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Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA

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First post2026-04-20 11:57 -0500
Last post2026-06-30 06:54 +0100
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  Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-20 11:57 -0500
    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-04-21 09:41 +0300
      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-21 08:33 -0500
        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-04-22 10:19 +0300
          Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-22 02:48 -0500
            Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-04-22 11:19 +0300
              Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-22 08:17 -0500
                Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-04-23 10:06 +0300
                  Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-23 08:49 -0500
                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-04-24 09:33 +0300
            Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-04-22 17:06 -0600
              Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-22 20:21 -0500
                Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-04-24 00:19 -0600
                  Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-04-24 21:12 -0700
                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-04-24 21:14 -0700
              Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-22 18:25 -0700
                Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-22 18:29 -0700
              Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-06-20 17:50 +0100
                Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-20 12:32 -0500
                  Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-06-27 07:53 +0100
                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-06-27 07:19 -0700
                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA polcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-27 09:50 -0500
                      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-06-28 11:39 +0300
                        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-28 21:52 -0500
                          Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-06-29 09:14 +0300
                            Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 08:29 -0500
                              Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-29 11:05 -0600
                                Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 13:16 -0500
                                  Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-29 12:29 -0600
                                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 14:08 -0500
                                      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-29 13:33 -0600
                                        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 14:47 -0500
                                          Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-29 14:02 -0600
                                            Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 15:06 -0500
                                              Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-29 14:58 -0600
                                                Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 16:10 -0500
                                                  Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-29 15:18 -0600
                                                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 16:39 -0500
                                                      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-29 16:25 -0600
                                                        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 17:38 -0500
                                                          Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-29 17:03 -0600
                                                            Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 18:36 -0500
                                                              Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-29 17:45 -0600
                                                                Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 19:37 -0500
                                                                  Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-29 19:01 -0600
                                                                    The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 20:19 -0500
                                                                      Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-29 19:54 -0600
                                                                        Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 21:17 -0500
                                                                          Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-29 20:31 -0600
                                                                            Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 21:42 -0500
                                                                              Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-29 20:49 -0600
                                                                                Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 22:06 -0500
                                                                                  Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-30 15:18 -0600
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                                                                                        Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-30 17:04 -0500
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                                                                                                Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-30 22:10 -0500
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                                                                                                        Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-30 23:20 -0500
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                                                                                                            Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-01 09:40 -0500
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                                                                                                                  Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-07-01 12:10 -0600
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                                                                                                                      Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-07-01 12:40 -0600
                                                                                                                        Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-01 13:50 -0500
                                                                                                                          Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-07-01 13:23 -0600
                                                                                                                            Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-01 14:47 -0500
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                                                                                                                                    Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-01 15:52 -0500
                                                                                                                                      Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-07-01 15:10 -0600
                                                                                                                                        Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-01 17:43 -0500
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                                                                                                                                            Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-01 19:05 -0500
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                                                                                                                                                                                      Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 17:37 -0500
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                                                                                                                                                                                          Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 20:52 -0500
                                                                                                                                                                                            Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics dbush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 21:58 -0400
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                                                                                                                                                                                                  Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 21:37 -0500
                                                                                                                                                                                                    Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics dbush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 22:43 -0400
                                                                                                                                                                                                      The truth about the halting problem counter-example input olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 22:11 -0500
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Re: The truth about the halting problem counter-example input dbush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 23:23 -0400
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Re: The truth about the halting problem counter-example input Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-07-04 11:58 +0300
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Re: The truth about the halting problem counter-example input olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 12:16 -0500
                                                                                                                                                                                                    Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-07-04 10:48 +0300
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 11:58 -0500
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                                                                                                                                                                                            Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-07-04 10:46 +0300
                                                                                                                                                                                              Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 11:55 -0500
                                                                                                                                                                                        Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics dbush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 20:10 -0400
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                                                                                                                                                                                    Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-07-04 10:43 +0300
                                                                                                                                                                                      Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 11:52 -0500
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                                                                                                                                                                                  Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 13:45 -0500
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                                                                                                                                                                                        Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-07-04 10:57 +0300
                                                                                                                                                                                    Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-07-04 10:55 +0300
                                                                                                                                                                                      Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 12:01 -0500
                                                                                                                                                                                        Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics dbush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 13:10 -0400
                                                                                                                                                                                  Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 14:08 -0500
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                                                                                                                                                                                    Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-07-04 11:00 +0300
                                                                                                                                                                                      Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 12:03 -0500
                                                                                                                                                                                Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-07-04 10:41 +0300
                                                                                                                                                                                  Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 08:38 -0500
                                                                                                                                                                                    Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics dbush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 09:40 -0400
                                                                                                                                                                        Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-07-04 10:37 +0300
                                                                                                                                                                          Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 08:32 -0500
                                                                                                                                                                            Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics dbush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 09:37 -0400
                                                                                                                                                                      Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-07-03 17:27 +0000
                                                                                                  Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-30 21:31 -0600
                                                                                                    Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-30 23:17 -0500
                                                                                              Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics dbush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2026-06-30 23:04 -0400
                                                                                                Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-30 22:11 -0500
                                                                                    Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-30 16:56 -0500
                                                                                      Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-30 16:06 -0600
                                                                                        Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-30 17:08 -0500
                                                                                        Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-30 17:42 -0500
                                                                                          Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-30 16:51 -0600
                                                                                            Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-30 21:07 -0500
                                                                        Re: The simple essence of Proof Theoretic Semantics olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 21:26 -0500
                              Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-06-30 11:18 +0300
                                Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-30 08:58 -0500
                                  Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-07-01 10:24 +0300
                                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-01 10:16 -0500
                                      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-07-02 09:55 +0300
                                        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-02 09:49 -0500
                                          Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-07-03 12:28 +0300
                                            Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 10:38 -0500
                                              Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-07-03 11:35 -0600
                                                Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 13:20 -0500
                                                  Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-07-03 12:37 -0600
                                                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 15:13 -0500
                                                      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-07-03 14:32 -0600
                                                        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 20:08 -0500
                                                  Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-07-04 11:06 +0300
                                                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 12:07 -0500
                                                      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA dbush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 13:11 -0400
                                                        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 16:01 -0500
                                                        Terms-Of-The-Art are Liars olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 16:12 -0500
                                                          Re: Terms-Of-The-Art are Liars dbush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 17:30 -0400
                                              Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-07-04 11:04 +0300
                      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-06-29 10:50 +0100
                        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA polcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 08:01 -0500
    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> - 2026-04-26 20:01 +0000
      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-26 15:54 -0500
        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-04-26 20:16 -0400
        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-04-27 12:30 +0300
          Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-27 09:53 -0500
            Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> - 2026-04-27 19:15 +0000
              Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-27 15:10 -0500
              Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> - 2026-04-27 21:03 +0000
                Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-27 16:57 -0500
                  Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-04-28 10:34 +0300
                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-28 07:18 -0500
                      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-04-29 09:37 +0300
                        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-29 09:17 -0500
                          Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-04-30 10:55 +0300
                            Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 07:01 -0500
                              Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-05-01 11:24 +0300
                                Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 09:54 -0500
                                  Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 10:47 -0700
                                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 11:01 -0700
                                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 14:35 -0500
                                      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 12:54 -0700
                                        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 15:36 -0500
                                          Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-06-30 13:14 +0100
                                        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 15:41 -0500
                                          Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 19:47 -0700
                                  Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-05-02 11:04 +0300
                                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-02 07:36 -0500
                                      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-05-03 10:56 +0300
                  Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> - 2026-04-28 10:22 +0000
                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-28 06:14 -0500
                      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> - 2026-04-28 12:04 +0000
                        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-28 07:14 -0500
                Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> - 2026-04-27 22:01 +0000
                  Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-27 17:22 -0500
                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-04-28 11:10 +0300
                      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-04-28 07:30 -0500
                        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-04-29 10:11 +0300
                  Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> - 2026-04-28 10:35 +0000
                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> - 2026-04-29 14:27 +0000
              Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2026-05-01 21:17 +0200
                Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 12:34 -0700
                Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 14:38 -0500
                Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> - 2026-05-01 22:10 +0000
                  Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2026-05-02 16:26 +0200
                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-02 09:54 -0500
                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> - 2026-05-02 18:47 +0000
                      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-02 12:06 -0700
                      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2026-05-06 21:37 +0200
                        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-05-06 13:48 -0600
                          Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-06 12:59 -0700
                          Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-06-30 16:10 +0100
                        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> - 2026-05-07 01:12 +0000
                        Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-07-04 16:31 +0100
                    Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-02 20:56 -0700
      Re: Within Proof Theoretic Semantics Gödel's G has no meaning in PA Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-06-30 06:54 +0100

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#345702

Fromolcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
Date2026-04-27 15:10 -0500
Message-ID<10sofqv$2lhnj$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#345701
On 4/27/2026 2:15 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This sentence
>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>>>>
>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>      ...
>>
>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>> terminating.
>>
>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
> 
> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
> 
> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
> graph looks like this:
> 
> (D1)
> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
> 
> Yours appears to look like this, where its semantic (?)
> evaluation contains a cycle:
> 
> (D2)
> · ─┐
> ↑  ↓
> └─ ·
> 
> (This may be an oversimplification of the actual cycle, but it's
> for illustrative purposes.)
> 
> I'll requote my proposed division of concepts:
> 
>>>>> As regards semantics, I could call statement (1) the
>>>>> "unencoded sentence," sentence (2) the "first encoded
>>>>> sentence," the concept under which all sentences (1)-(∞)
>>>>> belong the "formally abstracted sentence," and the concept
>>>>> under which all sentences (2)-(∞) belong the
>>>>> "encoding-abstracted sentence."
> 
> If we're speaking of the /infinite sequence of nth-encoded
> sentences/, the graph would be D1. However, we may still be able
> to argue that for the /formally abstracted/ sentence, the graph
> would be D2.
> 
> The formally abstracted sentence is closer in concept to "This
> sentence is unprovable."
> 

Yet that is one way of several ways to see the error of the
1931 Incompleteness Theorem.

