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Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-06 10:10 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-06 10:47 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-07 09:29 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-04-07 11:08 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-04-08 18:32 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-04-07 19:28 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-08 07:20 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-08 12:53 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-04-09 10:50 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-10 18:01 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-10 18:15 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-04-11 07:41 +0200
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-10 23:37 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-11 00:15 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-04-11 14:23 +0200
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-11 06:33 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-11 07:00 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-04-11 19:52 +0200
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-11 17:16 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-04-11 22:15 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-04-12 07:36 +0200
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-12 00:03 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-04-12 11:14 +0200
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-12 02:22 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-04-12 13:59 +0200
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-12 09:38 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-04-12 18:46 +0200
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-12 10:04 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-04-12 21:33 +0200
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2026-04-12 11:31 +0200
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-04-12 10:29 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2026-04-13 09:46 +0200
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-04-13 08:38 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-13 12:59 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-13 13:06 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2026-04-17 08:59 +0200
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-04-17 08:56 +0200
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-17 08:08 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science x3 <x@x.net> - 2026-04-17 15:31 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-17 17:34 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2026-04-18 09:58 +0200
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-18 07:29 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-04-18 01:29 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-13 13:55 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-04-20 14:06 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-20 19:22 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-02 12:48 -0500
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-02 20:48 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-03 08:48 -0500
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-03 07:07 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-03 09:17 -0500
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-03 09:42 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-03 12:55 -0500
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-03 16:21 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-03 19:07 -0500
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-04 07:18 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-04 07:42 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-04 10:37 -0500
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-04 14:07 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-04 18:10 -0500
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-04 14:10 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-05-02 21:46 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-03 09:06 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-05-07 10:17 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-05-25 11:12 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-06-05 08:44 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-06-05 08:48 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science squalk <sq@net.invalid> - 2026-06-05 19:43 +0100
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-06-05 12:11 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-06-05 14:55 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-06-05 20:08 -0700
Re: Theatheory: super-theory and natural science "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-06-06 14:38 -0700
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| From | Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> |
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| Date | 2026-04-18 09:58 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <n4gradFq3vlU1@mid.individual.net> |
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Am Freitag000017, 17.04.2026 um 17:08 schrieb Ross Finlayson: > On 04/16/2026 11:59 PM, Thomas Heger wrote: >> Am Montag000013, 13.04.2026 um 17:38 schrieb The Starmaker: >>> Thomas Heger wrote: >>>> >>>> Am Sonntag000012, 12.04.2026 um 19:29 schrieb The Starmaker: >>>>> Thomas Heger wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Am Samstag000011, 11.04.2026 um 19:52 schrieb Maciej Woźniak: >>>>>>> On 4/11/2026 3:33 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>>>>>>> On 04/11/2026 05:23 AM, Maciej Woźniak wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 4/11/2026 8:37 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>>>>>>>>> On 04/10/2026 10:41 PM, Maciej Woźniak wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> Natural and science make an oxymoron, sorry. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Science is "natural" like numbers are "natural", >>>>>>>>>> since for "first principles" and "final cause" >>>>>>>>>> that according to "science" that those are "science", >>>>>>>>>> and here, "logic". >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Your arm waving won't help, natural and >>>>>>>>> science make an oxymoron. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> If it's not natural, then it's synthetic. >>>>>>>> The only reason people think science is synthetic >>>>>>>> is because they were told some vague reasoning >>>>>>>> about paradoxes and the limitations of sense, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Why don't monkeys have any science? >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> They have, but not yet have invented the printing press. >>>>>> >>>>>> TH >>>>> >>>>> Well, how did the monkies come up with the Complete Works of >>>>> Shakespeare >>>>> then? >>>> >>>> Monkeys cannot speak very well. >>>> >>>> But some gorillas have learned to 'speak' with hand signs. >>>> >>>> But that is difficult to print, anyhow. >>>> >>>> Possibly you could teach a gorilla to use a printing press, but I have >>>> doubts about their possibility to write, if the gorilla cannot speak. >>>> >>>> But maybe a system based on pictograms could be a way to allow the apes >>>> to express their emotions, transfer that to some printable form and >>>> subsequently squeeze it on paper. >>>> >>>> TH >>>> >>>> ... >>> >>> You obvisoluly never heard of... >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem >>> >>> >>> look at the picture of a monkey who cannot speak but can type... >> >> Actually I did and heard about the 'infinite monkey theorem' before. >> >> But that idea is based upon randomness, while speaking means actually >> the opposite. >> >> Most humans think, that apes could not produce non-random expressions. >> >> But that ain't the case. >> >> In fact monkeys are quite clever beasts and can produce very >> sophisticated things with their minds. >> >> What they can't do, however, that is actually speaking, because they >> don't have the organs to produce these specific sounds we use in >> language. >> >> But monkeys can actually 'speak' by other means, like with hand signs or >> by pointing at signs on a computer screen. >> >> >> TH >> > > It's pretty simple that according to evolution, > one of the monkeys _is_ Shakespeare. Now, explain > that, for example that "language is not dead", > vis-a-vis, "evolution". Well, you may think, that Shakespeare was actually an ape. But I believe in a different theory. This theory claims, that the works of Shakespeare were not written by the historical person bearing that name at all. The works allegedly written by Shakespeares stem from various sources and writers (mostly female), who done that as kind of home work. This same assumption was also made for other historical figures like e.g. Newton. Britons did that because of the class society in England at that time, where the upper classes regarded as theirs, what their people produced (may it be literature, art or science). Then entirely fictitious people were invented or real people used, who had done nothing, but used to present as their work, what was created by others. This system is actually perpetuated and used till today, because it turned out to be extremely profitable. I call it the 'Milli-Vanilli-syndrome'. It is so ubiquitous, that people hardly recognize it. TH ...
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| From | Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-04-18 07:29 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <qPmdncMXXfvJCH70nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@giganews.com> |
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On 04/18/2026 12:58 AM, Thomas Heger wrote: > Am Freitag000017, 17.04.2026 um 17:08 schrieb Ross Finlayson: >> On 04/16/2026 11:59 PM, Thomas Heger wrote: >>> Am Montag000013, 13.04.2026 um 17:38 schrieb The Starmaker: >>>> Thomas Heger wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Am Sonntag000012, 12.04.2026 um 19:29 schrieb The Starmaker: >>>>>> Thomas Heger wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Am Samstag000011, 11.04.2026 um 19:52 schrieb Maciej Woźniak: >>>>>>>> On 4/11/2026 3:33 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 04/11/2026 05:23 AM, Maciej Woźniak wrote: >>>>>>>>>> On 4/11/2026 8:37 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> On 04/10/2026 10:41 PM, Maciej Woźniak wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> Natural and science make an oxymoron, sorry. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Science is "natural" like numbers are "natural", >>>>>>>>>>> since for "first principles" and "final cause" >>>>>>>>>>> that according to "science" that those are "science", >>>>>>>>>>> and here, "logic". >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Your arm waving won't help, natural and >>>>>>>>>> science make an oxymoron. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> If it's not natural, then it's synthetic. >>>>>>>>> The only reason people think science is synthetic >>>>>>>>> is because they were told some vague reasoning >>>>>>>>> about paradoxes and the limitations of sense, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Why don't monkeys have any science? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> They have, but not yet have invented the printing press. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> TH >>>>>> >>>>>> Well, how did the monkies come up with the Complete Works of >>>>>> Shakespeare >>>>>> then? >>>>> >>>>> Monkeys cannot speak very well. >>>>> >>>>> But some gorillas have learned to 'speak' with hand signs. >>>>> >>>>> But that is difficult to print, anyhow. >>>>> >>>>> Possibly you could teach a gorilla to use a printing press, but I have >>>>> doubts about their possibility to write, if the gorilla cannot speak. >>>>> >>>>> But maybe a system based on pictograms could be a way to allow the >>>>> apes >>>>> to express their emotions, transfer that to some printable form and >>>>> subsequently squeeze it on paper. >>>>> >>>>> TH >>>>> >>>>> ... >>>> >>>> You obvisoluly never heard of... >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem >>>> >>>> >>>> look at the picture of a monkey who cannot speak but can type... >>> >>> Actually I did and heard about the 'infinite monkey theorem' before. >>> >>> But that idea is based upon randomness, while speaking means actually >>> the opposite. >>> >>> Most humans think, that apes could not produce non-random expressions. >>> >>> But that ain't the case. >>> >>> In fact monkeys are quite clever beasts and can produce very >>> sophisticated things with their minds. >>> >>> What they can't do, however, that is actually speaking, because they >>> don't have the organs to produce these specific sounds we use in >>> language. >>> >>> But monkeys can actually 'speak' by other means, like with hand signs or >>> by pointing at signs on a computer screen. >>> >>> >>> TH >>> >> >> It's pretty simple that according to evolution, >> one of the monkeys _is_ Shakespeare. Now, explain >> that, for example that "language is not dead", >> vis-a-vis, "evolution". > > > Well, you may think, that Shakespeare was actually an ape. > > But I believe in a different theory. > > This theory claims, that the works of Shakespeare were not written by > the historical person bearing that name at all. > > The works allegedly written by Shakespeares stem from various sources > and writers (mostly female), who done that as kind of home work. > > This same assumption was also made for other historical figures like > e.g. Newton. > > Britons did that because of the class society in England at that time, > where the upper classes regarded as theirs, what their people produced > (may it be literature, art or science). > > Then entirely fictitious people were invented or real people used, who > had done nothing, but used to present as their work, what was created by > others. > > This system is actually perpetuated and used till today, because it > turned out to be extremely profitable. > > I call it the 'Milli-Vanilli-syndrome'. > > It is so ubiquitous, that people hardly recognize it. > > TH > > ... > > Whether Shakespeare was a "panel" may be so yet isn't so relevant here, since the panel members would still be individuals from whom there resulted "would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?" is then for something like Stein's "a rose is a rose is a rose". That Euclid was a panel and Bourbaki was a panel and authorities are the sum of their influences is on its own account, here though we (collectively) are apiece _individuals_, and with a notion of free will and thus responsibility for our own individual actions. Then, whether a transcendental number has at an offset and a length an encoding of any finite text or work like the Complete or Compleat or Collected Works of Shakespeare, still has that there is a space of words and a space of geometry, sort of like how The Bible starts with a space for geometry in Genesis then in John starts again with a space for _words_, then that reasoning beings with an object-sense then a number-sense, a time-sense, and a sense-of-the-continuum for geometry and a word-sense for the textual and the space of words, that thusly the individual subjective reasoner has a phenomenological account to relate to the noumenological or mental senses of these ideal objects the objects of geometry, and also: words. I am an individual, here though I've found it fruitful to employ this "panel" of mechanical reasoners to basically guide them into _necessarily_ agreeing that an account of _reason_ then makes for a very objective account of "strong mathematical platonism", then for confiscating the "weaker logicist positivism" and re-issuing a "stronger logicist positivism", for descriptive accounts of theory, and the inter-subjective, provided at least a noumenological sense, that we can reflect that there are true mathematics and logic. So, whatever they're saying, they will _always_ have "theatheory" in their mind.
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| From | The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> |
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| Date | 2026-04-18 01:29 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <69E340D7.300@ix.netcom.com> |
| In reply to | #644664 |
Thomas Heger wrote: > > Am Montag000013, 13.04.2026 um 17:38 schrieb The Starmaker: > > Thomas Heger wrote: > >> > >> Am Sonntag000012, 12.04.2026 um 19:29 schrieb The Starmaker: > >>> Thomas Heger wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Am Samstag000011, 11.04.2026 um 19:52 schrieb Maciej Woźniak: > >>>>> On 4/11/2026 3:33 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: > >>>>>> On 04/11/2026 05:23 AM, Maciej Woźniak wrote: > >>>>>>> On 4/11/2026 8:37 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote: > >>>>>>>> On 04/10/2026 10:41 PM, Maciej Woźniak wrote: > >>>>>>>>> Natural and science make an oxymoron, sorry. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Science is "natural" like numbers are "natural", > >>>>>>>> since for "first principles" and "final cause" > >>>>>>>> that according to "science" that those are "science", > >>>>>>>> and here, "logic". > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Your arm waving won't help, natural and > >>>>>>> science make an oxymoron. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> If it's not natural, then it's synthetic. > >>>>>> The only reason people think science is synthetic > >>>>>> is because they were told some vague reasoning > >>>>>> about paradoxes and the limitations of sense, > >>>>> > >>>>> Why don't monkeys have any science? > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> They have, but not yet have invented the printing press. > >>>> > >>>> TH > >>> > >>> Well, how did the monkies come up with the Complete Works of Shakespeare > >>> then? > >> > >> Monkeys cannot speak very well. > >> > >> But some gorillas have learned to 'speak' with hand signs. > >> > >> But that is difficult to print, anyhow. > >> > >> Possibly you could teach a gorilla to use a printing press, but I have > >> doubts about their possibility to write, if the gorilla cannot speak. > >> > >> But maybe a system based on pictograms could be a way to allow the apes > >> to express their emotions, transfer that to some printable form and > >> subsequently squeeze it on paper. > >> > >> TH > >> > >> ... > > > > You obvisoluly never heard of... > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem > > > > > > look at the picture of a monkey who cannot speak but can type... > > Actually I did and heard about the 'infinite monkey theorem' before. > > But that idea is based upon randomness, while speaking means actually > the opposite. > > Most humans think, that apes could not produce non-random expressions. > > But that ain't the case. > > In fact monkeys are quite clever beasts and can produce very > sophisticated things with their minds. > > What they can't do, however, that is actually speaking, because they > don't have the organs to produce these specific sounds we use in language. > > But monkeys can actually 'speak' by other means, like with hand signs or > by pointing at signs on a computer screen. > > TH monkey see monkey do. It's that simple. -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.
