0000
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                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-22 19:17 -0500
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                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-01-20 17:33 -0600
                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-22 19:23 -0500
                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-01-22 18:49 -0600
                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-01-22 19:05 -0600
                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-22 21:48 -0500
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                Re: Gödel's G has never actually been true in arithmetic Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-01-23 00:23 +0000
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