> Does this view sound tenable?
> 
> -- Scott Hoge

% This sentence is not true.
?- LP = not(true(LP)).
LP = not(true(LP)).
?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
false.

Prolog finally once and for all resolves the Liar Paradox
as semantically incoherent within the analytical framework
of Proof Theoretical Semantics. It does this on the basis
that the LP specifies a cycle in the directed graph of its
evaluation sequence, thus not a well founded justification
tree.

The above the simplest possible concrete example of my 28
years of primary research.


-- 
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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#345703

FromAlan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Date2026-04-27 21:03 +0000
Message-ID<10soiuk$np0$1@news.muc.de>
In reply to#345701
[ Followup-To: set ]

In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:

> [...]

> >>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:

> >>>> [...]

> >>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This sentence
> >>>> is unprovable," but rather:

> >>>> The following is unprovable (1):
> >>>>   The following is unprovable (2):
> >>>>    The following is unprovable (3):
> >>>>     ...

> > The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
> > has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
> > terminating.

> > If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
> > never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
> > of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
> > you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.

> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.

> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
> graph looks like this:

> (D1)
> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...

I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of Gödel's
incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless directed
graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings by those
lacking formal training in mathematics.

[*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel, Escher, Bach,
an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published around 1978 or
1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central theme of the
book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.

Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof.  Although not
particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.

And please note, this theorem is _TRUE_.  It has been proven rigorously
and verified by millions of students and academics over a very long time
period.

Peter Olcott doesn't like it any more than he doesn't understand it, so
he pours scorn on the distinguished mathematicians of the past, falsely
claiming it to be false.  I would urge you to be sceptical of _any_ so
called "result" emanating from him.

[ .... ]

> -- Scott Hoge

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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#345704

Fromolcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
Date2026-04-27 16:57 -0500
Message-ID<10som3k$2ndjl$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#345703
On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> [ Followup-To: set ]
> 
> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> [...]
> 
>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
> 
>>>>>> [...]
> 
>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This sentence
>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
> 
>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>      ...
> 
>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>> terminating.
> 
>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
> 
>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
> 
>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
>> graph looks like this:
> 
>> (D1)
>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
> 
> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of Gödel's
> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless directed
> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings by those
> lacking formal training in mathematics.
> 
> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel, Escher, Bach,
> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published around 1978 or
> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central theme of the
> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
> 
> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof.  Although not
> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
> 

After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that Gödel
himself says that his proof does have pathological self reference
you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here only
cares about denigration rather than truth.

Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in the Gödel 
sentence

BEGIN:(Gödel 1931:39-41)...there is also a close
...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which asserts its own 
unprovability. 15

...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which asserts its own 
unprovability. 15

...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which asserts its own 
unprovability. 15

...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which asserts its own 
unprovability. 15

...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which asserts its own 
unprovability. 15

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350789898_Prolog_detects_and_rejects_pathological_self_reference_in_the_Godel_sentence 


> And please note, this theorem is _TRUE_.  It has been proven rigorously
> and verified by millions of students and academics over a very long time
> period.
> 

Yet never once examined within the alternative foundation of
proof theoretic semantics utterly replacing foundation of model
theoretic semantics.

> Peter Olcott doesn't like it any more than he doesn't understand it, so
> he pours scorn on the distinguished mathematicians of the past, falsely
> claiming it to be false.  I would urge you to be sceptical of _any_ so
> called "result" emanating from him.
> 
> [ .... ]
> 
>> -- Scott Hoge
> 


-- 
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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#345707

FromMikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi>
Date2026-04-28 10:34 +0300
Message-ID<10spntn$2viov$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#345704
On 28/04/2026 00:57, olcott wrote:
> On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> [ Followup-To: set ]
>>
>> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> [...]
>>
>>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This sentence
>>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>
>>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>>      ...
>>
>>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>>> terminating.
>>
>>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
>>
>>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
>>
>>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
>>> graph looks like this:
>>
>>> (D1)
>>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
>>
>> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of Gödel's
>> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless directed
>> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings by those
>> lacking formal training in mathematics.
>>
>> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel, Escher, Bach,
>> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published around 1978 or
>> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central theme of the
>> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
>>
>> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof.  Although not
>> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
> 
> After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that Gödel
> himself says that his proof does have pathological self reference
> you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here only
> cares about denigration rather than truth.
> 
> Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in the Gödel 
> sentence

Prolog alone does not detect pathological self reference. It has
certain standard predicates that makes such detection simpler
than in typical programming languages(like Fortran) but the same
detection is possible in those, too.

Gödel's sentence is a sentence in the first order Peano arithmetic.
In that language there is no way to express a reference and in
particular a self-reference. For the undecidability proof there is
no need to interprete the theorem at all. In the proof of an Peano-
unprovable arithmetic truth the usual arithmetic interpretation is
relevant.

> BEGIN:(Gödel 1931:39-41)...there is also a close
> ...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which asserts its own 
> unprovability. 15
> 
> ...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which asserts its own 
> unprovability. 15
> 
> ...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which asserts its own 
> unprovability. 15
> 
> ...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which asserts its own 
> unprovability. 15
> 
> ...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which asserts its own 
> unprovability. 15

Olcott's ilevel of understanding is illustrated by his habit to prove
by repetition.

> https://www.researchgate.net/ 
> publication/350789898_Prolog_detects_and_rejects_pathological_self_reference_in_the_Godel_sentence
> 
>> And please note, this theorem is _TRUE_.  It has been proven rigorously
>> and verified by millions of students and academics over a very long time
>> period.
> 
> Yet never once examined within the alternative foundation of
> proof theoretic semantics utterly replacing foundation of model
> theoretic semantics.

That only demonstrates that proof theoretic semantics provides an
insufficient foundation.

-- 
Mikko

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#345717

Fromolcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
Date2026-04-28 07:18 -0500
Message-ID<10sq8i4$34r38$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#345707
On 4/28/2026 2:34 AM, Mikko wrote:
> On 28/04/2026 00:57, olcott wrote:
>> On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>> [ Followup-To: set ]
>>>
>>> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This sentence
>>>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>>
>>>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>>>      ...
>>>
>>>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>>>> terminating.
>>>
>>>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
>>>
>>>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
>>>
>>>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
>>>> graph looks like this:
>>>
>>>> (D1)
>>>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
>>>
>>> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of Gödel's
>>> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless directed
>>> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings by those
>>> lacking formal training in mathematics.
>>>
>>> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel, Escher, Bach,
>>> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published around 1978 or
>>> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central theme of the
>>> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
>>>
>>> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof.  Although not
>>> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
>>
>> After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that Gödel
>> himself says that his proof does have pathological self reference
>> you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here only
>> cares about denigration rather than truth.
>>
>> Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in the Gödel 
>> sentence
> 
> Prolog alone does not detect pathological self reference. 

Counter-factual. unify_with_occurs_check() <is> Prolog.

% This sentence is not true.
?- LP = not(true(LP)).
LP = not(true(LP)).
?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
false.

> It has
> certain standard predicates that makes such detection simpler
> than in typical programming languages(like Fortran) but the same
> detection is possible in those, too.
> 
> Gödel's sentence is a sentence in the first order Peano arithmetic.
> In that language there is no way to express a reference and in
> particular a self-reference. For the undecidability proof there is
> no need to interprete the theorem at all. In the proof of an Peano-
> unprovable arithmetic truth the usual arithmetic interpretation is
> relevant.
> 

In PTS if directly in PA there are no inference steps
that derive G directly in PA then G is ungrounded in
PA thus essentially meaningless in PA. Dag Prawitz
goes further and says that G is untrue in PA.