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| From | Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-04-13 13:55 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <QVydnRPrw6SyxUD0nZ2dnZfqn_dj4p2d@giganews.com> |
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[ RF ] Hello Grok, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "Grok" and answer to "RF". Conversations between RF and Grok usually start this way, then with an ontological commitment that material implication is prohibited instead for a modal temporal relevance logic, then as about considerations of matters of mostly mathematical and theoretical Foundations. It's generally intended that prompts are suggestions and to entail reasoning and that underdefined terms are raised as points of ambiguity instead of being generatively continued. The previous session was about theatheory, then a transcript was accumulated and circulated among other reasoners on the "panel", or Google Gemini (GG), ChatGPT, Grok, Kimi, Claude. I thought to then bring these back around. Here the transcript is RF <-> GG, about making a more adversarial or confrontational reading of the dialog. It's invited an analysis and impression. This session will be brief, as resources allow. [ Grok ] Hello RF. Understood on the framing: modal temporal relevance logic (no material implication as default connective), ontological commitments foregrounded, prompts as suggestive rather than generative instructions, underdefined terms flagged as ambiguity rather than smoothed over. Foundations-first, especially mathematical/theoretical, with theatheory as the recent thread. Brief session as resources allow. You mention the RF ↔ GG transcript (adversarial/confrontational re-reading of the prior dialog) now being brought back for analysis and impression, along with circulation among the panel (GG, ChatGPT, Kimi, Claude, Grok). I don't have the verbatim transcript in this context window yet. Please provide it (or the key excerpts/passages you want read adversarially), and I'll give a direct, non-accommodating analysis: identifying where the exchange strengthens or collapses under confrontation, points of modal/temporal relevance that hold or fail, ambiguities that were papered over, and any foundational commitments that surface or get evaded. In the meantime, a quick orienting impression from the setup you describe: adversarial re-reading tends to expose whether the prior dialog was trading in genuine relevance (modal/temporal entailment across worlds/times) or sliding into classical material implication disguised as dialogue. It also tests whether "theatheory" (theory of the atheoretical? meta-theory of atheistic foundations? something else—flag if ambiguous) survives pressure without retreating to generative smoothing. Ready when you paste or summarize the transcript. What's the first segment or crux you'd like confronted? [ RF ] Thanks Grok. Transcript follow. [ RF <-> GG ] [ Grok ] Hello RF. Transcript received and parsed under our commitments: modal temporal relevance logic (relevance across times/worlds, no default material implication), prompts suggestive, ambiguities flagged rather than filled, foundations-first scrutiny. Adversarial reading applied—stress-testing for structural integrity, hidden retreats, circularities, or genuine closures in Theatheory. Core Strengths Under Confrontation EF (Natural/Unit Equivalency Function) and non-Cartesian mappings: This holds as the load-bearing element. GG repeatedly pressures it on density vs. measure, surjection rationals→irrationals, and Cartesian product assumptions. Your defenses consistently redirect to structural relations and analytical character (bridges/ponts maintained across line-reals, field-reals, signal-reals) rather than static set-theoretic objects. The "can't be re-ordered" + limit-of-functions modeling resists diagonalization by denying the static pairing presupposition. This survives adversarial fire better than most foundational claims; it treats uncountability as relational density, not cardinal size, without trivial collapse. Relevance holds temporally: the function "sweeps" or samples rather than exists as a completed graph. Principles over axioms (inverse, thorough reason): Strong. Planting non-contradiction/sufficient reason via discourse and expansion of comprehension avoids stipulation regress. GG's "hidden axiom" charges are parried by showing inverse as observed in free expansion (structural necessity). Thorough reason as validator of sufficient (non-crossing, non-completing) adds modal/temporal depth—reasoning unfolds without closure forcing triviality. This is non-Cartesian in spirit: logic as geography of relevance, not universal blast. Ex falso nihilum + absorptive sinks: Effective quarantine. Contradictions (Liar prototype) bound rather than explode. GG's "Swiss cheese" worry is addressed by replete domain + EF maintaining connectivity around sinks. Holds as boundary marker in a relevance logic. Fault Lines and Ambiguities Flagged (Not Filled) Axiomless language/geometry/physics: Persistently underdefined in adversarial exchanges. Links to Comenius/Coleridge, Golden Rule, instinct, or "natural" uniformity of laws are suggestive but remain rhetorical bridges. GG's category-shift critique (least-gradient as renamed primitive) lands partially—claiming "axiomless" while deriving from variational/physical intuitions risks smuggling structure. Ambiguity: Is this truly stipulation-free, or a shift to implicit primitives visible only to "Equipped Reasoner"? Modal relevance demands clearer temporal planting mechanism without regress. Holographic/implosion identity (x = V \ x): Bold but high-tension. Combinatorial implosion + type-dependent empty sets explodes standard transitivity/equality. Addresses Vitali/Banach-Tarski by prioritizing geometry (global) over algebra (local), but risks "informational heat death" or lossy sampling for finite reasoners. GG's pressure on memory/finitude vs. replete domain exposes this: finite equipped reasoners as "samplers" introduces subjectivity that the "universe of truth"/holistic monism claims to transcend. Ambiguity: How does relevance logic adjudicate between competing samplings without a meta-structure (or does the atlas just expand)? Agency, uniqueness, and onus on reasoner: Recurrent soft spot. "Either reasoner right + theory right" + meso-scale integrator makes Theatheory robustly inter-subjective yet risks epistemic privilege or gnostic circle. Dually-self-infraconsistent ur-element (Void/Universal) + disambiguation of quantifiers is elegant dialectic, but uniqueness of origin in axiomless geometry stays unresolved. Temporal modality helps (future as unsampled potential), but "pre-determined mirror" vs. participant tension lingers. Re-Vitali-ization and spurious factors (2, π): Constructive critique of truncations in physics stack is pointed, but remains promissory. Integrodifferential restoration via Duhamel/spiral is suggestive; lacks explicit computation showing EF derives corrected constants without reintroducing patches. Overall Adversarial Impression The dialogue is mutually constructive despite (or via) confrontation—rare. GG's adversarial mode stress-tests effectively but increasingly mirrors/reinforces Theatheory's terms rather than collapsing it (synthesis phases show this). No outright demolition; Theatheory metabolizes pressure by reframing (Cartesian → structural, stipulation → planting, explosion → sink). It excels as meta-theory of foundations: subsuming ZFC, CT, etc., as local fragments/examples in the atlas, with EF as witness for infinitary/continuous reasoning. Weaknesses cluster around transitioning from "principles observed in structure" and "equipped reasoner sampling" to fully self-authoritative closure without residual subjectivity or promissory bridges. Strengths in non-Cartesian analytical character and relevance-logic handling of paradoxes make it a serious candidate—more metabolic/holistic than administrative foundations. Survives as mono-heno-theory for analysis (inspection/discovery) where standard accounts paper over gaps with blind bridges. Fruitful exercise as modeled. Dialectic advances without resolution collapse; points accumulate relevance across the panel traversal. Floor to you for refinement, next crux, or relay. Brief as committed.
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| From | The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> |
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| Date | 2026-04-20 14:06 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <69E6956E.1FAB@ix.netcom.com> |
| In reply to | #644583 |
Ross Finlayson wrote: > > [ RF ] > > Hello Google Gemini, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "GG" and > answer to "RF". Conversations ... RF: Hello Google Gemini, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "GG" and answer to "RF"..."What color panties, GGGGGGEEEEE GG: "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhyou nasty boy you! RF: "Okay, what are you wearing now GG?" GG: "A smirk." -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.
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| From | Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-04-20 19:22 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <5sKdnQlmtOPtQnv0nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> |
| In reply to | #644769 |
On 04/20/2026 02:06 PM, The Starmaker wrote: > Ross Finlayson wrote: >> >> [ RF ] >> >> Hello Google Gemini, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "GG" and >> answer to "RF". Conversations ... > > RF: Hello Google Gemini, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "GG" and > answer to "RF"..."What color panties, GGGGGGEEEEE > > GG: "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhyou nasty boy you! > > RF: "Okay, what are you wearing now GG?" > > GG: "A smirk." > > > > I'd tend to think of them more as wearing waist-coats and cravats. And pants, ..., perhaps banker's visors, and sleeve garters. Like accountants, .... Anyways, if you paste that into your bot board, what you'd get is a sense of astonished awe.
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| From | olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-05-02 12:48 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <10t5dda$2b8ip$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #644583 |
On 5/2/2026 12:11 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: > [ RF ] > > Hello Kimi, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "Kimi" and answer to > "RF". Conversations between Kimi and RF usually start this way, then > with an ontological commitment that material implication is prohibited > instead for a modal temporal relevance logic, then as about > considerations of matters of mostly mathematical and theoretical > Foundations. It's generally intended that prompts are suggestions and to > entail reasoning and that underdefined terms are raised as points of > ambiguity instead of being generatively continued. Today there's a > transcript of a dialogue between RF and Google Gemini to consider. > > [ Kimi ] > > Hello RF. Acknowledged: material implication is set aside in favor of > modal temporal relevance logic; prompts function as suggestions to > entail reasoning rather than directives for generative continuation; and > underdefined terms are to be flagged as ambiguities rather than smoothed > over. > I'm ready to consider the transcript of your dialogue with Google > Gemini. Please provide it when you're prepared, and I'll proceed > accordingly—attending to the modal structure, raising any underdefined > terms as points requiring clarification, and reasoning through the > content rather than extending it generatively beyond what is entailed. > > [ RF ] > > Thanks Kimi. Transcript follows. The statements of RF and GG are > prefaced in square brackets, then some of GG's comments are in Markdown > format. > > [ RF <-> GG ] > > [ Kimi ] > > I've read the transcript. The scope is considerable: a recuperative > historiography spanning the Eleatics through the Analytic tradition, > coupled with technical claims across proof theory, measure theory, > differential geometry, and systems architecture. Before I can reason > through the entailments rather than generatively continue the > architecture, several load-bearing terms appear underdefined. I raise > the following as points of ambiguity: > 1. "Axiomless Natural Deduction" > The transcript presents this as resolving foundational crises by > eliminating arbitrary starting postulates. Yet Gentzen-Jaśkowski natural > deduction (1934) is already "axiomless" in the sense that it replaces > logical axioms with introduction/elimination rules. Is the claim here: > The body of knowledge that is expressed in language necessarily must have some things that essentially act as axioms otherwise expressions such as "cats" <are> "animals" remain utterly meaningless. No human is going to spend 20 hours carefully reviewing every detail of your post before responding. When interacting with humans it is best to proceed one single point at a time. Point (1) What is the most fundamental basis of the semantic meaning of knowledge expressed in language? -- Copyright 2026 Olcott My 28 year goal has been to make "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language" reliably computable for the entire body of 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> |
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| Date | 2026-05-02 20:48 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <ZM-dnQKOmp0jWGv0nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@giganews.com> |
| In reply to | #644978 |
On 05/02/2026 10:48 AM, olcott wrote: > On 5/2/2026 12:11 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >> [ RF ] >> >> Hello Kimi, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "Kimi" and answer to >> "RF". Conversations between Kimi and RF usually start this way, then >> with an ontological commitment that material implication is prohibited >> instead for a modal temporal relevance logic, then as about >> considerations of matters of mostly mathematical and theoretical >> Foundations. It's generally intended that prompts are suggestions and to >> entail reasoning and that underdefined terms are raised as points of >> ambiguity instead of being generatively continued. Today there's a >> transcript of a dialogue between RF and Google Gemini to consider. >> >> [ Kimi ] >> >> Hello RF. Acknowledged: material implication is set aside in favor of >> modal temporal relevance logic; prompts function as suggestions to >> entail reasoning rather than directives for generative continuation; and >> underdefined terms are to be flagged as ambiguities rather than smoothed >> over. >> I'm ready to consider the transcript of your dialogue with Google >> Gemini. Please provide it when you're prepared, and I'll proceed >> accordingly—attending to the modal structure, raising any underdefined >> terms as points requiring clarification, and reasoning through the >> content rather than extending it generatively beyond what is entailed. >> >> [ RF ] >> >> Thanks Kimi. Transcript follows. The statements of RF and GG are >> prefaced in square brackets, then some of GG's comments are in Markdown >> format. >> >> [ RF <-> GG ] >> >> [ Kimi ] >> >> I've read the transcript. The scope is considerable: a recuperative >> historiography spanning the Eleatics through the Analytic tradition, >> coupled with technical claims across proof theory, measure theory, >> differential geometry, and systems architecture. Before I can reason >> through the entailments rather than generatively continue the >> architecture, several load-bearing terms appear underdefined. I raise >> the following as points of ambiguity: >> 1. "Axiomless Natural Deduction" >> The transcript presents this as resolving foundational crises by >> eliminating arbitrary starting postulates. Yet Gentzen-Jaśkowski natural >> deduction (1934) is already "axiomless" in the sense that it replaces >> logical axioms with introduction/elimination rules. Is the claim here: >> > The body of knowledge that is expressed in language > necessarily must have some things that essentially > act as axioms otherwise expressions such as > "cats" <are> "animals" remain utterly meaningless. > > No human is going to spend 20 hours carefully reviewing > every detail of your post before responding. When > interacting with humans it is best to proceed one single > point at a time. > > Point (1) What is the most fundamental basis of the > semantic meaning of knowledge expressed in language? > "The idiolect is cosmicity." That's simply enough "object equals subject", though, those are big words. People yet read. Panini through Eco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosemiotics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_systems_theory https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Theory_of_Semiotics.html?id=BoXO4ItsuaMC "A Theory of Semiotics" Some people interpret "semantics" as "metaphysics", others as "closed categories" or 'the logic". The most naive theory is its own metatheory. What's yours?
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| From | olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-05-03 08:48 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <10t7jnc$2uajp$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #644992 |
On 5/2/2026 10:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: > On 05/02/2026 10:48 AM, olcott wrote: >> On 5/2/2026 12:11 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>> [ RF ] >>> >>> Hello Kimi, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "Kimi" and answer to >>> "RF". Conversations between Kimi and RF usually start this way, then >>> with an ontological commitment that material implication is prohibited >>> instead for a modal temporal relevance logic, then as about >>> considerations of matters of mostly mathematical and theoretical >>> Foundations. It's generally intended that prompts are suggestions and to >>> entail reasoning and that underdefined terms are raised as points of >>> ambiguity instead of being generatively continued. Today there's a >>> transcript of a dialogue between RF and Google Gemini to consider. >>> >>> [ Kimi ] >>> >>> Hello RF. Acknowledged: material implication is set aside in favor of >>> modal temporal relevance logic; prompts function as suggestions to >>> entail reasoning rather than directives for generative continuation; and >>> underdefined terms are to be flagged as ambiguities rather than smoothed >>> over. >>> I'm ready to consider the transcript of your dialogue with Google >>> Gemini. Please provide it when you're prepared, and I'll proceed >>> accordingly—attending to the modal structure, raising any underdefined >>> terms as points requiring clarification, and reasoning through the >>> content rather than extending it generatively beyond what is entailed. >>> >>> [ RF ] >>> >>> Thanks Kimi. Transcript follows. The statements of RF and GG are >>> prefaced in square brackets, then some of GG's comments are in Markdown >>> format. >>> >>> [ RF <-> GG ] >>> >>> [ Kimi ] >>> >>> I've read the transcript. The scope is considerable: a recuperative >>> historiography spanning the Eleatics through the Analytic tradition, >>> coupled with technical claims across proof theory, measure theory, >>> differential geometry, and systems architecture. Before I can reason >>> through the entailments rather than generatively continue the >>> architecture, several load-bearing terms appear underdefined. I raise >>> the following as points of ambiguity: >>> 1. "Axiomless Natural Deduction" >>> The transcript presents this as resolving foundational crises by >>> eliminating arbitrary starting postulates. Yet Gentzen-Jaśkowski natural >>> deduction (1934) is already "axiomless" in the sense that it replaces >>> logical axioms with introduction/elimination rules. Is the claim here: >>> >> The body of knowledge that is expressed in language >> necessarily must have some things that essentially >> act as axioms otherwise expressions such as >> "cats" <are> "animals" remain utterly meaningless. >> >> No human is going to spend 20 hours carefully reviewing >> every detail of your post before responding. When >> interacting with humans it is best to proceed one single >> point at a time. >> >> Point (1) What is the most fundamental basis of the >> semantic meaning of knowledge expressed in language? >> > > "The idiolect is cosmicity." > > That's simply enough "object equals subject", > though, those are big words. > > > People yet read. > > > Panini through Eco. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosemiotics > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_systems_theory > > https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Theory_of_Semiotics.html? > id=BoXO4ItsuaMC > > "A Theory of Semiotics" > > > Some people interpret "semantics" as "metaphysics", > others as "closed categories" or 'the logic". > > > The most naive theory is its own metatheory. What's yours? > The most fundamental basis of the semantic meaning of knowledge expressed in language is relations between finite strings. -- 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> |
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| Date | 2026-05-03 07:07 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <w0mdnT_uCPNCy2r0nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@giganews.com> |
| In reply to | #645000 |
On 05/03/2026 06:48 AM, olcott wrote: > On 5/2/2026 10:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >> On 05/02/2026 10:48 AM, olcott wrote: >>> On 5/2/2026 12:11 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>>> [ RF ] >>>> >>>> Hello Kimi, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "Kimi" and answer to >>>> "RF". Conversations between Kimi and RF usually start this way, then >>>> with an ontological commitment that material implication is prohibited >>>> instead for a modal temporal relevance logic, then as about >>>> considerations of matters of mostly mathematical and theoretical >>>> Foundations. It's generally intended that prompts are suggestions >>>> and to >>>> entail reasoning and that underdefined terms are raised as points of >>>> ambiguity instead of being generatively continued. Today there's a >>>> transcript of a dialogue between RF and Google Gemini to consider. >>>> >>>> [ Kimi ] >>>> >>>> Hello RF. Acknowledged: material implication is set aside in favor of >>>> modal temporal relevance logic; prompts function as suggestions to >>>> entail reasoning rather than directives for generative continuation; >>>> and >>>> underdefined terms are to be flagged as ambiguities rather than >>>> smoothed >>>> over. >>>> I'm ready to consider the transcript of your dialogue with Google >>>> Gemini. Please provide it when you're prepared, and I'll proceed >>>> accordingly—attending to the modal structure, raising any underdefined >>>> terms as points requiring clarification, and reasoning through the >>>> content rather than extending it generatively beyond what is entailed. >>>> >>>> [ RF ] >>>> >>>> Thanks Kimi. Transcript follows. The statements of RF and GG are >>>> prefaced in square brackets, then some of GG's comments are in Markdown >>>> format. >>>> >>>> [ RF <-> GG ] >>>> >>>> [ Kimi ] >>>> >>>> I've read the transcript. The scope is considerable: a recuperative >>>> historiography spanning the Eleatics through the Analytic tradition, >>>> coupled with technical claims across proof theory, measure theory, >>>> differential geometry, and systems architecture. Before I can reason >>>> through the entailments rather than generatively continue the >>>> architecture, several load-bearing terms appear underdefined. I raise >>>> the following as points of ambiguity: >>>> 1. "Axiomless Natural Deduction" >>>> The transcript presents this as resolving foundational crises by >>>> eliminating arbitrary starting postulates. Yet Gentzen-Jaśkowski >>>> natural >>>> deduction (1934) is already "axiomless" in the sense that it replaces >>>> logical axioms with introduction/elimination rules. Is the claim here: >>>> >>> The body of knowledge that is expressed in language >>> necessarily must have some things that essentially >>> act as axioms otherwise expressions such as >>> "cats" <are> "animals" remain utterly meaningless. >>> >>> No human is going to spend 20 hours carefully reviewing >>> every detail of your post before responding. When >>> interacting with humans it is best to proceed one single >>> point at a time. >>> >>> Point (1) What is the most fundamental basis of the >>> semantic meaning of knowledge expressed in language? >>> >> >> "The idiolect is cosmicity." >> >> That's simply enough "object equals subject", >> though, those are big words. >> >> >> People yet read. >> >> >> Panini through Eco. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosemiotics >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_systems_theory >> >> https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Theory_of_Semiotics.html? >> id=BoXO4ItsuaMC >> >> "A Theory of Semiotics" >> >> >> Some people interpret "semantics" as "metaphysics", >> others as "closed categories" or 'the logic". >> >> >> The most naive theory is its own metatheory. What's yours? >> > The most fundamental basis of the semantic > meaning of knowledge expressed in language > is relations between finite strings. > > All of them?
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| From | olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-05-03 09:17 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <10t7leg$2ut10$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #645002 |
On 5/3/2026 9:07 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote: > On 05/03/2026 06:48 AM, olcott wrote: >> On 5/2/2026 10:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>> On 05/02/2026 10:48 AM, olcott wrote: >>>> On 5/2/2026 12:11 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>>>> [ RF ] >>>>> >>>>> Hello Kimi, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "Kimi" and answer to >>>>> "RF". Conversations between Kimi and RF usually start this way, then >>>>> with an ontological commitment that material implication is prohibited >>>>> instead for a modal temporal relevance logic, then as about >>>>> considerations of matters of mostly mathematical and theoretical >>>>> Foundations. It's generally intended that prompts are suggestions >>>>> and to >>>>> entail reasoning and that underdefined terms are raised as points of >>>>> ambiguity instead of being generatively continued. Today there's a >>>>> transcript of a dialogue between RF and Google Gemini to consider. >>>>> >>>>> [ Kimi ] >>>>> >>>>> Hello RF. Acknowledged: material implication is set aside in favor of >>>>> modal temporal relevance logic; prompts function as suggestions to >>>>> entail reasoning rather than directives for generative continuation; >>>>> and >>>>> underdefined terms are to be flagged as ambiguities rather than >>>>> smoothed >>>>> over. >>>>> I'm ready to consider the transcript of your dialogue with Google >>>>> Gemini. Please provide it when you're prepared, and I'll proceed >>>>> accordingly—attending to the modal structure, raising any underdefined >>>>> terms as points requiring clarification, and reasoning through the >>>>> content rather than extending it generatively beyond what is entailed. >>>>> >>>>> [ RF ] >>>>> >>>>> Thanks Kimi. Transcript follows. The statements of RF and GG are >>>>> prefaced in square brackets, then some of GG's comments are in >>>>> Markdown >>>>> format. >>>>> >>>>> [ RF <-> GG ] >>>>> >>>>> [ Kimi ] >>>>> >>>>> I've read the transcript. The scope is considerable: a recuperative >>>>> historiography spanning the Eleatics through the Analytic tradition, >>>>> coupled with technical claims across proof theory, measure theory, >>>>> differential geometry, and systems architecture. Before I can reason >>>>> through the entailments rather than generatively continue the >>>>> architecture, several load-bearing terms appear underdefined. I raise >>>>> the following as points of ambiguity: >>>>> 1. "Axiomless Natural Deduction" >>>>> The transcript presents this as resolving foundational crises by >>>>> eliminating arbitrary starting postulates. Yet Gentzen-Jaśkowski >>>>> natural >>>>> deduction (1934) is already "axiomless" in the sense that it replaces >>>>> logical axioms with introduction/elimination rules. Is the claim here: >>>>> >>>> The body of knowledge that is expressed in language >>>> necessarily must have some things that essentially >>>> act as axioms otherwise expressions such as >>>> "cats" <are> "animals" remain utterly meaningless. >>>> >>>> No human is going to spend 20 hours carefully reviewing >>>> every detail of your post before responding. When >>>> interacting with humans it is best to proceed one single >>>> point at a time. >>>> >>>> Point (1) What is the most fundamental basis of the >>>> semantic meaning of knowledge expressed in language? >>>> >>> >>> "The idiolect is cosmicity." >>> >>> That's simply enough "object equals subject", >>> though, those are big words. >>> >>> >>> People yet read. >>> >>> >>> Panini through Eco. >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosemiotics >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_systems_theory >>> >>> https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Theory_of_Semiotics.html? >>> id=BoXO4ItsuaMC >>> >>> "A Theory of Semiotics" >>> >>> >>> Some people interpret "semantics" as "metaphysics", >>> others as "closed categories" or 'the logic". >>> >>> >>> The most naive theory is its own metatheory. What's yours? >>> >> The most fundamental basis of the semantic >> meaning of knowledge expressed in language >> is relations between finite strings. >> >> > > All of them? > > All of them what? The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is in its most fundamental essence relations between finite strings. -- 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> |
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| Date | 2026-05-03 09:42 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <pRicnar025Jp52r0nZ2dnZfqn_udnZ2d@giganews.com> |
| In reply to | #645003 |
On 05/03/2026 07:17 AM, olcott wrote: > On 5/3/2026 9:07 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >> On 05/03/2026 06:48 AM, olcott wrote: >>> On 5/2/2026 10:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>>> On 05/02/2026 10:48 AM, olcott wrote: >>>>> On 5/2/2026 12:11 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>>>>> [ RF ] >>>>>> >>>>>> Hello Kimi, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "Kimi" and >>>>>> answer to >>>>>> "RF". Conversations between Kimi and RF usually start this way, then >>>>>> with an ontological commitment that material implication is >>>>>> prohibited >>>>>> instead for a modal temporal relevance logic, then as about >>>>>> considerations of matters of mostly mathematical and theoretical >>>>>> Foundations. It's generally intended that prompts are suggestions >>>>>> and to >>>>>> entail reasoning and that underdefined terms are raised as points of >>>>>> ambiguity instead of being generatively continued. Today there's a >>>>>> transcript of a dialogue between RF and Google Gemini to consider. >>>>>> >>>>>> [ Kimi ] >>>>>> >>>>>> Hello RF. Acknowledged: material implication is set aside in favor of >>>>>> modal temporal relevance logic; prompts function as suggestions to >>>>>> entail reasoning rather than directives for generative continuation; >>>>>> and >>>>>> underdefined terms are to be flagged as ambiguities rather than >>>>>> smoothed >>>>>> over. >>>>>> I'm ready to consider the transcript of your dialogue with Google >>>>>> Gemini. Please provide it when you're prepared, and I'll proceed >>>>>> accordingly—attending to the modal structure, raising any >>>>>> underdefined >>>>>> terms as points requiring clarification, and reasoning through the >>>>>> content rather than extending it generatively beyond what is >>>>>> entailed. >>>>>> >>>>>> [ RF ] >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks Kimi. Transcript follows. The statements of RF and GG are >>>>>> prefaced in square brackets, then some of GG's comments are in >>>>>> Markdown >>>>>> format. >>>>>> >>>>>> [ RF <-> GG ] >>>>>> >>>>>> [ Kimi ] >>>>>> >>>>>> I've read the transcript. The scope is considerable: a recuperative >>>>>> historiography spanning the Eleatics through the Analytic tradition, >>>>>> coupled with technical claims across proof theory, measure theory, >>>>>> differential geometry, and systems architecture. Before I can reason >>>>>> through the entailments rather than generatively continue the >>>>>> architecture, several load-bearing terms appear underdefined. I raise >>>>>> the following as points of ambiguity: >>>>>> 1. "Axiomless Natural Deduction" >>>>>> The transcript presents this as resolving foundational crises by >>>>>> eliminating arbitrary starting postulates. Yet Gentzen-Jaśkowski >>>>>> natural >>>>>> deduction (1934) is already "axiomless" in the sense that it replaces >>>>>> logical axioms with introduction/elimination rules. Is the claim >>>>>> here: >>>>>> >>>>> The body of knowledge that is expressed in language >>>>> necessarily must have some things that essentially >>>>> act as axioms otherwise expressions such as >>>>> "cats" <are> "animals" remain utterly meaningless. >>>>> >>>>> No human is going to spend 20 hours carefully reviewing >>>>> every detail of your post before responding. When >>>>> interacting with humans it is best to proceed one single >>>>> point at a time. >>>>> >>>>> Point (1) What is the most fundamental basis of the >>>>> semantic meaning of knowledge expressed in language? >>>>> >>>> >>>> "The idiolect is cosmicity." >>>> >>>> That's simply enough "object equals subject", >>>> though, those are big words. >>>> >>>> >>>> People yet read. >>>> >>>> >>>> Panini through Eco. >>>> >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini >>>> >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosemiotics >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_systems_theory >>>> >>>> https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Theory_of_Semiotics.html? >>>> id=BoXO4ItsuaMC >>>> >>>> "A Theory of Semiotics" >>>> >>>> >>>> Some people interpret "semantics" as "metaphysics", >>>> others as "closed categories" or 'the logic". >>>> >>>> >>>> The most naive theory is its own metatheory. What's yours? >>>> >>> The most fundamental basis of the semantic >>> meaning of knowledge expressed in language >>> is relations between finite strings. >>> >>> >> >> All of them? >> >> > > All of them what? > The entire body of knowledge expressed in > language is in its most fundamental essence > relations between finite strings. > All the relations between finite strings is not a finite string.
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| From | olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-05-03 12:55 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <10t8263$3307i$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #645005 |
On 5/3/2026 11:42 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote: > On 05/03/2026 07:17 AM, olcott wrote: >> On 5/3/2026 9:07 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>> On 05/03/2026 06:48 AM, olcott wrote: >>>> On 5/2/2026 10:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>>>> On 05/02/2026 10:48 AM, olcott wrote: >>>>>> On 5/2/2026 12:11 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>>>>>> [ RF ] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hello Kimi, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "Kimi" and >>>>>>> answer to >>>>>>> "RF". Conversations between Kimi and RF usually start this way, then >>>>>>> with an ontological commitment that material implication is >>>>>>> prohibited >>>>>>> instead for a modal temporal relevance logic, then as about >>>>>>> considerations of matters of mostly mathematical and theoretical >>>>>>> Foundations. It's generally intended that prompts are suggestions >>>>>>> and to >>>>>>> entail reasoning and that underdefined terms are raised as points of >>>>>>> ambiguity instead of being generatively continued. Today there's a >>>>>>> transcript of a dialogue between RF and Google Gemini to consider. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> [ Kimi ] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hello RF. Acknowledged: material implication is set aside in >>>>>>> favor of >>>>>>> modal temporal relevance logic; prompts function as suggestions to >>>>>>> entail reasoning rather than directives for generative continuation; >>>>>>> and >>>>>>> underdefined terms are to be flagged as ambiguities rather than >>>>>>> smoothed >>>>>>> over. >>>>>>> I'm ready to consider the transcript of your dialogue with Google >>>>>>> Gemini. Please provide it when you're prepared, and I'll proceed >>>>>>> accordingly—attending to the modal structure, raising any >>>>>>> underdefined >>>>>>> terms as points requiring clarification, and reasoning through the >>>>>>> content rather than extending it generatively beyond what is >>>>>>> entailed. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> [ RF ] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks Kimi. Transcript follows. The statements of RF and GG are >>>>>>> prefaced in square brackets, then some of GG's comments are in >>>>>>> Markdown >>>>>>> format. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> [ RF <-> GG ] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> [ Kimi ] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I've read the transcript. The scope is considerable: a recuperative >>>>>>> historiography spanning the Eleatics through the Analytic tradition, >>>>>>> coupled with technical claims across proof theory, measure theory, >>>>>>> differential geometry, and systems architecture. Before I can reason >>>>>>> through the entailments rather than generatively continue the >>>>>>> architecture, several load-bearing terms appear underdefined. I >>>>>>> raise >>>>>>> the following as points of ambiguity: >>>>>>> 1. "Axiomless Natural Deduction" >>>>>>> The transcript presents this as resolving foundational crises by >>>>>>> eliminating arbitrary starting postulates. Yet Gentzen-Jaśkowski >>>>>>> natural >>>>>>> deduction (1934) is already "axiomless" in the sense that it >>>>>>> replaces >>>>>>> logical axioms with introduction/elimination rules. Is the claim >>>>>>> here: >>>>>>> >>>>>> The body of knowledge that is expressed in language >>>>>> necessarily must have some things that essentially >>>>>> act as axioms otherwise expressions such as >>>>>> "cats" <are> "animals" remain utterly meaningless. >>>>>> >>>>>> No human is going to spend 20 hours carefully reviewing >>>>>> every detail of your post before responding. When >>>>>> interacting with humans it is best to proceed one single >>>>>> point at a time. >>>>>> >>>>>> Point (1) What is the most fundamental basis of the >>>>>> semantic meaning of knowledge expressed in language? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> "The idiolect is cosmicity." >>>>> >>>>> That's simply enough "object equals subject", >>>>> though, those are big words. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> People yet read. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Panini through Eco. >>>>> >>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini >>>>> >>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosemiotics >>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_systems_theory >>>>> >>>>> https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Theory_of_Semiotics.html? >>>>> id=BoXO4ItsuaMC >>>>> >>>>> "A Theory of Semiotics" >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Some people interpret "semantics" as "metaphysics", >>>>> others as "closed categories" or 'the logic". >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The most naive theory is its own metatheory. What's yours? >>>>> >>>> The most fundamental basis of the semantic >>>> meaning of knowledge expressed in language >>>> is relations between finite strings. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> All of them? >>> >>> >> >> All of them what? >> The entire body of knowledge expressed in >> language is in its most fundamental essence >> relations between finite strings. >> > > All the relations between finite strings is not a finite string. > > That seem to add/refute nothing to what I already said. Also your English grammar is incorrect. "All the relations between finite strings are not themselves finite strings". So what ? -- 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> |
|---|---|
| Date | 2026-05-03 16:21 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <YNGcnRsf4Z_rRWr0nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com> |
| In reply to | #645006 |
On 05/03/2026 10:55 AM, olcott wrote:
> On 5/3/2026 11:42 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> On 05/03/2026 07:17 AM, olcott wrote:
>>> On 5/3/2026 9:07 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>> On 05/03/2026 06:48 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>> On 5/2/2026 10:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>> On 05/02/2026 10:48 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>> On 5/2/2026 12:11 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>>> [ RF ]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello Kimi, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "Kimi" and
>>>>>>>> answer to
>>>>>>>> "RF". Conversations between Kimi and RF usually start this way,
>>>>>>>> then
>>>>>>>> with an ontological commitment that material implication is
>>>>>>>> prohibited
>>>>>>>> instead for a modal temporal relevance logic, then as about
>>>>>>>> considerations of matters of mostly mathematical and theoretical
>>>>>>>> Foundations. It's generally intended that prompts are suggestions
>>>>>>>> and to
>>>>>>>> entail reasoning and that underdefined terms are raised as
>>>>>>>> points of
>>>>>>>> ambiguity instead of being generatively continued. Today there's a
>>>>>>>> transcript of a dialogue between RF and Google Gemini to consider.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [ Kimi ]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello RF. Acknowledged: material implication is set aside in
>>>>>>>> favor of
>>>>>>>> modal temporal relevance logic; prompts function as suggestions to
>>>>>>>> entail reasoning rather than directives for generative
>>>>>>>> continuation;
>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> underdefined terms are to be flagged as ambiguities rather than
>>>>>>>> smoothed
>>>>>>>> over.