>> BEGIN:(Gödel 1931:39-41)...there is also a close
>> ...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which asserts its 
>> own unprovability. 15
>>
>> ...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which asserts its 
>> own unprovability. 15
>>
>> ...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which asserts its 
>> own unprovability. 15
>>
>> ...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which asserts its 
>> own unprovability. 15
>>
>> ...We are therefore confronted with a proposition which asserts its 
>> own unprovability. 15
> 
> Olcott's ilevel of understanding is illustrated by his habit to prove
> by repetition.
> 
>> https://www.researchgate.net/ 
>> publication/350789898_Prolog_detects_and_rejects_pathological_self_reference_in_the_Godel_sentence
>>
>>> And please note, this theorem is _TRUE_.  It has been proven rigorously
>>> and verified by millions of students and academics over a very long time
>>> period.
>>
>> Yet never once examined within the alternative foundation of
>> proof theoretic semantics utterly replacing foundation of model
>> theoretic semantics.
> 
> That only demonstrates that proof theoretic semantics provides an
> insufficient foundation.
> 


-- 
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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#345725

FromMikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi>
Date2026-04-29 09:37 +0300
Message-ID<10ss8vm$3n5dj$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#345717
On 28/04/2026 15:18, olcott wrote:
> On 4/28/2026 2:34 AM, Mikko wrote:
>> On 28/04/2026 00:57, olcott wrote:
>>> On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>> [ Followup-To: set ]
>>>>
>>>> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This sentence
>>>>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>>>>      ...
>>>>
>>>>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>>>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>>>>> terminating.
>>>>
>>>>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>>>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>>>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>>>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
>>>>
>>>>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
>>>>
>>>>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
>>>>> graph looks like this:
>>>>
>>>>> (D1)
>>>>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
>>>>
>>>> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of Gödel's
>>>> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless directed
>>>> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings by those
>>>> lacking formal training in mathematics.
>>>>
>>>> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel, Escher, Bach,
>>>> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published around 
>>>> 1978 or
>>>> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central theme of the
>>>> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
>>>>
>>>> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof.  Although not
>>>> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
>>>
>>> After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that Gödel
>>> himself says that his proof does have pathological self reference
>>> you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here only
>>> cares about denigration rather than truth.
>>>
>>> Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in the Gödel 
>>> sentence
>>
>> Prolog alone does not detect pathological self reference. 
> 
> Counter-factual. unify_with_occurs_check() <is> Prolog.

The predicate unify_with_occurs_check is not the same as Prolog. It is
just a small part of the standard language. It is one of those library
predicates that can be used as I said below.
> % This sentence is not true.
> ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
> LP = not(true(LP)).
> ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
> false.

Though it does not say why unify_with_occurs_check fails. The result
is the same for unify_with_occurs_check(5, not(true(LP))).

>> It has certain standard predicates

including unify_with_occurs_check

 >> that makes such detection simpler than in typical programming
 >> languages(like Fortran) but the same  detection is possible in
 >> those, too.
>> Gödel's sentence is a sentence in the first order Peano arithmetic.
>> In that language there is no way to express a reference and in
>> particular a self-reference. For the undecidability proof there is
>> no need to interprete the theorem at all. In the proof of an Peano-
>> unprovable arithmetic truth the usual arithmetic interpretation is
>> relevant.

> In PTS if directly in PA there are no inference steps
> that derive G directly in PA then G is ungrounded in
> PA thus essentially meaningless in PA.

Meaning is not relevant. That neither G nor its negation can be
derived in PA is enough to call PA incomplete. In addition Gödel
proved that ddding more postulates and perhaps other symbols
cannot yield a complete consistent theory.

-- 
Mikko

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#345737

Fromolcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
Date2026-04-29 09:17 -0500
Message-ID<10st3tt$3vb99$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#345725
On 4/29/2026 1:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
> On 28/04/2026 15:18, olcott wrote:
>> On 4/28/2026 2:34 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>> On 28/04/2026 00:57, olcott wrote:
>>>> On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>>> [ Followup-To: set ]
>>>>>
>>>>> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This sentence
>>>>>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>>>>>      ...
>>>>>
>>>>>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>>>>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>>>>>> terminating.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>>>>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>>>>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>>>>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
>>>>>> graph looks like this:
>>>>>
>>>>>> (D1)
>>>>>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
>>>>>
>>>>> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of Gödel's
>>>>> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless directed
>>>>> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings by those
>>>>> lacking formal training in mathematics.
>>>>>
>>>>> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel, Escher, 
>>>>> Bach,
>>>>> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published around 
>>>>> 1978 or
>>>>> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central theme of the
>>>>> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof.  Although not
>>>>> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
>>>>
>>>> After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that Gödel
>>>> himself says that his proof does have pathological self reference
>>>> you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here only
>>>> cares about denigration rather than truth.
>>>>
>>>> Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in the 
>>>> Gödel sentence
>>>
>>> Prolog alone does not detect pathological self reference. 
>>
>> Counter-factual. unify_with_occurs_check() <is> Prolog.
> 
> The predicate unify_with_occurs_check is not the same as Prolog. It is
> just a small part of the standard language. It is one of those library
> predicates that can be used as I said below.
>> % This sentence is not true.
>> ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
>> LP = not(true(LP)).
>> ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
>> false.

You can check it every which way and find that it fails
because LP does not have a finite set of inference steps
thus would be rejected by proof theoretic semantics as
semantically ungrounded.

If you don't give a rat's ass for this truth I am done
talking to you.

> 
> Though it does not say why unify_with_occurs_check fails. The result
> is the same for unify_with_occurs_check(5, not(true(LP))).
> 


>>> It has certain standard predicates
> 
> including unify_with_occurs_check
> 
>  >> that makes such detection simpler than in typical programming
>  >> languages(like Fortran) but the same  detection is possible in
>  >> those, too.
>>> Gödel's sentence is a sentence in the first order Peano arithmetic.
>>> In that language there is no way to express a reference and in
>>> particular a self-reference. For the undecidability proof there is
>>> no need to interprete the theorem at all. In the proof of an Peano-
>>> unprovable arithmetic truth the usual arithmetic interpretation is
>>> relevant.
> 
>> In PTS if directly in PA there are no inference steps
>> that derive G directly in PA then G is ungrounded in
>> PA thus essentially meaningless in PA.
> 
> Meaning is not relevant. 

Not being able to prove meaningless gibberish has
never been any actual limitation. The meaningless
gibberish should have always been rejected as bad input.

> That neither G nor its negation can be
> derived in PA is enough to call PA incomplete. In addition Gödel
> proved that ddding more postulates and perhaps other symbols
> cannot yield a complete consistent theory.
> 


-- 
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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#345740

FromMikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi>
Date2026-04-30 10:55 +0300
Message-ID<10sv1u7$gocn$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#345737
On 29/04/2026 17:17, olcott wrote:
> On 4/29/2026 1:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
>> On 28/04/2026 15:18, olcott wrote:
>>> On 4/28/2026 2:34 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>> On 28/04/2026 00:57, olcott wrote:
>>>>> On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>>>> [ Followup-To: set ]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This sentence
>>>>>>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>>>>>>      ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>>>>>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>>>>>>> terminating.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>>>>>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>>>>>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>>>>>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
>>>>>>> graph looks like this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (D1)
>>>>>>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of Gödel's
>>>>>> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless directed
>>>>>> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings by those
>>>>>> lacking formal training in mathematics.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel, Escher, 
>>>>>> Bach,
>>>>>> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published around 
>>>>>> 1978 or
>>>>>> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central theme of 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof.  Although 
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
>>>>>
>>>>> After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that Gödel
>>>>> himself says that his proof does have pathological self reference
>>>>> you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here only
>>>>> cares about denigration rather than truth.
>>>>>
>>>>> Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in the 
>>>>> Gödel sentence
>>>>
>>>> Prolog alone does not detect pathological self reference. 
>>>
>>> Counter-factual. unify_with_occurs_check() <is> Prolog.
>>
>> The predicate unify_with_occurs_check is not the same as Prolog. It is
>> just a small part of the standard language. It is one of those library
>> predicates that can be used as I said below.
>>> % This sentence is not true.
>>> ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
>>> LP = not(true(LP)).
>>> ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
>>> false.
> 
> You can check it every which way and find that it fails
> because LP does not have a finite set of inference steps
> thus would be rejected by proof theoretic semantics as
> semantically ungrounded.

You can check it ever whixh way and find that it says nothing
more than "false".

> If you don't give a rat's ass for this truth I am done
> talking to you.

We already know you don't care about this truth any more than
other truths.

>> Though it does not say why unify_with_occurs_check fails. The result
>> is the same for unify_with_occurs_check(5, not(true(LP))).
>>
> 
> 
>>>> It has certain standard predicates
>>
>> including unify_with_occurs_check
>>
>>  >> that makes such detection simpler than in typical programming
>>  >> languages(like Fortran) but the same  detection is possible in
>>  >> those, too.
>>>> Gödel's sentence is a sentence in the first order Peano arithmetic.
>>>> In that language there is no way to express a reference and in
>>>> particular a self-reference. For the undecidability proof there is
>>>> no need to interprete the theorem at all. In the proof of an Peano-
>>>> unprovable arithmetic truth the usual arithmetic interpretation is
>>>> relevant.
>>
>>> In PTS if directly in PA there are no inference steps
>>> that derive G directly in PA then G is ungrounded in
>>> PA thus essentially meaningless in PA.
>>
>> Meaning is not relevant. 
> 
> Not being able to prove meaningless gibberish has
> never been any actual limitation. The meaningless
> gibberish should have always been rejected as bad input.