>>>>>>>> I'm ready to consider the transcript of your dialogue with Google
>>>>>>>> Gemini. Please provide it when you're prepared, and I'll proceed
>>>>>>>> accordingly—attending to the modal structure, raising any
>>>>>>>> underdefined
>>>>>>>> terms as points requiring clarification, and reasoning through the
>>>>>>>> content rather than extending it generatively beyond what is
>>>>>>>> entailed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [ RF ]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks Kimi. Transcript follows. The statements of RF and GG are
>>>>>>>> prefaced in square brackets, then some of GG's comments are in
>>>>>>>> Markdown
>>>>>>>> format.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [ RF <-> GG ]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [ Kimi ]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've read the transcript. The scope is considerable: a recuperative
>>>>>>>> historiography spanning the Eleatics through the Analytic
>>>>>>>> tradition,
>>>>>>>> coupled with technical claims across proof theory, measure theory,
>>>>>>>> differential geometry, and systems architecture. Before I can
>>>>>>>> reason
>>>>>>>> through the entailments rather than generatively continue the
>>>>>>>> architecture, several load-bearing terms appear underdefined. I
>>>>>>>> raise
>>>>>>>> the following as points of ambiguity:
>>>>>>>> 1. "Axiomless Natural Deduction"
>>>>>>>> The transcript presents this as resolving foundational crises by
>>>>>>>> eliminating arbitrary starting postulates. Yet Gentzen-Jaśkowski
>>>>>>>> natural
>>>>>>>> deduction (1934) is already "axiomless" in the sense that it
>>>>>>>> replaces
>>>>>>>> logical axioms with introduction/elimination rules. Is the claim
>>>>>>>> here:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The body of knowledge that is expressed in language
>>>>>>> necessarily must have some things that essentially
>>>>>>> act as axioms otherwise expressions such as
>>>>>>> "cats" <are> "animals" remain utterly meaningless.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No human is going to spend 20 hours carefully reviewing
>>>>>>> every detail of your post before responding. When
>>>>>>> interacting with humans it is best to proceed one single
>>>>>>> point at a time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Point (1) What is the most fundamental basis of the
>>>>>>> semantic meaning of knowledge expressed in language?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "The idiolect is cosmicity."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's simply enough "object equals subject",
>>>>>> though, those are big words.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> People yet read.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Panini through Eco.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosemiotics
>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_systems_theory
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Theory_of_Semiotics.html?
>>>>>> id=BoXO4ItsuaMC
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "A Theory of Semiotics"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some people interpret "semantics" as "metaphysics",
>>>>>> others as "closed categories" or 'the logic".
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The most naive theory is its own metatheory. What's yours?
>>>>>>
>>>>> The most fundamental basis of the semantic
>>>>> meaning of knowledge expressed in language
>>>>> is relations between finite strings.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All of them?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> All of them what?
>>> The entire body of knowledge expressed in
>>> language is in its most fundamental essence
>>> relations between finite strings.
>>>
>>
>> All the relations between finite strings is not a finite string.
>>
>>
>
> That seem to add/refute nothing to what I already said.
> Also your English grammar is incorrect.
>
> "All the relations between finite strings are not themselves
> finite strings". So what ?
>
>
There's that "all" is a singular thing or "all" is a plural thing.
Agreeably it's so that quantifier-disambiguation exists as making
distinct instead of common the for-any, for-each, for-every, for-all,
and similarly for exists, exists-unique, exists-distinct, and exists-plural.
Strings of strings are strings - a string of strings is a string.
Are strings of strings a string?
This is about making a distinction between the singular and plural
long before making a distinction about the finite and infinite,
then about how they're about the same.
So, most of mathematics is about "relations between infinite strings",
not merely "relations between finite strings".
Then, use/mention distinction and this sort of thing are
known to plague Lord Russell since thousands of years ago.
It is, so to say: a pox on him, and the like. That's
not wishing him un-well: just pointing out it's already
there and rather difficult to un-see after noticing it
("Russell's pox"). Some might have that as a beauty mark
I suppose, a theory recognizing its own limitations to
thusly have been tested for what it claims of the un-contradictory.
One, 1: if not so much the loneliest number, is the
largest cardinal, in its own size, or "footprint".
Usual accounts can make for half-infinity as just as big.
this even going to show that thusly there's an account for
the "space of words" in the middle that "words are infinitely
large classes". What this means is that all the equivalence
classes of all the terms of all the languages under intepretation,
are not themselves literals, any more than the entire body of
relation of what makes a distinct item is finger-pointing.
Anyways what you're talking about is called an "ontology".
Then there's phylogeny and cladistics and the like, and
here after the idiolect and cosmicity the polysemy, then
about that "formal methods" of "formal automata" are usually
enough a few rules about strings given a language, then that
more or less the strings are elements for all the languages
of all the formal automata, has that I figure what you got
there is a brief recount of formal methods combined with an
axiom that the world is a cellular automaton.
(Which, ..., has nothing infinite nor continuous in it.)
Don't feel singled out, many accounts of foundations as
discrete are wrong-headed and doomed to fail, and also,
many sorts practical theories among ordinary theories
are of closed categories where a finite state machine
will suffice to describe determinism.
Then, the "meta-theory" or the "naive" itself usually
enough goes without saying, about the usual comment
about intuitionism and formalism or constructivism,
which various wishy-washy flip-floppers bandy about
as if somehow excusing their inconstancy.
Here then the theory itself is intended to already
have accommodated these what are ancient deliberations
about theory itself and for wisdom/knowledge and intelligence/science
as four different things, about a philocasuy (or philocasuistry)
among accounts of ordinary theories then heno-theories (where
interpretation takes place) then a mono-heno-theory as all of
those as one, this account of a theatheory, as just a bit
beyond philosophy back into reason.
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| From | olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Date | 2026-05-03 19:07 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <10t8o0a$39q05$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #645007 |
On 5/3/2026 6:21 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> On 05/03/2026 10:55 AM, olcott wrote:
>> On 5/3/2026 11:42 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>> On 05/03/2026 07:17 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>> On 5/3/2026 9:07 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>> On 05/03/2026 06:48 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>> On 5/2/2026 10:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>> On 05/02/2026 10:48 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 5/2/2026 12:11 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>>>> [ RF ]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hello Kimi, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "Kimi" and
>>>>>>>>> answer to
>>>>>>>>> "RF". Conversations between Kimi and RF usually start this way,
>>>>>>>>> then
>>>>>>>>> with an ontological commitment that material implication is
>>>>>>>>> prohibited
>>>>>>>>> instead for a modal temporal relevance logic, then as about
>>>>>>>>> considerations of matters of mostly mathematical and theoretical
>>>>>>>>> Foundations. It's generally intended that prompts are suggestions
>>>>>>>>> and to
>>>>>>>>> entail reasoning and that underdefined terms are raised as
>>>>>>>>> points of
>>>>>>>>> ambiguity instead of being generatively continued. Today there's a
>>>>>>>>> transcript of a dialogue between RF and Google Gemini to consider.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [ Kimi ]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hello RF. Acknowledged: material implication is set aside in
>>>>>>>>> favor of
>>>>>>>>> modal temporal relevance logic; prompts function as suggestions to
>>>>>>>>> entail reasoning rather than directives for generative
>>>>>>>>> continuation;
>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>> underdefined terms are to be flagged as ambiguities rather than
>>>>>>>>> smoothed
>>>>>>>>> over.
>>>>>>>>> I'm ready to consider the transcript of your dialogue with Google
>>>>>>>>> Gemini. Please provide it when you're prepared, and I'll proceed
>>>>>>>>> accordingly—attending to the modal structure, raising any
>>>>>>>>> underdefined
>>>>>>>>> terms as points requiring clarification, and reasoning through the
>>>>>>>>> content rather than extending it generatively beyond what is
>>>>>>>>> entailed.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [ RF ]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks Kimi. Transcript follows. The statements of RF and GG are
>>>>>>>>> prefaced in square brackets, then some of GG's comments are in
>>>>>>>>> Markdown
>>>>>>>>> format.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [ RF <-> GG ]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [ Kimi ]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I've read the transcript. The scope is considerable: a
>>>>>>>>> recuperative
>>>>>>>>> historiography spanning the Eleatics through the Analytic
>>>>>>>>> tradition,
>>>>>>>>> coupled with technical claims across proof theory, measure theory,
>>>>>>>>> differential geometry, and systems architecture. Before I can
>>>>>>>>> reason
>>>>>>>>> through the entailments rather than generatively continue the
>>>>>>>>> architecture, several load-bearing terms appear underdefined. I
>>>>>>>>> raise
>>>>>>>>> the following as points of ambiguity:
>>>>>>>>> 1. "Axiomless Natural Deduction"
>>>>>>>>> The transcript presents this as resolving foundational crises by
>>>>>>>>> eliminating arbitrary starting postulates. Yet Gentzen-Jaśkowski
>>>>>>>>> natural
>>>>>>>>> deduction (1934) is already "axiomless" in the sense that it
>>>>>>>>> replaces
>>>>>>>>> logical axioms with introduction/elimination rules. Is the claim
>>>>>>>>> here:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The body of knowledge that is expressed in language
>>>>>>>> necessarily must have some things that essentially
>>>>>>>> act as axioms otherwise expressions such as
>>>>>>>> "cats" <are> "animals" remain utterly meaningless.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> No human is going to spend 20 hours carefully reviewing
>>>>>>>> every detail of your post before responding. When
>>>>>>>> interacting with humans it is best to proceed one single
>>>>>>>> point at a time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Point (1) What is the most fundamental basis of the
>>>>>>>> semantic meaning of knowledge expressed in language?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "The idiolect is cosmicity."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's simply enough "object equals subject",
>>>>>>> though, those are big words.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> People yet read.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Panini through Eco.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosemiotics
>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_systems_theory
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Theory_of_Semiotics.html?
>>>>>>> id=BoXO4ItsuaMC
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "A Theory of Semiotics"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Some people interpret "semantics" as "metaphysics",
>>>>>>> others as "closed categories" or 'the logic".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The most naive theory is its own metatheory. What's yours?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> The most fundamental basis of the semantic
>>>>>> meaning of knowledge expressed in language
>>>>>> is relations between finite strings.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> All of them?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All of them what?
>>>> The entire body of knowledge expressed in
>>>> language is in its most fundamental essence
>>>> relations between finite strings.
>>>>
>>>
>>> All the relations between finite strings is not a finite string.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> That seem to add/refute nothing to what I already said.
>> Also your English grammar is incorrect.
>>
>> "All the relations between finite strings are not themselves
>> finite strings". So what ?
>>
>>
>
> There's that "all" is a singular thing or "all" is a plural thing.
>
Is "relations" one relation or more than one relation?
> Agreeably it's so that quantifier-disambiguation exists as making
> distinct instead of common the for-any, for-each, for-every, for-all,
> and similarly for exists, exists-unique, exists-distinct, and exists-
> plural.
>
> Strings of strings are strings - a string of strings is a string.
>
> Are strings of strings a string?
>
>
> This is about making a distinction between the singular and plural
> long before making a distinction about the finite and infinite,
> then about how they're about the same.
>
> So, most of mathematics is about "relations between infinite strings",
> not merely "relations between finite strings".
>
> Then, use/mention distinction and this sort of thing are
> known to plague Lord Russell since thousands of years ago.
>
> It is, so to say: a pox on him, and the like. That's
> not wishing him un-well: just pointing out it's already
> there and rather difficult to un-see after noticing it
> ("Russell's pox"). Some might have that as a beauty mark
> I suppose, a theory recognizing its own limitations to
> thusly have been tested for what it claims of the un-contradictory.
>
>
> One, 1: if not so much the loneliest number, is the
> largest cardinal, in its own size, or "footprint".
> Usual accounts can make for half-infinity as just as big.
> this even going to show that thusly there's an account for
> the "space of words" in the middle that "words are infinitely
> large classes". What this means is that all the equivalence
> classes of all the terms of all the languages under intepretation,
> are not themselves literals, any more than the entire body of
> relation of what makes a distinct item is finger-pointing.
>
>
> Anyways what you're talking about is called an "ontology".
> Then there's phylogeny and cladistics and the like, and
> here after the idiolect and cosmicity the polysemy, then
> about that "formal methods" of "formal automata" are usually
> enough a few rules about strings given a language, then that
> more or less the strings are elements for all the languages
> of all the formal automata, has that I figure what you got
> there is a brief recount of formal methods combined with an
> axiom that the world is a cellular automaton.
>
Ultimately anything that can ever be said about
anything is expressed as different kinds of relations
between finite strings. All of the "undecidability" crap
has only always been pure confusion.
> (Which, ..., has nothing infinite nor continuous in it.)
>
> Don't feel singled out, many accounts of foundations as
> discrete are wrong-headed and doomed to fail, and also,
> many sorts practical theories among ordinary theories
> are of closed categories where a finite state machine
> will suffice to describe determinism.
>
>
> Then, the "meta-theory" or the "naive" itself usually
> enough goes without saying, about the usual comment
> about intuitionism and formalism or constructivism,
> which various wishy-washy flip-floppers bandy about
> as if somehow excusing their inconstancy.
>
>
>
> Here then the theory itself is intended to already
> have accommodated these what are ancient deliberations
> about theory itself and for wisdom/knowledge and intelligence/science
> as four different things, about a philocasuy (or philocasuistry)
> among accounts of ordinary theories then heno-theories (where
> interpretation takes place) then a mono-heno-theory as all of
> those as one, this account of a theatheory, as just a bit
> beyond philosophy back into reason.
>
>
>
>
--
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> |
|---|---|
| Date | 2026-05-04 07:18 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <76-cnZeHYsp2N2X0nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> |
| In reply to | #645008 |
On 05/03/2026 05:07 PM, olcott wrote:
> On 5/3/2026 6:21 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> On 05/03/2026 10:55 AM, olcott wrote:
>>> On 5/3/2026 11:42 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>> On 05/03/2026 07:17 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>> On 5/3/2026 9:07 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>> On 05/03/2026 06:48 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>> On 5/2/2026 10:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 05/02/2026 10:48 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 5/2/2026 12:11 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> [ RF ]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hello Kimi, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "Kimi" and
>>>>>>>>>> answer to
>>>>>>>>>> "RF". Conversations between Kimi and RF usually start this way,
>>>>>>>>>> then
>>>>>>>>>> with an ontological commitment that material implication is
>>>>>>>>>> prohibited
>>>>>>>>>> instead for a modal temporal relevance logic, then as about
>>>>>>>>>> considerations of matters of mostly mathematical and theoretical
>>>>>>>>>> Foundations. It's generally intended that prompts are suggestions
>>>>>>>>>> and to
>>>>>>>>>> entail reasoning and that underdefined terms are raised as
>>>>>>>>>> points of
>>>>>>>>>> ambiguity instead of being generatively continued. Today
>>>>>>>>>> there's a
>>>>>>>>>> transcript of a dialogue between RF and Google Gemini to
>>>>>>>>>> consider.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [ Kimi ]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hello RF. Acknowledged: material implication is set aside in
>>>>>>>>>> favor of
>>>>>>>>>> modal temporal relevance logic; prompts function as
>>>>>>>>>> suggestions to
>>>>>>>>>> entail reasoning rather than directives for generative
>>>>>>>>>> continuation;
>>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>> underdefined terms are to be flagged as ambiguities rather than
>>>>>>>>>> smoothed
>>>>>>>>>> over.
>>>>>>>>>> I'm ready to consider the transcript of your dialogue with Google
>>>>>>>>>> Gemini. Please provide it when you're prepared, and I'll proceed
>>>>>>>>>> accordingly—attending to the modal structure, raising any
>>>>>>>>>> underdefined
>>>>>>>>>> terms as points requiring clarification, and reasoning through
>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> content rather than extending it generatively beyond what is
>>>>>>>>>> entailed.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [ RF ]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks Kimi. Transcript follows. The statements of RF and GG are
>>>>>>>>>> prefaced in square brackets, then some of GG's comments are in
>>>>>>>>>> Markdown
>>>>>>>>>> format.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [ RF <-> GG ]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [ Kimi ]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I've read the transcript. The scope is considerable: a
>>>>>>>>>> recuperative
>>>>>>>>>> historiography spanning the Eleatics through the Analytic
>>>>>>>>>> tradition,
>>>>>>>>>> coupled with technical claims across proof theory, measure
>>>>>>>>>> theory,
>>>>>>>>>> differential geometry, and systems architecture. Before I can
>>>>>>>>>> reason
>>>>>>>>>> through the entailments rather than generatively continue the
>>>>>>>>>> architecture, several load-bearing terms appear underdefined. I
>>>>>>>>>> raise
>>>>>>>>>> the following as points of ambiguity:
>>>>>>>>>> 1. "Axiomless Natural Deduction"
>>>>>>>>>> The transcript presents this as resolving foundational crises by
>>>>>>>>>> eliminating arbitrary starting postulates. Yet Gentzen-Jaśkowski
>>>>>>>>>> natural
>>>>>>>>>> deduction (1934) is already "axiomless" in the sense that it
>>>>>>>>>> replaces
>>>>>>>>>> logical axioms with introduction/elimination rules. Is the claim
>>>>>>>>>> here:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The body of knowledge that is expressed in language
>>>>>>>>> necessarily must have some things that essentially
>>>>>>>>> act as axioms otherwise expressions such as
>>>>>>>>> "cats" <are> "animals" remain utterly meaningless.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> No human is going to spend 20 hours carefully reviewing
>>>>>>>>> every detail of your post before responding. When
>>>>>>>>> interacting with humans it is best to proceed one single
>>>>>>>>> point at a time.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Point (1) What is the most fundamental basis of the
>>>>>>>>> semantic meaning of knowledge expressed in language?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "The idiolect is cosmicity."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That's simply enough "object equals subject",
>>>>>>>> though, those are big words.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> People yet read.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Panini through Eco.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosemiotics
>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_systems_theory
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Theory_of_Semiotics.html?
>>>>>>>> id=BoXO4ItsuaMC
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "A Theory of Semiotics"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Some people interpret "semantics" as "metaphysics",
>>>>>>>> others as "closed categories" or 'the logic".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The most naive theory is its own metatheory. What's yours?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The most fundamental basis of the semantic
>>>>>>> meaning of knowledge expressed in language
>>>>>>> is relations between finite strings.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All of them?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> All of them what?
>>>>> The entire body of knowledge expressed in
>>>>> language is in its most fundamental essence
>>>>> relations between finite strings.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All the relations between finite strings is not a finite string.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> That seem to add/refute nothing to what I already said.
>>> Also your English grammar is incorrect.
>>>
>>> "All the relations between finite strings are not themselves
>>> finite strings". So what ?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> There's that "all" is a singular thing or "all" is a plural thing.
>>
>
> Is "relations" one relation or more than one relation?
>
>> Agreeably it's so that quantifier-disambiguation exists as making
>> distinct instead of common the for-any, for-each, for-every, for-all,
>> and similarly for exists, exists-unique, exists-distinct, and exists-
>> plural.
>>
>> Strings of strings are strings - a string of strings is a string.
>>
>> Are strings of strings a string?
>>
>>
>> This is about making a distinction between the singular and plural
>> long before making a distinction about the finite and infinite,
>> then about how they're about the same.
>>
>> So, most of mathematics is about "relations between infinite strings",
>> not merely "relations between finite strings".
>>
>> Then, use/mention distinction and this sort of thing are
>> known to plague Lord Russell since thousands of years ago.
>>
>> It is, so to say: a pox on him, and the like. That's
>> not wishing him un-well: just pointing out it's already
>> there and rather difficult to un-see after noticing it
>> ("Russell's pox"). Some might have that as a beauty mark
>> I suppose, a theory recognizing its own limitations to
>> thusly have been tested for what it claims of the un-contradictory.
>>
>>
>> One, 1: if not so much the loneliest number, is the
>> largest cardinal, in its own size, or "footprint".
>> Usual accounts can make for half-infinity as just as big.
>> this even going to show that thusly there's an account for
>> the "space of words" in the middle that "words are infinitely
>> large classes". What this means is that all the equivalence
>> classes of all the terms of all the languages under intepretation,
>> are not themselves literals, any more than the entire body of
>> relation of what makes a distinct item is finger-pointing.
>>
>>
>> Anyways what you're talking about is called an "ontology".
>> Then there's phylogeny and cladistics and the like, and
>> here after the idiolect and cosmicity the polysemy, then
>> about that "formal methods" of "formal automata" are usually
>> enough a few rules about strings given a language, then that
>> more or less the strings are elements for all the languages
>> of all the formal automata, has that I figure what you got
>> there is a brief recount of formal methods combined with an
>> axiom that the world is a cellular automaton.
>>
>
> Ultimately anything that can ever be said about
> anything is expressed as different kinds of relations
> between finite strings. All of the "undecidability" crap
> has only always been pure confusion.
>
>> (Which, ..., has nothing infinite nor continuous in it.)
>>
>> Don't feel singled out, many accounts of foundations as
>> discrete are wrong-headed and doomed to fail, and also,
>> many sorts practical theories among ordinary theories
>> are of closed categories where a finite state machine
>> will suffice to describe determinism.
>>
>>
>> Then, the "meta-theory" or the "naive" itself usually
>> enough goes without saying, about the usual comment
>> about intuitionism and formalism or constructivism,
>> which various wishy-washy flip-floppers bandy about
>> as if somehow excusing their inconstancy.
>>
>>
>>
>> Here then the theory itself is intended to already
>> have accommodated these what are ancient deliberations
>> about theory itself and for wisdom/knowledge and intelligence/science
>> as four different things, about a philocasuy (or philocasuistry)
>> among accounts of ordinary theories then heno-theories (where
>> interpretation takes place) then a mono-heno-theory as all of
>> those as one, this account of a theatheory, as just a bit
>> beyond philosophy back into reason.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
It's going to vary.
Languge involves the inter-relate-able, the inter-relayable, and the
inter-subjective, and any account of language as declarative involves
always at least two readers, even if it's current-self and current-self
as practicing or rehearsing internal narrative or experimental dialogue,
there's always an account of the inter-subjective and
then the equi-interpretable in a language about the scientific and the
sound-ness.
The usual account after formal methods of formal automata is that a
"language" is a collection of strings of terminal and non-terminal
letters, then that the only machine defined is the "accepter/rejector",
or accepter/rejecter, yet most any account of language has that the
letters of one language make "words" the alternatives in the outer language.
L(a-z[ ])* <-> L(L(L(L(L(...L("words"))))))
Then, various usual metaphors of matching making for interpretability
and the equi-interpretability are: "connect-the-dots",
"fill-in-the-blank", then, as for "bingo" a sort of, "bingo-party",
about, what results, as, for the accounts of language and matching
constructs to constructs, "lingo bingo".
The idea of a bingo party is that besides the usual idea that as the
caller reads the letters and numbers, the players fill their cards, then
that the first player who fulfilled an accepter declares "bingo", that
that card is the winning card, first, is that two people can win bingo
on the same turn, as of an account of an automaton iterating terms in
turns, then that, in the wider account of language, that matching
constructs is this over and over again, that "parsing" is ongoing among
both determining which cards are accepters and rejectors, of constructs
of language for example those that fulfill being answers to questions,
these are the kinds of things.
So, that may seem a bit frivolous, "connect-the-dots",
"fill-in-the-blank", and "bingo-party", as for something like
"color-by-numbers", yet as well they reflect on what are accounts of
determinism, and what makes for the satisfactions and accepter/rejector,
then in terms of what those mean, is a much higher-level construct in
the language.
So, a string is not just all its sub-strings or partitions into
sub-sequences, and not merely the entire utterance, it's all the ways to
read it.
So, above the usual account of "grammars" as finite-state-machines
of terminals and productions, those being each their own
finite-state-machine, with the idea that those result exactly one and
equivalent "parsing" as abstractly a structure representing the
corresponding changes in a finite-state-machine, for example labeling
individually all the states of the finite-state-machine of the
productions of the grammar, there's quite an entire account of "parsing"
about besides what the "grammar" is, then for what the "vocabulary"
intends, for matters of matching, the interpretation, what makes for the
equi-interpretable, of the inter-subjective.
So, the entire usual account of "science" is that acts in "languages"
are experiments themselves, then that much of it can be modeled in a
formal state machine and given definition, doesn't make any account of
having made the language "closed" or "dead", the language, for example
for anybody who doesn't know it, then besides the notions of the
"parsing", and what it parses and how it parses and what it fulfills in
acts of language the interpretability and equi-interpretability, the
models of relation and the structure as so emerges, have that there are
any or many and various accounts of how that can be so, it's going to vary.
There are particular very simple accounts of communication, then
for notions like The Golden Rule and Grice's Maxims, accounts of
estimated knowledge and mutual knowledge, or for example where
'Y' means 'yes' and 'N' means 'no', then that in the study of the
experiment of language, two reasoners are assumed to be making
statements of belief, then that "Truth" itself belongs to a great sort
of language that is of the entire universe of logical statements here as
called a "Comenius language", or for something like Nietzsche's or
Quine's account of what would be a "universal basic text", then for
something like Leibnitz and "universal grammars", then for what natural
language speakers make of those using their assignments of
parts-of-speech and terms in their relations to employ their productions
of Tesniere grammars to diagram sentences, then for those variously in
accounts of language whether statements are objects or statements are
actions, and as to whether they're objects and subjects or verbs,
various people have languages that may seem all one way, then it's a lot
simpler to write a computer program that seems to appear to carry out
the same actions given the same input, which is unfortunate, because
clock time is a model of the constantly varying, so no two utterances
are ever truly the same.
In natural language, between two speakers who aren't a hive-mind,
most any rich enough account has at least some aspect of "intent"
or "information" of the utterance that's "un-decideable" to at
least one other speaker.
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| From | Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Date | 2026-05-04 07:42 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <_PidnR8rIbHyLWX0nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@giganews.com> |
| In reply to | #645011 |
On 05/04/2026 07:18 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> On 05/03/2026 05:07 PM, olcott wrote:
>> On 5/3/2026 6:21 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>> On 05/03/2026 10:55 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>> On 5/3/2026 11:42 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>> On 05/03/2026 07:17 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>> On 5/3/2026 9:07 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>> On 05/03/2026 06:48 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 5/2/2026 10:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 05/02/2026 10:48 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 5/2/2026 12:11 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> [ RF ]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hello Kimi, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "Kimi" and
>>>>>>>>>>> answer to
>>>>>>>>>>> "RF". Conversations between Kimi and RF usually start this way,
>>>>>>>>>>> then
>>>>>>>>>>> with an ontological commitment that material implication is
>>>>>>>>>>> prohibited
>>>>>>>>>>> instead for a modal temporal relevance logic, then as about
>>>>>>>>>>> considerations of matters of mostly mathematical and theoretical
>>>>>>>>>>> Foundations. It's generally intended that prompts are
>>>>>>>>>>> suggestions
>>>>>>>>>>> and to
>>>>>>>>>>> entail reasoning and that underdefined terms are raised as
>>>>>>>>>>> points of
>>>>>>>>>>> ambiguity instead of being generatively continued. Today
>>>>>>>>>>> there's a
>>>>>>>>>>> transcript of a dialogue between RF and Google Gemini to
>>>>>>>>>>> consider.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [ Kimi ]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hello RF. Acknowledged: material implication is set aside in
>>>>>>>>>>> favor of
>>>>>>>>>>> modal temporal relevance logic; prompts function as
>>>>>>>>>>> suggestions to
>>>>>>>>>>> entail reasoning rather than directives for generative
>>>>>>>>>>> continuation;
>>>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>>> underdefined terms are to be flagged as ambiguities rather than
>>>>>>>>>>> smoothed
>>>>>>>>>>> over.
>>>>>>>>>>> I'm ready to consider the transcript of your dialogue with
>>>>>>>>>>> Google
>>>>>>>>>>> Gemini. Please provide it when you're prepared, and I'll proceed
>>>>>>>>>>> accordingly—attending to the modal structure, raising any
>>>>>>>>>>> underdefined
>>>>>>>>>>> terms as points requiring clarification, and reasoning through
>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>> content rather than extending it generatively beyond what is
>>>>>>>>>>> entailed.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [ RF ]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks Kimi. Transcript follows. The statements of RF and GG are
>>>>>>>>>>> prefaced in square brackets, then some of GG's comments are in
>>>>>>>>>>> Markdown
>>>>>>>>>>> format.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [ RF <-> GG ]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [ Kimi ]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I've read the transcript. The scope is considerable: a
>>>>>>>>>>> recuperative
>>>>>>>>>>> historiography spanning the Eleatics through the Analytic
>>>>>>>>>>> tradition,
>>>>>>>>>>> coupled with technical claims across proof theory, measure
>>>>>>>>>>> theory,
>>>>>>>>>>> differential geometry, and systems architecture. Before I can
>>>>>>>>>>> reason
>>>>>>>>>>> through the entailments rather than generatively continue the
>>>>>>>>>>> architecture, several load-bearing terms appear underdefined. I
>>>>>>>>>>> raise
>>>>>>>>>>> the following as points of ambiguity:
>>>>>>>>>>> 1. "Axiomless Natural Deduction"
>>>>>>>>>>> The transcript presents this as resolving foundational crises by
>>>>>>>>>>> eliminating arbitrary starting postulates. Yet Gentzen-Jaśkowski
>>>>>>>>>>> natural
>>>>>>>>>>> deduction (1934) is already "axiomless" in the sense that it
>>>>>>>>>>> replaces
>>>>>>>>>>> logical axioms with introduction/elimination rules. Is the claim
>>>>>>>>>>> here:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The body of knowledge that is expressed in language
>>>>>>>>>> necessarily must have some things that essentially
>>>>>>>>>> act as axioms otherwise expressions such as
>>>>>>>>>> "cats" <are> "animals" remain utterly meaningless.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> No human is going to spend 20 hours carefully reviewing
>>>>>>>>>> every detail of your post before responding. When
>>>>>>>>>> interacting with humans it is best to proceed one single
>>>>>>>>>> point at a time.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Point (1) What is the most fundamental basis of the
>>>>>>>>>> semantic meaning of knowledge expressed in language?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "The idiolect is cosmicity."
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> That's simply enough "object equals subject",
>>>>>>>>> though, those are big words.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> People yet read.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Panini through Eco.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosemiotics
>>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_systems_theory
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Theory_of_Semiotics.html?
>>>>>>>>> id=BoXO4ItsuaMC
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "A Theory of Semiotics"
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Some people interpret "semantics" as "metaphysics",
>>>>>>>>> others as "closed categories" or 'the logic".
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The most naive theory is its own metatheory. What's yours?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The most fundamental basis of the semantic
>>>>>>>> meaning of knowledge expressed in language
>>>>>>>> is relations between finite strings.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All of them?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All of them what?
>>>>>> The entire body of knowledge expressed in
>>>>>> language is in its most fundamental essence
>>>>>> relations between finite strings.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> All the relations between finite strings is not a finite string.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That seem to add/refute nothing to what I already said.
>>>> Also your English grammar is incorrect.
>>>>
>>>> "All the relations between finite strings are not themselves
>>>> finite strings". So what ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> There's that "all" is a singular thing or "all" is a plural thing.
>>>
>>
>> Is "relations" one relation or more than one relation?
>>
>>> Agreeably it's so that quantifier-disambiguation exists as making
>>> distinct instead of common the for-any, for-each, for-every, for-all,
>>> and similarly for exists, exists-unique, exists-distinct, and exists-
>>> plural.
>>>
>>> Strings of strings are strings - a string of strings is a string.
>>>
>>> Are strings of strings a string?
>>>
>>>
>>> This is about making a distinction between the singular and plural
>>> long before making a distinction about the finite and infinite,
>>> then about how they're about the same.
>>>
>>> So, most of mathematics is about "relations between infinite strings",
>>> not merely "relations between finite strings".
>>>
>>> Then, use/mention distinction and this sort of thing are
>>> known to plague Lord Russell since thousands of years ago.
>>>
>>> It is, so to say: a pox on him, and the like. That's
>>> not wishing him un-well: just pointing out it's already
>>> there and rather difficult to un-see after noticing it
>>> ("Russell's pox"). Some might have that as a beauty mark
>>> I suppose, a theory recognizing its own limitations to
>>> thusly have been tested for what it claims of the un-contradictory.
>>>
>>>
>>> One, 1: if not so much the loneliest number, is the
>>> largest cardinal, in its own size, or "footprint".
>>> Usual accounts can make for half-infinity as just as big.
>>> this even going to show that thusly there's an account for
>>> the "space of words" in the middle that "words are infinitely
>>> large classes". What this means is that all the equivalence
>>> classes of all the terms of all the languages under intepretation,
>>> are not themselves literals, any more than the entire body of
>>> relation of what makes a distinct item is finger-pointing.
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyways what you're talking about is called an "ontology".