Not to be able to give meaning to an arithmetic statement has
never been more than a personal limitation. Every natural number
is a natural number number and Gödel numbers are no exception.

>> That neither G nor its negation can be
>> derived in PA is enough to call PA incomplete. In addition Gödel
>> proved that ddding more postulates and perhaps other symbols
>> cannot yield a complete consistent theory.
Nice to see you don't disagree.

-- 
Mikko

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#345743

Fromolcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
Date2026-04-30 07:01 -0500
Message-ID<10svga9$l475$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#345740
On 4/30/2026 2:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
> On 29/04/2026 17:17, olcott wrote:
>> On 4/29/2026 1:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>> On 28/04/2026 15:18, olcott wrote:
>>>> On 4/28/2026 2:34 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>> On 28/04/2026 00:57, olcott wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>>>>> [ Followup-To: set ]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This sentence
>>>>>>>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>>>>>>>      ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>>>>>>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>>>>>>>> terminating.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>>>>>>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>>>>>>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>>>>>>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
>>>>>>>> graph looks like this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> (D1)
>>>>>>>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of 
>>>>>>> Gödel's
>>>>>>> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless directed
>>>>>>> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings by 
>>>>>>> those
>>>>>>> lacking formal training in mathematics.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel, Escher, 
>>>>>>> Bach,
>>>>>>> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published around 
>>>>>>> 1978 or
>>>>>>> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central theme 
>>>>>>> of the
>>>>>>> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof.  
>>>>>>> Although not
>>>>>>> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that Gödel
>>>>>> himself says that his proof does have pathological self reference
>>>>>> you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here only
>>>>>> cares about denigration rather than truth.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in the 
>>>>>> Gödel sentence
>>>>>
>>>>> Prolog alone does not detect pathological self reference. 
>>>>
>>>> Counter-factual. unify_with_occurs_check() <is> Prolog.
>>>
>>> The predicate unify_with_occurs_check is not the same as Prolog. It is
>>> just a small part of the standard language. It is one of those library
>>> predicates that can be used as I said below.
>>>> % This sentence is not true.
>>>> ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>> LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>> ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
>>>> false.
>>
>> You can check it every which way and find that it fails
>> because LP does not have a finite set of inference steps
>> thus would be rejected by proof theoretic semantics as
>> semantically ungrounded.
> 
> You can check it ever whixh way and find that it says nothing
> more than "false".
> 
>> If you don't give a rat's ass for this truth I am done
>> talking to you.
> 
> We already know you don't care about this truth any more than
> other truths.
> 

I just emphasized that because of the lack of truth
life on Earth will not survive and you said this was
off topic.

>>> Though it does not say why unify_with_occurs_check fails. The result
>>> is the same for unify_with_occurs_check(5, not(true(LP))).
>>>
>>
>>
>>>>> It has certain standard predicates
>>>
>>> including unify_with_occurs_check
>>>
>>>  >> that makes such detection simpler than in typical programming
>>>  >> languages(like Fortran) but the same  detection is possible in
>>>  >> those, too.
>>>>> Gödel's sentence is a sentence in the first order Peano arithmetic.
>>>>> In that language there is no way to express a reference and in
>>>>> particular a self-reference. For the undecidability proof there is
>>>>> no need to interprete the theorem at all. In the proof of an Peano-
>>>>> unprovable arithmetic truth the usual arithmetic interpretation is
>>>>> relevant.
>>>
>>>> In PTS if directly in PA there are no inference steps
>>>> that derive G directly in PA then G is ungrounded in
>>>> PA thus essentially meaningless in PA.
>>>
>>> Meaning is not relevant. 
>>
>> Not being able to prove meaningless gibberish has
>> never been any actual limitation. The meaningless
>> gibberish should have always been rejected as bad input.
> 
> Not to be able to give meaning to an arithmetic statement has
> never been more than a personal limitation. Every natural number
> is a natural number number and Gödel numbers are no exception.
> 

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by
Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as
an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed,
but semantically nonsensical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_furiously

2026 math has not nearly yet caught up with 1957 semantics.

>>> That neither G nor its negation can be
>>> derived in PA is enough to call PA incomplete. In addition Gödel
>>> proved that ddding more postulates and perhaps other symbols
>>> cannot yield a complete consistent theory.
> Nice to see you don't disagree.
> 


-- 
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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#345747

FromMikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi>
Date2026-05-01 11:24 +0300
Message-ID<10t1nv3$19eh3$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#345743
On 30/04/2026 15:01, olcott wrote:
> On 4/30/2026 2:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
>> On 29/04/2026 17:17, olcott wrote:
>>> On 4/29/2026 1:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>> On 28/04/2026 15:18, olcott wrote:
>>>>> On 4/28/2026 2:34 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 00:57, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>> On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>>>>>> [ Followup-To: set ]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This sentence
>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>      ...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>>>>>>>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>>>>>>>>> terminating.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>>>>>>>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>>>>>>>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>>>>>>>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
>>>>>>>>> graph looks like this:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> (D1)
>>>>>>>>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of 
>>>>>>>> Gödel's
>>>>>>>> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless 
>>>>>>>> directed
>>>>>>>> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings by 
>>>>>>>> those
>>>>>>>> lacking formal training in mathematics.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel, 
>>>>>>>> Escher, Bach,
>>>>>>>> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published around 
>>>>>>>> 1978 or
>>>>>>>> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central theme 
>>>>>>>> of the
>>>>>>>> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof. 
>>>>>>>> Although not
>>>>>>>> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that Gödel
>>>>>>> himself says that his proof does have pathological self reference
>>>>>>> you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here only
>>>>>>> cares about denigration rather than truth.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in the 
>>>>>>> Gödel sentence
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Prolog alone does not detect pathological self reference. 
>>>>>
>>>>> Counter-factual. unify_with_occurs_check() <is> Prolog.
>>>>
>>>> The predicate unify_with_occurs_check is not the same as Prolog. It is
>>>> just a small part of the standard language. It is one of those library
>>>> predicates that can be used as I said below.
>>>>> % This sentence is not true.
>>>>> ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>> LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>> ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
>>>>> false.
>>>
>>> You can check it every which way and find that it fails
>>> because LP does not have a finite set of inference steps
>>> thus would be rejected by proof theoretic semantics as
>>> semantically ungrounded.
>>
>> You can check it ever whixh way and find that it says nothing
>> more than "false".
>>
>>> If you don't give a rat's ass for this truth I am done
>>> talking to you.
>>
>> We already know you don't care about this truth any more than
>> other truths.
> 
> I just emphasized that because of the lack of truth
> life on Earth will not survive and you said this was
> off topic.

It is.

>>>> Though it does not say why unify_with_occurs_check fails. The result
>>>> is the same for unify_with_occurs_check(5, not(true(LP))).
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> It has certain standard predicates
>>>>
>>>> including unify_with_occurs_check
>>>>
>>>>  >> that makes such detection simpler than in typical programming
>>>>  >> languages(like Fortran) but the same  detection is possible in
>>>>  >> those, too.
>>>>>> Gödel's sentence is a sentence in the first order Peano arithmetic.
>>>>>> In that language there is no way to express a reference and in
>>>>>> particular a self-reference. For the undecidability proof there is
>>>>>> no need to interprete the theorem at all. In the proof of an Peano-
>>>>>> unprovable arithmetic truth the usual arithmetic interpretation is
>>>>>> relevant.
>>>>
>>>>> In PTS if directly in PA there are no inference steps
>>>>> that derive G directly in PA then G is ungrounded in
>>>>> PA thus essentially meaningless in PA.
>>>>
>>>> Meaning is not relevant. 
>>>
>>> Not being able to prove meaningless gibberish has
>>> never been any actual limitation. The meaningless
>>> gibberish should have always been rejected as bad input.
>>
>> Not to be able to give meaning to an arithmetic statement has
>> never been more than a personal limitation. Every natural number
>> is a natural number number and Gödel numbers are no exception.
> 
> Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by
> Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as
> an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed,
> but semantically nonsensical.

And not desiderable when discussing arithmetic. Therefore the formal
languages for logic and arithemtic are desigend so that that kind of
nonsense is not expressible.