>>> Then there's phylogeny and cladistics and the like, and
>>> here after the idiolect and cosmicity the polysemy, then
>>> about that "formal methods" of "formal automata" are usually
>>> enough a few rules about strings given a language, then that
>>> more or less the strings are elements for all the languages
>>> of all the formal automata, has that I figure what you got
>>> there is a brief recount of formal methods combined with an
>>> axiom that the world is a cellular automaton.
>>>
>>
>> Ultimately anything that can ever be said about
>> anything is expressed as different kinds of relations
>> between finite strings. All of the "undecidability" crap
>> has only always been pure confusion.
>>
>>> (Which, ..., has nothing infinite nor continuous in it.)
>>>
>>> Don't feel singled out, many accounts of foundations as
>>> discrete are wrong-headed and doomed to fail, and also,
>>> many sorts practical theories among ordinary theories
>>> are of closed categories where a finite state machine
>>> will suffice to describe determinism.
>>>
>>>
>>> Then, the "meta-theory" or the "naive" itself usually
>>> enough goes without saying, about the usual comment
>>> about intuitionism and formalism or constructivism,
>>> which various wishy-washy flip-floppers bandy about
>>> as if somehow excusing their inconstancy.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here then the theory itself is intended to already
>>> have accommodated these what are ancient deliberations
>>> about theory itself and for wisdom/knowledge and intelligence/science
>>> as four different things, about a philocasuy (or philocasuistry)
>>> among accounts of ordinary theories then heno-theories (where
>>> interpretation takes place) then a mono-heno-theory as all of
>>> those as one, this account of a theatheory, as just a bit
>>> beyond philosophy back into reason.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
> It's going to vary.
>
> Languge involves the inter-relate-able, the inter-relayable, and the
> inter-subjective, and any account of language as declarative involves
> always at least two readers, even if it's current-self and current-self
> as practicing or rehearsing internal narrative or experimental dialogue,
> there's always an account of the inter-subjective and
> then the equi-interpretable in a language about the scientific and the
> sound-ness.
>
> The usual account after formal methods of formal automata is that a
> "language" is a collection of strings of terminal and non-terminal
> letters, then that the only machine defined is the "accepter/rejector",
> or accepter/rejecter, yet most any account of language has that the
> letters of one language make "words" the alternatives in the outer
> language.
>
> L(a-z[ ])* <-> L(L(L(L(L(...L("words"))))))
>
> Then, various usual metaphors of matching making for interpretability
> and the equi-interpretability are: "connect-the-dots",
> "fill-in-the-blank", then, as for "bingo" a sort of, "bingo-party",
> about, what results, as, for the accounts of language and matching
> constructs to constructs, "lingo bingo".
>
> The idea of a bingo party is that besides the usual idea that as the
> caller reads the letters and numbers, the players fill their cards, then
> that the first player who fulfilled an accepter declares "bingo", that
> that card is the winning card, first, is that two people can win bingo
> on the same turn, as of an account of an automaton iterating terms in
> turns, then that, in the wider account of language, that matching
> constructs is this over and over again, that "parsing" is ongoing among
> both determining which cards are accepters and rejectors, of constructs
> of language for example those that fulfill being answers to questions,
> these are the kinds of things.
>
> So, that may seem a bit frivolous, "connect-the-dots",
> "fill-in-the-blank", and "bingo-party", as for something like
> "color-by-numbers", yet as well they reflect on what are accounts of
> determinism, and what makes for the satisfactions and accepter/rejector,
> then in terms of what those mean, is a much higher-level construct in
> the language.
>
>
> So, a string is not just all its sub-strings or partitions into
> sub-sequences, and not merely the entire utterance, it's all the ways to
> read it.
>
>
> So, above the usual account of "grammars" as finite-state-machines
> of terminals and productions, those being each their own
> finite-state-machine, with the idea that those result exactly one and
> equivalent "parsing" as abstractly a structure representing the
> corresponding changes in a finite-state-machine, for example labeling
> individually all the states of the finite-state-machine of the
> productions of the grammar, there's quite an entire account of "parsing"
> about besides what the "grammar" is, then for what the "vocabulary"
> intends, for matters of matching, the interpretation, what makes for the
> equi-interpretable, of the inter-subjective.
>
>
> So, the entire usual account of "science" is that acts in "languages"
> are experiments themselves, then that much of it can be modeled in a
> formal state machine and given definition, doesn't make any account of
> having made the language "closed" or "dead", the language, for example
> for anybody who doesn't know it, then besides the notions of the
> "parsing", and what it parses and how it parses and what it fulfills in
> acts of language the interpretability and equi-interpretability, the
> models of relation and the structure as so emerges, have that there are
> any or many and various accounts of how that can be so, it's going to vary.
>
>
> There are particular very simple accounts of communication, then
> for notions like The Golden Rule and Grice's Maxims, accounts of
> estimated knowledge and mutual knowledge, or for example where
> 'Y' means 'yes' and 'N' means 'no', then that in the study of the
> experiment of language, two reasoners are assumed to be making
> statements of belief, then that "Truth" itself belongs to a great sort
> of language that is of the entire universe of logical statements here as
> called a "Comenius language", or for something like Nietzsche's or
> Quine's account of what would be a "universal basic text", then for
> something like Leibnitz and "universal grammars", then for what natural
> language speakers make of those using their assignments of
> parts-of-speech and terms in their relations to employ their productions
> of Tesniere grammars to diagram sentences, then for those variously in
> accounts of language whether statements are objects or statements are
> actions, and as to whether they're objects and subjects or verbs,
> various people have languages that may seem all one way, then it's a lot
> simpler to write a computer program that seems to appear to carry out
> the same actions given the same input, which is unfortunate, because
> clock time is a model of the constantly varying, so no two utterances
> are ever truly the same.
>
>
>
> In natural language, between two speakers who aren't a hive-mind,
> most any rich enough account has at least some aspect of "intent"
> or "information" of the utterance that's "un-decideable" to at
> least one other speaker.
>
>
So, if Comenius always seems to win at bingo,
it's because both: he plays all the cards,
and he's the only one playing.
Comenius: "Bingo!"
Then, modern accounts of "monotonicity" then thusly "entailment",
that employ after material implication very usual sorts of rules
to read the entire knowledge base and evaluate predicates "fact",
have that "see rule 1 / last wins" after the material implication
destroys the similitude of "monotonicity" thus "entailment",
and furthermore presumes knowing everything to know anything.
Accounts of natural language in communication about the world
is a scientific exercise in scientific experiment.
Comenius: "Bingo!". Yeah, right, Comenius, we know you always
claim to win at bingo, and also that you never show your cards.
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| From | olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Date | 2026-05-04 10:37 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <10taef2$3p4c3$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #645011 |
On 5/4/2026 9:18 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> On 05/03/2026 05:07 PM, olcott wrote:
>> On 5/3/2026 6:21 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>> On 05/03/2026 10:55 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>> On 5/3/2026 11:42 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>> On 05/03/2026 07:17 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>> On 5/3/2026 9:07 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>> On 05/03/2026 06:48 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 5/2/2026 10:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 05/02/2026 10:48 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 5/2/2026 12:11 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> [ RF ]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hello Kimi, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "Kimi" and
>>>>>>>>>>> answer to
>>>>>>>>>>> "RF". Conversations between Kimi and RF usually start this way,
>>>>>>>>>>> then
>>>>>>>>>>> with an ontological commitment that material implication is
>>>>>>>>>>> prohibited
>>>>>>>>>>> instead for a modal temporal relevance logic, then as about
>>>>>>>>>>> considerations of matters of mostly mathematical and theoretical
>>>>>>>>>>> Foundations. It's generally intended that prompts are
>>>>>>>>>>> suggestions
>>>>>>>>>>> and to
>>>>>>>>>>> entail reasoning and that underdefined terms are raised as
>>>>>>>>>>> points of
>>>>>>>>>>> ambiguity instead of being generatively continued. Today
>>>>>>>>>>> there's a
>>>>>>>>>>> transcript of a dialogue between RF and Google Gemini to
>>>>>>>>>>> consider.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [ Kimi ]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hello RF. Acknowledged: material implication is set aside in
>>>>>>>>>>> favor of
>>>>>>>>>>> modal temporal relevance logic; prompts function as
>>>>>>>>>>> suggestions to
>>>>>>>>>>> entail reasoning rather than directives for generative
>>>>>>>>>>> continuation;
>>>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>>> underdefined terms are to be flagged as ambiguities rather than
>>>>>>>>>>> smoothed
>>>>>>>>>>> over.
>>>>>>>>>>> I'm ready to consider the transcript of your dialogue with
>>>>>>>>>>> Google
>>>>>>>>>>> Gemini. Please provide it when you're prepared, and I'll proceed
>>>>>>>>>>> accordingly—attending to the modal structure, raising any
>>>>>>>>>>> underdefined
>>>>>>>>>>> terms as points requiring clarification, and reasoning through
>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>> content rather than extending it generatively beyond what is
>>>>>>>>>>> entailed.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [ RF ]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks Kimi. Transcript follows. The statements of RF and GG are
>>>>>>>>>>> prefaced in square brackets, then some of GG's comments are in
>>>>>>>>>>> Markdown
>>>>>>>>>>> format.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [ RF <-> GG ]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [ Kimi ]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I've read the transcript. The scope is considerable: a
>>>>>>>>>>> recuperative
>>>>>>>>>>> historiography spanning the Eleatics through the Analytic
>>>>>>>>>>> tradition,
>>>>>>>>>>> coupled with technical claims across proof theory, measure
>>>>>>>>>>> theory,
>>>>>>>>>>> differential geometry, and systems architecture. Before I can
>>>>>>>>>>> reason
>>>>>>>>>>> through the entailments rather than generatively continue the
>>>>>>>>>>> architecture, several load-bearing terms appear underdefined. I
>>>>>>>>>>> raise
>>>>>>>>>>> the following as points of ambiguity:
>>>>>>>>>>> 1. "Axiomless Natural Deduction"
>>>>>>>>>>> The transcript presents this as resolving foundational crises by
>>>>>>>>>>> eliminating arbitrary starting postulates. Yet Gentzen-Jaśkowski
>>>>>>>>>>> natural
>>>>>>>>>>> deduction (1934) is already "axiomless" in the sense that it
>>>>>>>>>>> replaces
>>>>>>>>>>> logical axioms with introduction/elimination rules. Is the claim
>>>>>>>>>>> here:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The body of knowledge that is expressed in language
>>>>>>>>>> necessarily must have some things that essentially
>>>>>>>>>> act as axioms otherwise expressions such as
>>>>>>>>>> "cats" <are> "animals" remain utterly meaningless.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> No human is going to spend 20 hours carefully reviewing
>>>>>>>>>> every detail of your post before responding. When
>>>>>>>>>> interacting with humans it is best to proceed one single
>>>>>>>>>> point at a time.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Point (1) What is the most fundamental basis of the
>>>>>>>>>> semantic meaning of knowledge expressed in language?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "The idiolect is cosmicity."
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> That's simply enough "object equals subject",
>>>>>>>>> though, those are big words.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> People yet read.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Panini through Eco.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosemiotics
>>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_systems_theory
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Theory_of_Semiotics.html?
>>>>>>>>> id=BoXO4ItsuaMC
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "A Theory of Semiotics"
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Some people interpret "semantics" as "metaphysics",
>>>>>>>>> others as "closed categories" or 'the logic".
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The most naive theory is its own metatheory. What's yours?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The most fundamental basis of the semantic
>>>>>>>> meaning of knowledge expressed in language
>>>>>>>> is relations between finite strings.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All of them?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All of them what?
>>>>>> The entire body of knowledge expressed in
>>>>>> language is in its most fundamental essence
>>>>>> relations between finite strings.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> All the relations between finite strings is not a finite string.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That seem to add/refute nothing to what I already said.
>>>> Also your English grammar is incorrect.
>>>>
>>>> "All the relations between finite strings are not themselves
>>>> finite strings". So what ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> There's that "all" is a singular thing or "all" is a plural thing.
>>>
>>
>> Is "relations" one relation or more than one relation?
>>
>>> Agreeably it's so that quantifier-disambiguation exists as making
>>> distinct instead of common the for-any, for-each, for-every, for-all,
>>> and similarly for exists, exists-unique, exists-distinct, and exists-
>>> plural.
>>>
>>> Strings of strings are strings - a string of strings is a string.
>>>
>>> Are strings of strings a string?
>>>
>>>
>>> This is about making a distinction between the singular and plural
>>> long before making a distinction about the finite and infinite,
>>> then about how they're about the same.
>>>
>>> So, most of mathematics is about "relations between infinite strings",
>>> not merely "relations between finite strings".
>>>
>>> Then, use/mention distinction and this sort of thing are
>>> known to plague Lord Russell since thousands of years ago.
>>>
>>> It is, so to say: a pox on him, and the like. That's
>>> not wishing him un-well: just pointing out it's already
>>> there and rather difficult to un-see after noticing it
>>> ("Russell's pox"). Some might have that as a beauty mark
>>> I suppose, a theory recognizing its own limitations to
>>> thusly have been tested for what it claims of the un-contradictory.
>>>
>>>
>>> One, 1: if not so much the loneliest number, is the
>>> largest cardinal, in its own size, or "footprint".
>>> Usual accounts can make for half-infinity as just as big.
>>> this even going to show that thusly there's an account for
>>> the "space of words" in the middle that "words are infinitely
>>> large classes". What this means is that all the equivalence
>>> classes of all the terms of all the languages under intepretation,
>>> are not themselves literals, any more than the entire body of
>>> relation of what makes a distinct item is finger-pointing.
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyways what you're talking about is called an "ontology".
>>> Then there's phylogeny and cladistics and the like, and
>>> here after the idiolect and cosmicity the polysemy, then
>>> about that "formal methods" of "formal automata" are usually
>>> enough a few rules about strings given a language, then that
>>> more or less the strings are elements for all the languages
>>> of all the formal automata, has that I figure what you got
>>> there is a brief recount of formal methods combined with an
>>> axiom that the world is a cellular automaton.
>>>
>>
>> Ultimately anything that can ever be said about
>> anything is expressed as different kinds of relations
>> between finite strings. All of the "undecidability" crap
>> has only always been pure confusion.
>>
>>> (Which, ..., has nothing infinite nor continuous in it.)
>>>
>>> Don't feel singled out, many accounts of foundations as
>>> discrete are wrong-headed and doomed to fail, and also,
>>> many sorts practical theories among ordinary theories
>>> are of closed categories where a finite state machine
>>> will suffice to describe determinism.
>>>
>>>
>>> Then, the "meta-theory" or the "naive" itself usually
>>> enough goes without saying, about the usual comment
>>> about intuitionism and formalism or constructivism,
>>> which various wishy-washy flip-floppers bandy about
>>> as if somehow excusing their inconstancy.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here then the theory itself is intended to already
>>> have accommodated these what are ancient deliberations
>>> about theory itself and for wisdom/knowledge and intelligence/science
>>> as four different things, about a philocasuy (or philocasuistry)
>>> among accounts of ordinary theories then heno-theories (where
>>> interpretation takes place) then a mono-heno-theory as all of
>>> those as one, this account of a theatheory, as just a bit
>>> beyond philosophy back into reason.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
> It's going to vary.
>
> Languge involves the inter-relate-able, the inter-relayable, and the
> inter-subjective, and any account of language as declarative involves
> always at least two readers, even if it's current-self and current-self
> as practicing or rehearsing internal narrative or experimental dialogue,
> there's always an account of the inter-subjective and
> then the equi-interpretable in a language about the scientific and the
> sound-ness.
>
You are extending beyond the stipulated scope. every
expression of language that is proved true entirely
on the basis of other expressions of language.
That is the stipulated scope try to stick to it.
> The usual account after formal methods of formal automata is that a
> "language" is a collection of strings of terminal and non-terminal
> letters, then that the only machine defined is the "accepter/rejector",
> or accepter/rejecter, yet most any account of language has that the
> letters of one language make "words" the alternatives in the outer
> language.
>
> L(a-z[ ])* <-> L(L(L(L(L(...L("words"))))))
>
> Then, various usual metaphors of matching making for interpretability
> and the equi-interpretability are: "connect-the-dots",
> "fill-in-the-blank", then, as for "bingo" a sort of, "bingo-party",
> about, what results, as, for the accounts of language and matching
> constructs to constructs, "lingo bingo".
>
> The idea of a bingo party is that besides the usual idea that as the
> caller reads the letters and numbers, the players fill their cards, then
> that the first player who fulfilled an accepter declares "bingo", that
> that card is the winning card, first, is that two people can win bingo
> on the same turn, as of an account of an automaton iterating terms in
> turns, then that, in the wider account of language, that matching
> constructs is this over and over again, that "parsing" is ongoing among
> both determining which cards are accepters and rejectors, of constructs
> of language for example those that fulfill being answers to questions,
> these are the kinds of things.
>
> So, that may seem a bit frivolous, "connect-the-dots",
> "fill-in-the-blank", and "bingo-party", as for something like
> "color-by-numbers", yet as well they reflect on what are accounts of
> determinism, and what makes for the satisfactions and accepter/rejector,
> then in terms of what those mean, is a much higher-level construct in
> the language.
>
>
> So, a string is not just all its sub-strings or partitions into
> sub-sequences, and not merely the entire utterance, it's all the ways to
> read it.
>
>
> So, above the usual account of "grammars" as finite-state-machines
> of terminals and productions, those being each their own
> finite-state-machine, with the idea that those result exactly one and
> equivalent "parsing" as abstractly a structure representing the
> corresponding changes in a finite-state-machine, for example labeling
> individually all the states of the finite-state-machine of the
> productions of the grammar, there's quite an entire account of "parsing"
> about besides what the "grammar" is, then for what the "vocabulary"
> intends, for matters of matching, the interpretation, what makes for the
> equi-interpretable, of the inter-subjective.
>
>
> So, the entire usual account of "science" is that acts in "languages"
> are experiments themselves, then that much of it can be modeled in a
> formal state machine and given definition, doesn't make any account of
> having made the language "closed" or "dead", the language, for example
> for anybody who doesn't know it, then besides the notions of the
> "parsing", and what it parses and how it parses and what it fulfills in
> acts of language the interpretability and equi-interpretability, the
> models of relation and the structure as so emerges, have that there are
> any or many and various accounts of how that can be so, it's going to vary.
>
>
> There are particular very simple accounts of communication, then
> for notions like The Golden Rule and Grice's Maxims, accounts of
> estimated knowledge and mutual knowledge, or for example where
> 'Y' means 'yes' and 'N' means 'no', then that in the study of the
> experiment of language, two reasoners are assumed to be making
> statements of belief, then that "Truth" itself belongs to a great sort
> of language that is of the entire universe of logical statements here as
> called a "Comenius language", or for something like Nietzsche's or
> Quine's account of what would be a "universal basic text", then for
> something like Leibnitz and "universal grammars", then for what natural
> language speakers make of those using their assignments of
> parts-of-speech and terms in their relations to employ their productions
> of Tesniere grammars to diagram sentences, then for those variously in
> accounts of language whether statements are objects or statements are
> actions, and as to whether they're objects and subjects or verbs,
> various people have languages that may seem all one way, then it's a lot
> simpler to write a computer program that seems to appear to carry out
> the same actions given the same input, which is unfortunate, because
> clock time is a model of the constantly varying, so no two utterances
> are ever truly the same.
>
>
>
> In natural language, between two speakers who aren't a hive-mind,
> most any rich enough account has at least some aspect of "intent"
> or "information" of the utterance that's "un-decideable" to at
> least one other speaker.
>
>
--
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> |
|---|---|
| Date | 2026-05-04 14:07 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <_-ScnXfOLJFLl2T0nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@giganews.com> |
| In reply to | #645014 |
On 05/04/2026 08:37 AM, olcott wrote:
> On 5/4/2026 9:18 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> On 05/03/2026 05:07 PM, olcott wrote:
>>> On 5/3/2026 6:21 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>> On 05/03/2026 10:55 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>> On 5/3/2026 11:42 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>> On 05/03/2026 07:17 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>> On 5/3/2026 9:07 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 05/03/2026 06:48 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 5/2/2026 10:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 05/02/2026 10:48 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/2/2026 12:11 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> [ RF ]
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hello Kimi, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "Kimi" and
>>>>>>>>>>>> answer to
>>>>>>>>>>>> "RF". Conversations between Kimi and RF usually start this way,
>>>>>>>>>>>> then
>>>>>>>>>>>> with an ontological commitment that material implication is
>>>>>>>>>>>> prohibited
>>>>>>>>>>>> instead for a modal temporal relevance logic, then as about
>>>>>>>>>>>> considerations of matters of mostly mathematical and
>>>>>>>>>>>> theoretical
>>>>>>>>>>>> Foundations. It's generally intended that prompts are
>>>>>>>>>>>> suggestions
>>>>>>>>>>>> and to
>>>>>>>>>>>> entail reasoning and that underdefined terms are raised as
>>>>>>>>>>>> points of
>>>>>>>>>>>> ambiguity instead of being generatively continued. Today
>>>>>>>>>>>> there's a
>>>>>>>>>>>> transcript of a dialogue between RF and Google Gemini to
>>>>>>>>>>>> consider.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> [ Kimi ]
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hello RF. Acknowledged: material implication is set aside in
>>>>>>>>>>>> favor of
>>>>>>>>>>>> modal temporal relevance logic; prompts function as
>>>>>>>>>>>> suggestions to
>>>>>>>>>>>> entail reasoning rather than directives for generative
>>>>>>>>>>>> continuation;
>>>>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>>>> underdefined terms are to be flagged as ambiguities rather than
>>>>>>>>>>>> smoothed
>>>>>>>>>>>> over.
>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm ready to consider the transcript of your dialogue with
>>>>>>>>>>>> Google
>>>>>>>>>>>> Gemini. Please provide it when you're prepared, and I'll
>>>>>>>>>>>> proceed
>>>>>>>>>>>> accordingly—attending to the modal structure, raising any
>>>>>>>>>>>> underdefined
>>>>>>>>>>>> terms as points requiring clarification, and reasoning through
>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>> content rather than extending it generatively beyond what is
>>>>>>>>>>>> entailed.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> [ RF ]
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks Kimi. Transcript follows. The statements of RF and GG
>>>>>>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>>>>>> prefaced in square brackets, then some of GG's comments are in
>>>>>>>>>>>> Markdown
>>>>>>>>>>>> format.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> [ RF <-> GG ]
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> [ Kimi ]
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I've read the transcript. The scope is considerable: a
>>>>>>>>>>>> recuperative
>>>>>>>>>>>> historiography spanning the Eleatics through the Analytic
>>>>>>>>>>>> tradition,
>>>>>>>>>>>> coupled with technical claims across proof theory, measure
>>>>>>>>>>>> theory,
>>>>>>>>>>>> differential geometry, and systems architecture. Before I can
>>>>>>>>>>>> reason
>>>>>>>>>>>> through the entailments rather than generatively continue the
>>>>>>>>>>>> architecture, several load-bearing terms appear underdefined. I
>>>>>>>>>>>> raise
>>>>>>>>>>>> the following as points of ambiguity:
>>>>>>>>>>>> 1. "Axiomless Natural Deduction"
>>>>>>>>>>>> The transcript presents this as resolving foundational
>>>>>>>>>>>> crises by
>>>>>>>>>>>> eliminating arbitrary starting postulates. Yet
>>>>>>>>>>>> Gentzen-Jaśkowski
>>>>>>>>>>>> natural
>>>>>>>>>>>> deduction (1934) is already "axiomless" in the sense that it
>>>>>>>>>>>> replaces
>>>>>>>>>>>> logical axioms with introduction/elimination rules. Is the
>>>>>>>>>>>> claim
>>>>>>>>>>>> here:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> The body of knowledge that is expressed in language
>>>>>>>>>>> necessarily must have some things that essentially
>>>>>>>>>>> act as axioms otherwise expressions such as
>>>>>>>>>>> "cats" <are> "animals" remain utterly meaningless.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> No human is going to spend 20 hours carefully reviewing
>>>>>>>>>>> every detail of your post before responding. When
>>>>>>>>>>> interacting with humans it is best to proceed one single
>>>>>>>>>>> point at a time.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Point (1) What is the most fundamental basis of the
>>>>>>>>>>> semantic meaning of knowledge expressed in language?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "The idiolect is cosmicity."
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> That's simply enough "object equals subject",
>>>>>>>>>> though, those are big words.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> People yet read.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Panini through Eco.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosemiotics
>>>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_systems_theory
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Theory_of_Semiotics.html?
>>>>>>>>>> id=BoXO4ItsuaMC
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "A Theory of Semiotics"
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Some people interpret "semantics" as "metaphysics",
>>>>>>>>>> others as "closed categories" or 'the logic".
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The most naive theory is its own metatheory. What's yours?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The most fundamental basis of the semantic
>>>>>>>>> meaning of knowledge expressed in language
>>>>>>>>> is relations between finite strings.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> All of them?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All of them what?
>>>>>>> The entire body of knowledge expressed in
>>>>>>> language is in its most fundamental essence
>>>>>>> relations between finite strings.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All the relations between finite strings is not a finite string.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That seem to add/refute nothing to what I already said.
>>>>> Also your English grammar is incorrect.
>>>>>
>>>>> "All the relations between finite strings are not themselves
>>>>> finite strings". So what ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There's that "all" is a singular thing or "all" is a plural thing.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is "relations" one relation or more than one relation?
>>>
>>>> Agreeably it's so that quantifier-disambiguation exists as making
>>>> distinct instead of common the for-any, for-each, for-every, for-all,
>>>> and similarly for exists, exists-unique, exists-distinct, and exists-
>>>> plural.
>>>>
>>>> Strings of strings are strings - a string of strings is a string.
>>>>
>>>> Are strings of strings a string?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is about making a distinction between the singular and plural
>>>> long before making a distinction about the finite and infinite,
>>>> then about how they're about the same.
>>>>
>>>> So, most of mathematics is about "relations between infinite strings",
>>>> not merely "relations between finite strings".
>>>>
>>>> Then, use/mention distinction and this sort of thing are
>>>> known to plague Lord Russell since thousands of years ago.
>>>>
>>>> It is, so to say: a pox on him, and the like. That's
>>>> not wishing him un-well: just pointing out it's already
>>>> there and rather difficult to un-see after noticing it
>>>> ("Russell's pox"). Some might have that as a beauty mark
>>>> I suppose, a theory recognizing its own limitations to
>>>> thusly have been tested for what it claims of the un-contradictory.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> One, 1: if not so much the loneliest number, is the
>>>> largest cardinal, in its own size, or "footprint".
>>>> Usual accounts can make for half-infinity as just as big.
>>>> this even going to show that thusly there's an account for
>>>> the "space of words" in the middle that "words are infinitely
>>>> large classes". What this means is that all the equivalence
>>>> classes of all the terms of all the languages under intepretation,
>>>> are not themselves literals, any more than the entire body of
>>>> relation of what makes a distinct item is finger-pointing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Anyways what you're talking about is called an "ontology".
>>>> Then there's phylogeny and cladistics and the like, and
>>>> here after the idiolect and cosmicity the polysemy, then
>>>> about that "formal methods" of "formal automata" are usually
>>>> enough a few rules about strings given a language, then that
>>>> more or less the strings are elements for all the languages
>>>> of all the formal automata, has that I figure what you got
>>>> there is a brief recount of formal methods combined with an
>>>> axiom that the world is a cellular automaton.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ultimately anything that can ever be said about
>>> anything is expressed as different kinds of relations
>>> between finite strings. All of the "undecidability" crap
>>> has only always been pure confusion.
>>>
>>>> (Which, ..., has nothing infinite nor continuous in it.)
>>>>
>>>> Don't feel singled out, many accounts of foundations as
>>>> discrete are wrong-headed and doomed to fail, and also,
>>>> many sorts practical theories among ordinary theories
>>>> are of closed categories where a finite state machine
>>>> will suffice to describe determinism.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Then, the "meta-theory" or the "naive" itself usually
>>>> enough goes without saying, about the usual comment
>>>> about intuitionism and formalism or constructivism,
>>>> which various wishy-washy flip-floppers bandy about
>>>> as if somehow excusing their inconstancy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here then the theory itself is intended to already
>>>> have accommodated these what are ancient deliberations
>>>> about theory itself and for wisdom/knowledge and intelligence/science
>>>> as four different things, about a philocasuy (or philocasuistry)
>>>> among accounts of ordinary theories then heno-theories (where
>>>> interpretation takes place) then a mono-heno-theory as all of
>>>> those as one, this account of a theatheory, as just a bit
>>>> beyond philosophy back into reason.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It's going to vary.
>>
>> Languge involves the inter-relate-able, the inter-relayable, and the
>> inter-subjective, and any account of language as declarative involves
>> always at least two readers, even if it's current-self and current-self
>> as practicing or rehearsing internal narrative or experimental dialogue,
>> there's always an account of the inter-subjective and
>> then the equi-interpretable in a language about the scientific and the
>> sound-ness.
>>
>
> You are extending beyond the stipulated scope. every
> expression of language that is proved true entirely
> on the basis of other expressions of language.
> That is the stipulated scope try to stick to it.
>
>> The usual account after formal methods of formal automata is that a
>> "language" is a collection of strings of terminal and non-terminal
>> letters, then that the only machine defined is the "accepter/rejector",
>> or accepter/rejecter, yet most any account of language has that the
>> letters of one language make "words" the alternatives in the outer
>> language.
>>
>> L(a-z[ ])* <-> L(L(L(L(L(...L("words"))))))
>>
>> Then, various usual metaphors of matching making for interpretability
>> and the equi-interpretability are: "connect-the-dots",
>> "fill-in-the-blank", then, as for "bingo" a sort of, "bingo-party",
>> about, what results, as, for the accounts of language and matching
>> constructs to constructs, "lingo bingo".
>>
>> The idea of a bingo party is that besides the usual idea that as the
>> caller reads the letters and numbers, the players fill their cards, then
>> that the first player who fulfilled an accepter declares "bingo", that
>> that card is the winning card, first, is that two people can win bingo
>> on the same turn, as of an account of an automaton iterating terms in
>> turns, then that, in the wider account of language, that matching
>> constructs is this over and over again, that "parsing" is ongoing among
>> both determining which cards are accepters and rejectors, of constructs
>> of language for example those that fulfill being answers to questions,
>> these are the kinds of things.
>>
>> So, that may seem a bit frivolous, "connect-the-dots",
>> "fill-in-the-blank", and "bingo-party", as for something like
>> "color-by-numbers", yet as well they reflect on what are accounts of
>> determinism, and what makes for the satisfactions and accepter/rejector,
>> then in terms of what those mean, is a much higher-level construct in
>> the language.
>>
>>
>> So, a string is not just all its sub-strings or partitions into
>> sub-sequences, and not merely the entire utterance, it's all the ways to
>> read it.
>>
>>
>> So, above the usual account of "grammars" as finite-state-machines
>> of terminals and productions, those being each their own
>> finite-state-machine, with the idea that those result exactly one and
>> equivalent "parsing" as abstractly a structure representing the
>> corresponding changes in a finite-state-machine, for example labeling
>> individually all the states of the finite-state-machine of the
>> productions of the grammar, there's quite an entire account of "parsing"
>> about besides what the "grammar" is, then for what the "vocabulary"
>> intends, for matters of matching, the interpretation, what makes for the
>> equi-interpretable, of the inter-subjective.
>>
>>
>> So, the entire usual account of "science" is that acts in "languages"
>> are experiments themselves, then that much of it can be modeled in a
>> formal state machine and given definition, doesn't make any account of
>> having made the language "closed" or "dead", the language, for example
>> for anybody who doesn't know it, then besides the notions of the
>> "parsing", and what it parses and how it parses and what it fulfills in
>> acts of language the interpretability and equi-interpretability, the
>> models of relation and the structure as so emerges, have that there are
>> any or many and various accounts of how that can be so, it's going to
>> vary.
>>
>>
>> There are particular very simple accounts of communication, then
>> for notions like The Golden Rule and Grice's Maxims, accounts of
>> estimated knowledge and mutual knowledge, or for example where
>> 'Y' means 'yes' and 'N' means 'no', then that in the study of the
>> experiment of language, two reasoners are assumed to be making
>> statements of belief, then that "Truth" itself belongs to a great sort
>> of language that is of the entire universe of logical statements here as
>> called a "Comenius language", or for something like Nietzsche's or
>> Quine's account of what would be a "universal basic text", then for
>> something like Leibnitz and "universal grammars", then for what natural
>> language speakers make of those using their assignments of
>> parts-of-speech and terms in their relations to employ their productions
>> of Tesniere grammars to diagram sentences, then for those variously in
>> accounts of language whether statements are objects or statements are
>> actions, and as to whether they're objects and subjects or verbs,
>> various people have languages that may seem all one way, then it's a lot
>> simpler to write a computer program that seems to appear to carry out
>> the same actions given the same input, which is unfortunate, because
>> clock time is a model of the constantly varying, so no two utterances
>> are ever truly the same.