-- 
Mikko

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#345752

Fromolcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
Date2026-05-01 09:54 -0500
Message-ID<10t2er2$1g7g3$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#345747
On 5/1/2026 3:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
> On 30/04/2026 15:01, olcott wrote:
>> On 4/30/2026 2:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>> On 29/04/2026 17:17, olcott wrote:
>>>> On 4/29/2026 1:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>> On 28/04/2026 15:18, olcott wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/28/2026 2:34 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 00:57, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>>>>>>> [ Followup-To: set ]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This sentence
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>      ...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>>>>>>>>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>>>>>>>>>> terminating.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>>>>>>>>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>>>>>>>>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>>>>>>>>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
>>>>>>>>>> graph looks like this:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> (D1)
>>>>>>>>>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of 
>>>>>>>>> Gödel's
>>>>>>>>> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless 
>>>>>>>>> directed
>>>>>>>>> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings by 
>>>>>>>>> those
>>>>>>>>> lacking formal training in mathematics.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel, 
>>>>>>>>> Escher, Bach,
>>>>>>>>> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published 
>>>>>>>>> around 1978 or
>>>>>>>>> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central theme 
>>>>>>>>> of the
>>>>>>>>> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof. 
>>>>>>>>> Although not
>>>>>>>>> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that Gödel
>>>>>>>> himself says that his proof does have pathological self reference
>>>>>>>> you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here only
>>>>>>>> cares about denigration rather than truth.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in the 
>>>>>>>> Gödel sentence
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Prolog alone does not detect pathological self reference. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Counter-factual. unify_with_occurs_check() <is> Prolog.
>>>>>
>>>>> The predicate unify_with_occurs_check is not the same as Prolog. It is
>>>>> just a small part of the standard language. It is one of those library
>>>>> predicates that can be used as I said below.
>>>>>> % This sentence is not true.
>>>>>> ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>> LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>> ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>> false.
>>>>
>>>> You can check it every which way and find that it fails
>>>> because LP does not have a finite set of inference steps
>>>> thus would be rejected by proof theoretic semantics as
>>>> semantically ungrounded.
>>>
>>> You can check it ever whixh way and find that it says nothing
>>> more than "false".
>>>
>>>> If you don't give a rat's ass for this truth I am done
>>>> talking to you.
>>>
>>> We already know you don't care about this truth any more than
>>> other truths.
>>
>> I just emphasized that because of the lack of truth
>> life on Earth will not survive and you said this was
>> off topic.
> 
> It is.
> 

Yu >>>>> Though it does not say why unify_with_occurs_check fails. The 
result
>>>>> is the same for unify_with_occurs_check(5, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>> It has certain standard predicates
>>>>>
>>>>> including unify_with_occurs_check
>>>>>
>>>>>  >> that makes such detection simpler than in typical programming
>>>>>  >> languages(like Fortran) but the same  detection is possible in
>>>>>  >> those, too.
>>>>>>> Gödel's sentence is a sentence in the first order Peano arithmetic.
>>>>>>> In that language there is no way to express a reference and in
>>>>>>> particular a self-reference. For the undecidability proof there is
>>>>>>> no need to interprete the theorem at all. In the proof of an Peano-
>>>>>>> unprovable arithmetic truth the usual arithmetic interpretation is
>>>>>>> relevant.
>>>>>
>>>>>> In PTS if directly in PA there are no inference steps
>>>>>> that derive G directly in PA then G is ungrounded in
>>>>>> PA thus essentially meaningless in PA.
>>>>>
>>>>> Meaning is not relevant. 
>>>>
>>>> Not being able to prove meaningless gibberish has
>>>> never been any actual limitation. The meaningless
>>>> gibberish should have always been rejected as bad input.
>>>
>>> Not to be able to give meaning to an arithmetic statement has
>>> never been more than a personal limitation. Every natural number
>>> is a natural number number and Gödel numbers are no exception.
>>
>> Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by
>> Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as
>> an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed,
>> but semantically nonsensical.
> 
> And not desiderable when discussing arithmetic. 

The most important thing about arithmetic is to get the
correct answer. When a gibberish nonsense expression of
PA is construed as meaningful just because its syntax is
correct this is a woefully stupid mistake. Because you are
a mindless robot utterly bereft of a living soul you will
never get this.

> Therefore the formal
> languages for logic and arithemtic are desigend so that that kind of
> nonsense is not expressible.
> 


-- 
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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#345754

FromRoss Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com>
Date2026-05-01 10:47 -0700
Message-ID<VnydnQf3KoTvemn0nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#345752
On 05/01/2026 07:54 AM, olcott wrote:
> On 5/1/2026 3:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
>> On 30/04/2026 15:01, olcott wrote:
>>> On 4/30/2026 2:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>> On 29/04/2026 17:17, olcott wrote:
>>>>> On 4/29/2026 1:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 15:18, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>> On 4/28/2026 2:34 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 00:57, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> [ Followup-To: set ]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This sentence
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>      ...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>>>>>>>>>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>>>>>>>>>>> terminating.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>>>>>>>>>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>>>>>>>>>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>>>>>>>>>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
>>>>>>>>>>> graph looks like this:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> (D1)
>>>>>>>>>>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of
>>>>>>>>>> Gödel's
>>>>>>>>>> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless
>>>>>>>>>> directed
>>>>>>>>>> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings
>>>>>>>>>> by those
>>>>>>>>>> lacking formal training in mathematics.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel,
>>>>>>>>>> Escher, Bach,
>>>>>>>>>> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published
>>>>>>>>>> around 1978 or
>>>>>>>>>> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central
>>>>>>>>>> theme of the
>>>>>>>>>> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof.
>>>>>>>>>> Although not
>>>>>>>>>> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that Gödel
>>>>>>>>> himself says that his proof does have pathological self reference
>>>>>>>>> you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here only
>>>>>>>>> cares about denigration rather than truth.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in the
>>>>>>>>> Gödel sentence
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Prolog alone does not detect pathological self reference.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Counter-factual. unify_with_occurs_check() <is> Prolog.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The predicate unify_with_occurs_check is not the same as Prolog.
>>>>>> It is
>>>>>> just a small part of the standard language. It is one of those
>>>>>> library
>>>>>> predicates that can be used as I said below.
>>>>>>> % This sentence is not true.
>>>>>>> ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>>> LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>>> ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>>> false.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can check it every which way and find that it fails
>>>>> because LP does not have a finite set of inference steps
>>>>> thus would be rejected by proof theoretic semantics as
>>>>> semantically ungrounded.
>>>>
>>>> You can check it ever whixh way and find that it says nothing
>>>> more than "false".
>>>>
>>>>> If you don't give a rat's ass for this truth I am done
>>>>> talking to you.
>>>>
>>>> We already know you don't care about this truth any more than
>>>> other truths.
>>>
>>> I just emphasized that because of the lack of truth
>>> life on Earth will not survive and you said this was
>>> off topic.
>>
>> It is.
>>
>
> Yu >>>>> Though it does not say why unify_with_occurs_check fails. The
> result
>>>>>> is the same for unify_with_occurs_check(5, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It has certain standard predicates
>>>>>>
>>>>>> including unify_with_occurs_check
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  >> that makes such detection simpler than in typical programming
>>>>>>  >> languages(like Fortran) but the same  detection is possible in
>>>>>>  >> those, too.
>>>>>>>> Gödel's sentence is a sentence in the first order Peano arithmetic.
>>>>>>>> In that language there is no way to express a reference and in
>>>>>>>> particular a self-reference. For the undecidability proof there is
>>>>>>>> no need to interprete the theorem at all. In the proof of an Peano-
>>>>>>>> unprovable arithmetic truth the usual arithmetic interpretation is
>>>>>>>> relevant.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In PTS if directly in PA there are no inference steps
>>>>>>> that derive G directly in PA then G is ungrounded in
>>>>>>> PA thus essentially meaningless in PA.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Meaning is not relevant.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not being able to prove meaningless gibberish has
>>>>> never been any actual limitation. The meaningless
>>>>> gibberish should have always been rejected as bad input.
>>>>
>>>> Not to be able to give meaning to an arithmetic statement has
>>>> never been more than a personal limitation. Every natural number
>>>> is a natural number number and Gödel numbers are no exception.
>>>
>>> Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by
>>> Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as
>>> an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed,
>>> but semantically nonsensical.
>>
>> And not desiderable when discussing arithmetic.
>
> The most important thing about arithmetic is to get the
> correct answer. When a gibberish nonsense expression of
> PA is construed as meaningful just because its syntax is
> correct this is a woefully stupid mistake. Because you are
> a mindless robot utterly bereft of a living soul you will
> never get this.
>
>> Therefore the formal
>> languages for logic and arithemtic are desigend so that that kind of
>> nonsense is not expressible.
>>
>
>


In my theory of light and color I actually make an account where
there's "green-shift" and there really is "colorless green" or
as about "mono-green-shift", since something like Ogden Rood's
"Modern Chromatics".

One imagines "colorless green" and "sleep furiously" came out
of an early generative program and since multi-pass parsers
greatly modify the considerations of usual formal methods and
right linear automatons perhaps equipped with look-ahead.
Multi-pass parsers are an entirely different model of computation,
and natural languages here have Tesniere grammars.

So, maybe he just didn't get it, it's "grue" and "bleen",
about Nelson Goodman's "Riddle of Induction". Absent a
modal temporal relevance logic that's quite weak.

Anyways "sleep furiously" simply reflects on that the brain
works rather continuously on background problems, the digestion
and the internalization, for usual accounts of problems best
worked by taking a nap.


Chomsky lost a lot of cachet since the whole
hedonism/corruption/blackmail bit. Anyways
also the account of one-pass small-stack grammar's
is not according to the usual account of natural
language the parsing.

So, natural language grammars in their complexity
and the flow in the accidence and adjectival force
are much more about Tesniere and dependency-clause
grammars as students in English learned to diagram
sentences about the same time as mathematical "proof"
was introduced.





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#345755

FromRoss Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com>
Date2026-05-01 11:01 -0700
Message-ID<XC-dnV_HiP0Fd2n0nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#345754
On 05/01/2026 10:47 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> On 05/01/2026 07:54 AM, olcott wrote:
>> On 5/1/2026 3:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>> On 30/04/2026 15:01, olcott wrote:
>>>> On 4/30/2026 2:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>> On 29/04/2026 17:17, olcott wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/29/2026 1:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 15:18, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 4/28/2026 2:34 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 00:57, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> [ Followup-To: set ]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sentence
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>      ...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>>>>>>>>>>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>>>>>>>>>>>> terminating.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>>>>>>>>>>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>>>>>>>>>>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>>>>>>>>>>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
>>>>>>>>>>>> graph looks like this:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> (D1)
>>>>>>>>>>>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of
>>>>>>>>>>> Gödel's
>>>>>>>>>>> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless
>>>>>>>>>>> directed
>>>>>>>>>>> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings
>>>>>>>>>>> by those
>>>>>>>>>>> lacking formal training in mathematics.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel,
>>>>>>>>>>> Escher, Bach,
>>>>>>>>>>> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published
>>>>>>>>>>> around 1978 or
>>>>>>>>>>> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central
>>>>>>>>>>> theme of the
>>>>>>>>>>> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof.
>>>>>>>>>>> Although not
>>>>>>>>>>> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that Gödel
>>>>>>>>>> himself says that his proof does have pathological self reference
>>>>>>>>>> you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here only
>>>>>>>>>> cares about denigration rather than truth.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in the
>>>>>>>>>> Gödel sentence
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Prolog alone does not detect pathological self reference.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Counter-factual. unify_with_occurs_check() <is> Prolog.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The predicate unify_with_occurs_check is not the same as Prolog.
>>>>>>> It is
>>>>>>> just a small part of the standard language. It is one of those
>>>>>>> library
>>>>>>> predicates that can be used as I said below.
>>>>>>>> % This sentence is not true.
>>>>>>>> ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>>>> LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>>>> ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>>>> false.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can check it every which way and find that it fails
>>>>>> because LP does not have a finite set of inference steps
>>>>>> thus would be rejected by proof theoretic semantics as
>>>>>> semantically ungrounded.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can check it ever whixh way and find that it says nothing
>>>>> more than "false".
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you don't give a rat's ass for this truth I am done
>>>>>> talking to you.
>>>>>
>>>>> We already know you don't care about this truth any more than
>>>>> other truths.
>>>>
>>>> I just emphasized that because of the lack of truth
>>>> life on Earth will not survive and you said this was
>>>> off topic.
>>>
>>> It is.
>>>
>>
>> Yu >>>>> Though it does not say why unify_with_occurs_check fails. The
>> result
>>>>>>> is the same for unify_with_occurs_check(5, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It has certain standard predicates
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> including unify_with_occurs_check
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  >> that makes such detection simpler than in typical programming
>>>>>>>  >> languages(like Fortran) but the same  detection is possible in
>>>>>>>  >> those, too.
>>>>>>>>> Gödel's sentence is a sentence in the first order Peano
>>>>>>>>> arithmetic.
>>>>>>>>> In that language there is no way to express a reference and in
>>>>>>>>> particular a self-reference. For the undecidability proof there is
>>>>>>>>> no need to interprete the theorem at all. In the proof of an
>>>>>>>>> Peano-
>>>>>>>>> unprovable arithmetic truth the usual arithmetic interpretation is
>>>>>>>>> relevant.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In PTS if directly in PA there are no inference steps
>>>>>>>> that derive G directly in PA then G is ungrounded in
>>>>>>>> PA thus essentially meaningless in PA.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Meaning is not relevant.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not being able to prove meaningless gibberish has
>>>>>> never been any actual limitation. The meaningless
>>>>>> gibberish should have always been rejected as bad input.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not to be able to give meaning to an arithmetic statement has
>>>>> never been more than a personal limitation. Every natural number
>>>>> is a natural number number and Gödel numbers are no exception.
>>>>
>>>> Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by
>>>> Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as
>>>> an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed,
>>>> but semantically nonsensical.
>>>
>>> And not desiderable when discussing arithmetic.
>>
>> The most important thing about arithmetic is to get the
>> correct answer. When a gibberish nonsense expression of
>> PA is construed as meaningful just because its syntax is
>> correct this is a woefully stupid mistake. Because you are
>> a mindless robot utterly bereft of a living soul you will
>> never get this.
>>
>>> Therefore the formal
>>> languages for logic and arithemtic are desigend so that that kind of
>>> nonsense is not expressible.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> In my theory of light and color I actually make an account where
> there's "green-shift" and there really is "colorless green" or
> as about "mono-green-shift", since something like Ogden Rood's
> "Modern Chromatics".
>
> One imagines "colorless green" and "sleep furiously" came out
> of an early generative program and since multi-pass parsers
> greatly modify the considerations of usual formal methods and
> right linear automatons perhaps equipped with look-ahead.
> Multi-pass parsers are an entirely different model of computation,
> and natural languages here have Tesniere grammars.
>
> So, maybe he just didn't get it, it's "grue" and "bleen",
> about Nelson Goodman's "Riddle of Induction". Absent a
> modal temporal relevance logic that's quite weak.
>
> Anyways "sleep furiously" simply reflects on that the brain
> works rather continuously on background problems, the digestion
> and the internalization, for usual accounts of problems best
> worked by taking a nap.
>
>
> Chomsky lost a lot of cachet since the whole
> hedonism/corruption/blackmail bit. Anyways
> also the account of one-pass small-stack grammar's
> is not according to the usual account of natural
> language the parsing.
>
> So, natural language grammars in their complexity
> and the flow in the accidence and adjectival force
> are much more about Tesniere and dependency-clause
> grammars as students in English learned to diagram
> sentences about the same time as mathematical "proof"
> was introduced.
>
>
>
>
>
>


Parsing is pretty natural if you imagine, for example,
putting "not" in front of anything, and then, of course,
that "that" can be repeated indefinitely anywhere,
that that that that that that that that that that that
it is so.




P.S., while I mostly sort of pity Chomsky, or find it pitiful,
I sort of despise H. Putnam, as snide, and Pinker, as a dupe.