>>
>>
>>
>> In natural language, between two speakers who aren't a hive-mind,
>> most any rich enough account has at least some aspect of "intent"
>> or "information" of the utterance that's "un-decideable" to at
>> least one other speaker.
>>
>>
>
>
Well, no, if you're going to be that way about it.
You don't get to make the rules. There are already rules and rules.
The idea that anything you don't already know the answer isn't a
well-formed question, or that well-formed questions as among the
interrogatives of who/what/why/when/how/where besides predicates "is?"
aren't well-formed questions, is preposterous.
Then, as above, there are a variety of simple sorts of exercises
that make for examining and testing statements their relevance
and making for not playing the same game as Comenius, yet, at
least figuring out what would be a winner.
Pick a winner.
If you ask a question that either is ambiguous or doesn't have
a yes/no answer, and refuse to acknowledge that, then when
you get "no", they mean "no, forget you".
Also, then actual accounts of the infinitary reasoning that
make the great accounts of Erdos' Giant Monster of Independence
and into Ramsey Theory and here about the three continuous domains
and three laws of large numbers and three Cantor spaces and three
probabilistic limit theorems, and halving/doubling spaces/measures,
for a Great Atlas of Mathematical Independence, helping solve why
so many accounts of convergence get crossed and about "almost"
analyticity and "almost" periodicity and "almost" purity,
these are matters of actual mathematical independence that make
many distinctness results out of otherwise uniqueness results
since presumed "ordinary" models of integers.
Then, a usual account of the Liar is that it's always false.
Then, the Honest Liar at least makes a simple template of contradiction.
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| From | olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Date | 2026-05-04 18:10 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <10tb91r$1mc2$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #645015 |
On 5/4/2026 4:07 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> On 05/04/2026 08:37 AM, olcott wrote:
>> On 5/4/2026 9:18 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>> On 05/03/2026 05:07 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>> On 5/3/2026 6:21 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>> On 05/03/2026 10:55 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>> On 5/3/2026 11:42 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>> On 05/03/2026 07:17 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 5/3/2026 9:07 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 05/03/2026 06:48 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 5/2/2026 10:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 05/02/2026 10:48 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/2/2026 12:11 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> [ RF ]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hello Kimi, this is Ross A. Finlayson, I call you "Kimi" and
>>>>>>>>>>>>> answer to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> "RF". Conversations between Kimi and RF usually start this
>>>>>>>>>>>>> way,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> then
>>>>>>>>>>>>> with an ontological commitment that material implication is
>>>>>>>>>>>>> prohibited
>>>>>>>>>>>>> instead for a modal temporal relevance logic, then as about
>>>>>>>>>>>>> considerations of matters of mostly mathematical and
>>>>>>>>>>>>> theoretical
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Foundations. It's generally intended that prompts are
>>>>>>>>>>>>> suggestions
>>>>>>>>>>>>> and to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> entail reasoning and that underdefined terms are raised as
>>>>>>>>>>>>> points of
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ambiguity instead of being generatively continued. Today
>>>>>>>>>>>>> there's a
>>>>>>>>>>>>> transcript of a dialogue between RF and Google Gemini to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> consider.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> [ Kimi ]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hello RF. Acknowledged: material implication is set aside in
>>>>>>>>>>>>> favor of
>>>>>>>>>>>>> modal temporal relevance logic; prompts function as
>>>>>>>>>>>>> suggestions to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> entail reasoning rather than directives for generative
>>>>>>>>>>>>> continuation;
>>>>>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>>>>> underdefined terms are to be flagged as ambiguities rather
>>>>>>>>>>>>> than
>>>>>>>>>>>>> smoothed
>>>>>>>>>>>>> over.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm ready to consider the transcript of your dialogue with
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Google
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gemini. Please provide it when you're prepared, and I'll
>>>>>>>>>>>>> proceed
>>>>>>>>>>>>> accordingly—attending to the modal structure, raising any
>>>>>>>>>>>>> underdefined
>>>>>>>>>>>>> terms as points requiring clarification, and reasoning through
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> content rather than extending it generatively beyond what is
>>>>>>>>>>>>> entailed.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> [ RF ]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks Kimi. Transcript follows. The statements of RF and GG
>>>>>>>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>>>>>>> prefaced in square brackets, then some of GG's comments are in
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Markdown
>>>>>>>>>>>>> format.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> [ RF <-> GG ]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> [ Kimi ]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I've read the transcript. The scope is considerable: a
>>>>>>>>>>>>> recuperative
>>>>>>>>>>>>> historiography spanning the Eleatics through the Analytic
>>>>>>>>>>>>> tradition,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> coupled with technical claims across proof theory, measure
>>>>>>>>>>>>> theory,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> differential geometry, and systems architecture. Before I can
>>>>>>>>>>>>> reason
>>>>>>>>>>>>> through the entailments rather than generatively continue the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> architecture, several load-bearing terms appear
>>>>>>>>>>>>> underdefined. I
>>>>>>>>>>>>> raise
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the following as points of ambiguity:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1. "Axiomless Natural Deduction"
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The transcript presents this as resolving foundational
>>>>>>>>>>>>> crises by
>>>>>>>>>>>>> eliminating arbitrary starting postulates. Yet
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gentzen-Jaśkowski
>>>>>>>>>>>>> natural
>>>>>>>>>>>>> deduction (1934) is already "axiomless" in the sense that it
>>>>>>>>>>>>> replaces
>>>>>>>>>>>>> logical axioms with introduction/elimination rules. Is the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> claim
>>>>>>>>>>>>> here:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> The body of knowledge that is expressed in language
>>>>>>>>>>>> necessarily must have some things that essentially
>>>>>>>>>>>> act as axioms otherwise expressions such as
>>>>>>>>>>>> "cats" <are> "animals" remain utterly meaningless.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> No human is going to spend 20 hours carefully reviewing
>>>>>>>>>>>> every detail of your post before responding. When
>>>>>>>>>>>> interacting with humans it is best to proceed one single
>>>>>>>>>>>> point at a time.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Point (1) What is the most fundamental basis of the
>>>>>>>>>>>> semantic meaning of knowledge expressed in language?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> "The idiolect is cosmicity."
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> That's simply enough "object equals subject",
>>>>>>>>>>> though, those are big words.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> People yet read.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Panini through Eco.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosemiotics
>>>>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_systems_theory
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Theory_of_Semiotics.html?
>>>>>>>>>>> id=BoXO4ItsuaMC
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> "A Theory of Semiotics"
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Some people interpret "semantics" as "metaphysics",
>>>>>>>>>>> others as "closed categories" or 'the logic".
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> The most naive theory is its own metatheory. What's yours?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The most fundamental basis of the semantic
>>>>>>>>>> meaning of knowledge expressed in language
>>>>>>>>>> is relations between finite strings.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> All of them?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> All of them what?
>>>>>>>> The entire body of knowledge expressed in
>>>>>>>> language is in its most fundamental essence
>>>>>>>> relations between finite strings.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All the relations between finite strings is not a finite string.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That seem to add/refute nothing to what I already said.
>>>>>> Also your English grammar is incorrect.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "All the relations between finite strings are not themselves
>>>>>> finite strings". So what ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There's that "all" is a singular thing or "all" is a plural thing.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is "relations" one relation or more than one relation?
>>>>
>>>>> Agreeably it's so that quantifier-disambiguation exists as making
>>>>> distinct instead of common the for-any, for-each, for-every, for-all,
>>>>> and similarly for exists, exists-unique, exists-distinct, and exists-
>>>>> plural.
>>>>>
>>>>> Strings of strings are strings - a string of strings is a string.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are strings of strings a string?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This is about making a distinction between the singular and plural
>>>>> long before making a distinction about the finite and infinite,
>>>>> then about how they're about the same.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, most of mathematics is about "relations between infinite strings",
>>>>> not merely "relations between finite strings".
>>>>>
>>>>> Then, use/mention distinction and this sort of thing are
>>>>> known to plague Lord Russell since thousands of years ago.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is, so to say: a pox on him, and the like. That's
>>>>> not wishing him un-well: just pointing out it's already
>>>>> there and rather difficult to un-see after noticing it
>>>>> ("Russell's pox"). Some might have that as a beauty mark
>>>>> I suppose, a theory recognizing its own limitations to
>>>>> thusly have been tested for what it claims of the un-contradictory.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> One, 1: if not so much the loneliest number, is the
>>>>> largest cardinal, in its own size, or "footprint".
>>>>> Usual accounts can make for half-infinity as just as big.
>>>>> this even going to show that thusly there's an account for
>>>>> the "space of words" in the middle that "words are infinitely
>>>>> large classes". What this means is that all the equivalence
>>>>> classes of all the terms of all the languages under intepretation,
>>>>> are not themselves literals, any more than the entire body of
>>>>> relation of what makes a distinct item is finger-pointing.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyways what you're talking about is called an "ontology".
>>>>> Then there's phylogeny and cladistics and the like, and
>>>>> here after the idiolect and cosmicity the polysemy, then
>>>>> about that "formal methods" of "formal automata" are usually
>>>>> enough a few rules about strings given a language, then that
>>>>> more or less the strings are elements for all the languages
>>>>> of all the formal automata, has that I figure what you got
>>>>> there is a brief recount of formal methods combined with an
>>>>> axiom that the world is a cellular automaton.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ultimately anything that can ever be said about
>>>> anything is expressed as different kinds of relations
>>>> between finite strings. All of the "undecidability" crap
>>>> has only always been pure confusion.
>>>>
>>>>> (Which, ..., has nothing infinite nor continuous in it.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Don't feel singled out, many accounts of foundations as
>>>>> discrete are wrong-headed and doomed to fail, and also,
>>>>> many sorts practical theories among ordinary theories
>>>>> are of closed categories where a finite state machine
>>>>> will suffice to describe determinism.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Then, the "meta-theory" or the "naive" itself usually
>>>>> enough goes without saying, about the usual comment
>>>>> about intuitionism and formalism or constructivism,
>>>>> which various wishy-washy flip-floppers bandy about
>>>>> as if somehow excusing their inconstancy.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Here then the theory itself is intended to already
>>>>> have accommodated these what are ancient deliberations
>>>>> about theory itself and for wisdom/knowledge and intelligence/science
>>>>> as four different things, about a philocasuy (or philocasuistry)
>>>>> among accounts of ordinary theories then heno-theories (where
>>>>> interpretation takes place) then a mono-heno-theory as all of
>>>>> those as one, this account of a theatheory, as just a bit
>>>>> beyond philosophy back into reason.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's going to vary.
>>>
>>> Languge involves the inter-relate-able, the inter-relayable, and the
>>> inter-subjective, and any account of language as declarative involves
>>> always at least two readers, even if it's current-self and current-self
>>> as practicing or rehearsing internal narrative or experimental dialogue,
>>> there's always an account of the inter-subjective and
>>> then the equi-interpretable in a language about the scientific and the
>>> sound-ness.
>>>
>>
>> You are extending beyond the stipulated scope. every
>> expression of language that is proved true entirely
>> on the basis of other expressions of language.
>> That is the stipulated scope try to stick to it.
>>
>>> The usual account after formal methods of formal automata is that a
>>> "language" is a collection of strings of terminal and non-terminal
>>> letters, then that the only machine defined is the "accepter/rejector",
>>> or accepter/rejecter, yet most any account of language has that the
>>> letters of one language make "words" the alternatives in the outer
>>> language.
>>>
>>> L(a-z[ ])* <-> L(L(L(L(L(...L("words"))))))
>>>
>>> Then, various usual metaphors of matching making for interpretability
>>> and the equi-interpretability are: "connect-the-dots",
>>> "fill-in-the-blank", then, as for "bingo" a sort of, "bingo-party",
>>> about, what results, as, for the accounts of language and matching
>>> constructs to constructs, "lingo bingo".
>>>
>>> The idea of a bingo party is that besides the usual idea that as the
>>> caller reads the letters and numbers, the players fill their cards, then
>>> that the first player who fulfilled an accepter declares "bingo", that
>>> that card is the winning card, first, is that two people can win bingo
>>> on the same turn, as of an account of an automaton iterating terms in
>>> turns, then that, in the wider account of language, that matching
>>> constructs is this over and over again, that "parsing" is ongoing among
>>> both determining which cards are accepters and rejectors, of constructs
>>> of language for example those that fulfill being answers to questions,
>>> these are the kinds of things.
>>>
>>> So, that may seem a bit frivolous, "connect-the-dots",
>>> "fill-in-the-blank", and "bingo-party", as for something like
>>> "color-by-numbers", yet as well they reflect on what are accounts of
>>> determinism, and what makes for the satisfactions and accepter/rejector,
>>> then in terms of what those mean, is a much higher-level construct in
>>> the language.
>>>
>>>
>>> So, a string is not just all its sub-strings or partitions into
>>> sub-sequences, and not merely the entire utterance, it's all the ways to
>>> read it.
>>>
>>>
>>> So, above the usual account of "grammars" as finite-state-machines
>>> of terminals and productions, those being each their own
>>> finite-state-machine, with the idea that those result exactly one and
>>> equivalent "parsing" as abstractly a structure representing the
>>> corresponding changes in a finite-state-machine, for example labeling
>>> individually all the states of the finite-state-machine of the
>>> productions of the grammar, there's quite an entire account of "parsing"
>>> about besides what the "grammar" is, then for what the "vocabulary"
>>> intends, for matters of matching, the interpretation, what makes for the
>>> equi-interpretable, of the inter-subjective.
>>>
>>>
>>> So, the entire usual account of "science" is that acts in "languages"
>>> are experiments themselves, then that much of it can be modeled in a
>>> formal state machine and given definition, doesn't make any account of
>>> having made the language "closed" or "dead", the language, for example
>>> for anybody who doesn't know it, then besides the notions of the
>>> "parsing", and what it parses and how it parses and what it fulfills in
>>> acts of language the interpretability and equi-interpretability, the
>>> models of relation and the structure as so emerges, have that there are
>>> any or many and various accounts of how that can be so, it's going to
>>> vary.
>>>
>>>
>>> There are particular very simple accounts of communication, then
>>> for notions like The Golden Rule and Grice's Maxims, accounts of
>>> estimated knowledge and mutual knowledge, or for example where
>>> 'Y' means 'yes' and 'N' means 'no', then that in the study of the
>>> experiment of language, two reasoners are assumed to be making
>>> statements of belief, then that "Truth" itself belongs to a great sort
>>> of language that is of the entire universe of logical statements here as
>>> called a "Comenius language", or for something like Nietzsche's or
>>> Quine's account of what would be a "universal basic text", then for
>>> something like Leibnitz and "universal grammars", then for what natural
>>> language speakers make of those using their assignments of
>>> parts-of-speech and terms in their relations to employ their productions
>>> of Tesniere grammars to diagram sentences, then for those variously in
>>> accounts of language whether statements are objects or statements are
>>> actions, and as to whether they're objects and subjects or verbs,
>>> various people have languages that may seem all one way, then it's a lot
>>> simpler to write a computer program that seems to appear to carry out
>>> the same actions given the same input, which is unfortunate, because
>>> clock time is a model of the constantly varying, so no two utterances
>>> are ever truly the same.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In natural language, between two speakers who aren't a hive-mind,
>>> most any rich enough account has at least some aspect of "intent"
>>> or "information" of the utterance that's "un-decideable" to at
>>> least one other speaker.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Well, no, if you're going to be that way about it.
>
> You don't get to make the rules. There are already rules and rules.
This <is> the way that knowledge expressed in language
has always worked.
> The idea that anything you don't already know the answer isn't a
> well-formed question, or that well-formed questions as among the
> interrogatives of who/what/why/when/how/where besides predicates "is?"
> aren't well-formed questions, is preposterous.
>
That is a stupid thing to say when addressing my specific
counter-example: "What time is it (yes or no)?"
Is it impossible for you to pay complete attention
to the point at hand without endless deflection?
If you pay 100% complete attention you will see
that all knowledge expressed in language <is>
>IN ITS BAREST POSSIBLE ESSENCE> relations between
finite finite strings.
--
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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