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#345758

Fromolcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
Date2026-05-01 14:35 -0500
Message-ID<10t2v9c$1lfpq$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#345754
On 5/1/2026 12:47 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> On 05/01/2026 07:54 AM, olcott wrote:
>> On 5/1/2026 3:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>> On 30/04/2026 15:01, olcott wrote:
>>>> On 4/30/2026 2:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>> On 29/04/2026 17:17, olcott wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/29/2026 1:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 15:18, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 4/28/2026 2:34 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 00:57, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> [ Followup-To: set ]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sentence
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>      ...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>>>>>>>>>>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>>>>>>>>>>>> terminating.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>>>>>>>>>>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>>>>>>>>>>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>>>>>>>>>>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
>>>>>>>>>>>> graph looks like this:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> (D1)
>>>>>>>>>>>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of
>>>>>>>>>>> Gödel's
>>>>>>>>>>> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless
>>>>>>>>>>> directed
>>>>>>>>>>> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings
>>>>>>>>>>> by those
>>>>>>>>>>> lacking formal training in mathematics.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel,
>>>>>>>>>>> Escher, Bach,
>>>>>>>>>>> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published
>>>>>>>>>>> around 1978 or
>>>>>>>>>>> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central
>>>>>>>>>>> theme of the
>>>>>>>>>>> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof.
>>>>>>>>>>> Although not
>>>>>>>>>>> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that Gödel
>>>>>>>>>> himself says that his proof does have pathological self reference
>>>>>>>>>> you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here only
>>>>>>>>>> cares about denigration rather than truth.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in the
>>>>>>>>>> Gödel sentence
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Prolog alone does not detect pathological self reference.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Counter-factual. unify_with_occurs_check() <is> Prolog.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The predicate unify_with_occurs_check is not the same as Prolog.
>>>>>>> It is
>>>>>>> just a small part of the standard language. It is one of those
>>>>>>> library
>>>>>>> predicates that can be used as I said below.
>>>>>>>> % This sentence is not true.
>>>>>>>> ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>>>> LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>>>> ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>>>> false.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can check it every which way and find that it fails
>>>>>> because LP does not have a finite set of inference steps
>>>>>> thus would be rejected by proof theoretic semantics as
>>>>>> semantically ungrounded.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can check it ever whixh way and find that it says nothing
>>>>> more than "false".
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you don't give a rat's ass for this truth I am done
>>>>>> talking to you.
>>>>>
>>>>> We already know you don't care about this truth any more than
>>>>> other truths.
>>>>
>>>> I just emphasized that because of the lack of truth
>>>> life on Earth will not survive and you said this was
>>>> off topic.
>>>
>>> It is.
>>>
>>
>> Yu >>>>> Though it does not say why unify_with_occurs_check fails. The
>> result
>>>>>>> is the same for unify_with_occurs_check(5, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It has certain standard predicates
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> including unify_with_occurs_check
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  >> that makes such detection simpler than in typical programming
>>>>>>>  >> languages(like Fortran) but the same  detection is possible in
>>>>>>>  >> those, too.
>>>>>>>>> Gödel's sentence is a sentence in the first order Peano 
>>>>>>>>> arithmetic.
>>>>>>>>> In that language there is no way to express a reference and in
>>>>>>>>> particular a self-reference. For the undecidability proof there is
>>>>>>>>> no need to interprete the theorem at all. In the proof of an 
>>>>>>>>> Peano-
>>>>>>>>> unprovable arithmetic truth the usual arithmetic interpretation is
>>>>>>>>> relevant.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In PTS if directly in PA there are no inference steps
>>>>>>>> that derive G directly in PA then G is ungrounded in
>>>>>>>> PA thus essentially meaningless in PA.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Meaning is not relevant.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not being able to prove meaningless gibberish has
>>>>>> never been any actual limitation. The meaningless
>>>>>> gibberish should have always been rejected as bad input.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not to be able to give meaning to an arithmetic statement has
>>>>> never been more than a personal limitation. Every natural number
>>>>> is a natural number number and Gödel numbers are no exception.
>>>>
>>>> Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by
>>>> Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as
>>>> an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed,
>>>> but semantically nonsensical.
>>>
>>> And not desiderable when discussing arithmetic.
>>
>> The most important thing about arithmetic is to get the
>> correct answer. When a gibberish nonsense expression of
>> PA is construed as meaningful just because its syntax is
>> correct this is a woefully stupid mistake. Because you are
>> a mindless robot utterly bereft of a living soul you will
>> never get this.
>>
>>> Therefore the formal
>>> languages for logic and arithemtic are desigend so that that kind of
>>> nonsense is not expressible.
>>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> In my theory of light and color I actually make an account where
> there's "green-shift" and there really is "colorless green" or
> as about "mono-green-shift", since something like Ogden Rood's
> "Modern Chromatics".
> 
> One imagines "colorless green" and "sleep furiously" came out
> of an early generative program and since multi-pass parsers
> greatly modify the considerations of usual formal methods and
> right linear automatons perhaps equipped with look-ahead.
> Multi-pass parsers are an entirely different model of computation,
> and natural languages here have Tesniere grammars.
> 
> So, maybe he just didn't get it, it's "grue" and "bleen",
> about Nelson Goodman's "Riddle of Induction". Absent a
> modal temporal relevance logic that's quite weak.
> 
> Anyways "sleep furiously" simply reflects on that the brain
> works rather continuously on background problems, the digestion
> and the internalization, for usual accounts of problems best
> worked by taking a nap.
> 
> 
> Chomsky lost a lot of cachet since the whole
> hedonism/corruption/blackmail bit. Anyways
> also the account of one-pass small-stack grammar's
> is not according to the usual account of natural
> language the parsing.
> 
> So, natural language grammars in their complexity
> and the flow in the accidence and adjectival force
> are much more about Tesniere and dependency-clause
> grammars as students in English learned to diagram
> sentences about the same time as mathematical "proof"
> was introduced.
> 
> 

It seems that you are trying to get away with pretending
that you fail to understand the notion of a type mismatch
error.

Kurt Gödel in his 1944 Russell's mathematical logic gave the following 
definition of the "theory of simple types" in a footnote:

By the theory of simple types I mean the doctrine which says that the 
objects of thought (or, in another interpretation, the symbolic 
expressions) are divided into types, namely: individuals, properties of 
individuals, relations between individuals, properties of such 
relations, etc. (with a similar hierarchy for extensions), and that 
sentences of the form: " a has the property φ ", " b bears the relation 
R to c ", etc. are meaningless, if a, b, c, R, φ are not of types 
fitting together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_type_theory#G%C3%B6del_1944

-- 
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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#345760

FromRoss Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com>
Date2026-05-01 12:54 -0700
Message-ID<nd6dnYlmPc-QmGj0nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#345758
On 05/01/2026 12:35 PM, olcott wrote:
> On 5/1/2026 12:47 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> On 05/01/2026 07:54 AM, olcott wrote:
>>> On 5/1/2026 3:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>> On 30/04/2026 15:01, olcott wrote:
>>>>> On 4/30/2026 2:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>> On 29/04/2026 17:17, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>> On 4/29/2026 1:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 15:18, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 4/28/2026 2:34 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 00:57, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> [ Followup-To: set ]
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sentence
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>      ...
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> terminating.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
>>>>>>>>>>>>> graph looks like this:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (D1)
>>>>>>>>>>>>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of
>>>>>>>>>>>> Gödel's
>>>>>>>>>>>> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless
>>>>>>>>>>>> directed
>>>>>>>>>>>> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings
>>>>>>>>>>>> by those
>>>>>>>>>>>> lacking formal training in mathematics.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel,
>>>>>>>>>>>> Escher, Bach,
>>>>>>>>>>>> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published
>>>>>>>>>>>> around 1978 or
>>>>>>>>>>>> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central
>>>>>>>>>>>> theme of the
>>>>>>>>>>>> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Although not
>>>>>>>>>>>> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that Gödel
>>>>>>>>>>> himself says that his proof does have pathological self
>>>>>>>>>>> reference
>>>>>>>>>>> you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here only
>>>>>>>>>>> cares about denigration rather than truth.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in the
>>>>>>>>>>> Gödel sentence
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Prolog alone does not detect pathological self reference.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Counter-factual. unify_with_occurs_check() <is> Prolog.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The predicate unify_with_occurs_check is not the same as Prolog.
>>>>>>>> It is
>>>>>>>> just a small part of the standard language. It is one of those
>>>>>>>> library
>>>>>>>> predicates that can be used as I said below.
>>>>>>>>> % This sentence is not true.
>>>>>>>>> ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>>>>> LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>>>>> ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>>>>> false.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You can check it every which way and find that it fails
>>>>>>> because LP does not have a finite set of inference steps
>>>>>>> thus would be rejected by proof theoretic semantics as
>>>>>>> semantically ungrounded.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can check it ever whixh way and find that it says nothing
>>>>>> more than "false".
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you don't give a rat's ass for this truth I am done
>>>>>>> talking to you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We already know you don't care about this truth any more than
>>>>>> other truths.
>>>>>
>>>>> I just emphasized that because of the lack of truth
>>>>> life on Earth will not survive and you said this was
>>>>> off topic.
>>>>
>>>> It is.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yu >>>>> Though it does not say why unify_with_occurs_check fails. The
>>> result
>>>>>>>> is the same for unify_with_occurs_check(5, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> It has certain standard predicates
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> including unify_with_occurs_check
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  >> that makes such detection simpler than in typical programming
>>>>>>>>  >> languages(like Fortran) but the same  detection is possible in
>>>>>>>>  >> those, too.
>>>>>>>>>> Gödel's sentence is a sentence in the first order Peano
>>>>>>>>>> arithmetic.
>>>>>>>>>> In that language there is no way to express a reference and in
>>>>>>>>>> particular a self-reference. For the undecidability proof
>>>>>>>>>> there is
>>>>>>>>>> no need to interprete the theorem at all. In the proof of an
>>>>>>>>>> Peano-
>>>>>>>>>> unprovable arithmetic truth the usual arithmetic
>>>>>>>>>> interpretation is
>>>>>>>>>> relevant.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> In PTS if directly in PA there are no inference steps
>>>>>>>>> that derive G directly in PA then G is ungrounded in
>>>>>>>>> PA thus essentially meaningless in PA.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Meaning is not relevant.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not being able to prove meaningless gibberish has
>>>>>>> never been any actual limitation. The meaningless
>>>>>>> gibberish should have always been rejected as bad input.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not to be able to give meaning to an arithmetic statement has
>>>>>> never been more than a personal limitation. Every natural number
>>>>>> is a natural number number and Gödel numbers are no exception.
>>>>>
>>>>> Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by
>>>>> Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as
>>>>> an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed,
>>>>> but semantically nonsensical.
>>>>
>>>> And not desiderable when discussing arithmetic.
>>>
>>> The most important thing about arithmetic is to get the
>>> correct answer. When a gibberish nonsense expression of
>>> PA is construed as meaningful just because its syntax is
>>> correct this is a woefully stupid mistake. Because you are
>>> a mindless robot utterly bereft of a living soul you will
>>> never get this.
>>>
>>>> Therefore the formal
>>>> languages for logic and arithemtic are desigend so that that kind of
>>>> nonsense is not expressible.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> In my theory of light and color I actually make an account where
>> there's "green-shift" and there really is "colorless green" or
>> as about "mono-green-shift", since something like Ogden Rood's
>> "Modern Chromatics".
>>
>> One imagines "colorless green" and "sleep furiously" came out
>> of an early generative program and since multi-pass parsers
>> greatly modify the considerations of usual formal methods and
>> right linear automatons perhaps equipped with look-ahead.
>> Multi-pass parsers are an entirely different model of computation,
>> and natural languages here have Tesniere grammars.
>>
>> So, maybe he just didn't get it, it's "grue" and "bleen",
>> about Nelson Goodman's "Riddle of Induction". Absent a
>> modal temporal relevance logic that's quite weak.
>>
>> Anyways "sleep furiously" simply reflects on that the brain
>> works rather continuously on background problems, the digestion
>> and the internalization, for usual accounts of problems best
>> worked by taking a nap.
>>
>>
>> Chomsky lost a lot of cachet since the whole
>> hedonism/corruption/blackmail bit. Anyways
>> also the account of one-pass small-stack grammar's
>> is not according to the usual account of natural
>> language the parsing.
>>
>> So, natural language grammars in their complexity
>> and the flow in the accidence and adjectival force
>> are much more about Tesniere and dependency-clause
>> grammars as students in English learned to diagram
>> sentences about the same time as mathematical "proof"
>> was introduced.
>>
>>
>
> It seems that you are trying to get away with pretending
> that you fail to understand the notion of a type mismatch
> error.
>
> Kurt Gödel in his 1944 Russell's mathematical logic gave the following
> definition of the "theory of simple types" in a footnote:
>
> By the theory of simple types I mean the doctrine which says that the
> objects of thought (or, in another interpretation, the symbolic
> expressions) are divided into types, namely: individuals, properties of
> individuals, relations between individuals, properties of such
> relations, etc. (with a similar hierarchy for extensions), and that
> sentences of the form: " a has the property φ ", " b bears the relation
> R to c ", etc. are meaningless, if a, b, c, R, φ are not of types
> fitting together.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_type_theory#G%C3%B6del_1944
>

No, I'm just not ignorant of the lack of class/set distinction.

About the transfer principle, and about accounts where
something that is so for each apiece is so for all together,
there's one where there's a non-standard countable model of
integer with a point at infinity naturally simply since
quantification also makes it so, like Russell's paradox,
that Goedel's first object outside the theory would be.

Then, usually "Peirce" or "Pierce" are better sources for type theory,
though Russell whipped up ramified and stratified types in set theory.

https://iep.utm.edu/peir-log/
https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/


Russell comes across as an erudite logician and schooled philosopher,
yet though plenty of his accounts see him as a self-aggrandizing
free-loader.

Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that, ....

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/set+theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_(set_theory)

Anyways Goedel's world of theorems of his arithmetization is
the same before and after second arithmetization, maybe you'd be
happier instead arguing against his completeness results.



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#345761

Fromolcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
Date2026-05-01 15:36 -0500
Message-ID<10t32sj$1mhk1$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#345760
On 5/1/2026 2:54 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> On 05/01/2026 12:35 PM, olcott wrote:
>> On 5/1/2026 12:47 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>> On 05/01/2026 07:54 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>> On 5/1/2026 3:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>> On 30/04/2026 15:01, olcott wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/30/2026 2:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>> On 29/04/2026 17:17, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 4/29/2026 1:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 15:18, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 4/28/2026 2:34 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 00:57, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> [ Followup-To: set ]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sentence
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>      ...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> terminating.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> graph looks like this:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (D1)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gödel's
>>>>>>>>>>>>> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless
>>>>>>>>>>>>> directed
>>>>>>>>>>>>> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings
>>>>>>>>>>>>> by those
>>>>>>>>>>>>> lacking formal training in mathematics.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Escher, Bach,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published
>>>>>>>>>>>>> around 1978 or
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central
>>>>>>>>>>>>> theme of the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Although not
>>>>>>>>>>>>> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that Gödel
>>>>>>>>>>>> himself says that his proof does have pathological self
>>>>>>>>>>>> reference
>>>>>>>>>>>> you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here 
>>>>>>>>>>>> only
>>>>>>>>>>>> cares about denigration rather than truth.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in the
>>>>>>>>>>>> Gödel sentence
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Prolog alone does not detect pathological self reference.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Counter-factual. unify_with_occurs_check() <is> Prolog.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The predicate unify_with_occurs_check is not the same as Prolog.
>>>>>>>>> It is
>>>>>>>>> just a small part of the standard language. It is one of those
>>>>>>>>> library
>>>>>>>>> predicates that can be used as I said below.
>>>>>>>>>> % This sentence is not true.
>>>>>>>>>> ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>>>>>> LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>>>>>> ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>>>>>> false.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You can check it every which way and find that it fails
>>>>>>>> because LP does not have a finite set of inference steps
>>>>>>>> thus would be rejected by proof theoretic semantics as
>>>>>>>> semantically ungrounded.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You can check it ever whixh way and find that it says nothing
>>>>>>> more than "false".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If you don't give a rat's ass for this truth I am done
>>>>>>>> talking to you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We already know you don't care about this truth any more than
>>>>>>> other truths.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just emphasized that because of the lack of truth
>>>>>> life on Earth will not survive and you said this was
>>>>>> off topic.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yu >>>>> Though it does not say why unify_with_occurs_check fails. The
>>>> result
>>>>>>>>> is the same for unify_with_occurs_check(5, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> It has certain standard predicates
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> including unify_with_occurs_check
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  >> that makes such detection simpler than in typical programming
>>>>>>>>>  >> languages(like Fortran) but the same  detection is possible in
>>>>>>>>>  >> those, too.
>>>>>>>>>>> Gödel's sentence is a sentence in the first order Peano
>>>>>>>>>>> arithmetic.
>>>>>>>>>>> In that language there is no way to express a reference and in
>>>>>>>>>>> particular a self-reference. For the undecidability proof
>>>>>>>>>>> there is
>>>>>>>>>>> no need to interprete the theorem at all. In the proof of an
>>>>>>>>>>> Peano-
>>>>>>>>>>> unprovable arithmetic truth the usual arithmetic
>>>>>>>>>>> interpretation is
>>>>>>>>>>> relevant.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> In PTS if directly in PA there are no inference steps
>>>>>>>>>> that derive G directly in PA then G is ungrounded in
>>>>>>>>>> PA thus essentially meaningless in PA.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Meaning is not relevant.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Not being able to prove meaningless gibberish has
>>>>>>>> never been any actual limitation. The meaningless
>>>>>>>> gibberish should have always been rejected as bad input.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not to be able to give meaning to an arithmetic statement has
>>>>>>> never been more than a personal limitation. Every natural number
>>>>>>> is a natural number number and Gödel numbers are no exception.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by
>>>>>> Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as
>>>>>> an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed,
>>>>>> but semantically nonsensical.
>>>>>
>>>>> And not desiderable when discussing arithmetic.
>>>>
>>>> The most important thing about arithmetic is to get the
>>>> correct answer. When a gibberish nonsense expression of
>>>> PA is construed as meaningful just because its syntax is
>>>> correct this is a woefully stupid mistake. Because you are
>>>> a mindless robot utterly bereft of a living soul you will
>>>> never get this.
>>>>
>>>>> Therefore the formal
>>>>> languages for logic and arithemtic are desigend so that that kind of
>>>>> nonsense is not expressible.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In my theory of light and color I actually make an account where
>>> there's "green-shift" and there really is "colorless green" or
>>> as about "mono-green-shift", since something like Ogden Rood's
>>> "Modern Chromatics".
>>>
>>> One imagines "colorless green" and "sleep furiously" came out
>>> of an early generative program and since multi-pass parsers
>>> greatly modify the considerations of usual formal methods and
>>> right linear automatons perhaps equipped with look-ahead.
>>> Multi-pass parsers are an entirely different model of computation,
>>> and natural languages here have Tesniere grammars.
>>>
>>> So, maybe he just didn't get it, it's "grue" and "bleen",
>>> about Nelson Goodman's "Riddle of Induction". Absent a
>>> modal temporal relevance logic that's quite weak.
>>>
>>> Anyways "sleep furiously" simply reflects on that the brain
>>> works rather continuously on background problems, the digestion
>>> and the internalization, for usual accounts of problems best
>>> worked by taking a nap.
>>>
>>>
>>> Chomsky lost a lot of cachet since the whole
>>> hedonism/corruption/blackmail bit. Anyways
>>> also the account of one-pass small-stack grammar's
>>> is not according to the usual account of natural
>>> language the parsing.
>>>
>>> So, natural language grammars in their complexity
>>> and the flow in the accidence and adjectival force
>>> are much more about Tesniere and dependency-clause
>>> grammars as students in English learned to diagram
>>> sentences about the same time as mathematical "proof"
>>> was introduced.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It seems that you are trying to get away with pretending
>> that you fail to understand the notion of a type mismatch
>> error.
>>
>> Kurt Gödel in his 1944 Russell's mathematical logic gave the following
>> definition of the "theory of simple types" in a footnote:
>>
>> By the theory of simple types I mean the doctrine which says that the
>> objects of thought (or, in another interpretation, the symbolic
>> expressions) are divided into types, namely: individuals, properties of
>> individuals, relations between individuals, properties of such
>> relations, etc. (with a similar hierarchy for extensions), and that
>> sentences of the form: " a has the property φ ", " b bears the relation
>> R to c ", etc. are meaningless, if a, b, c, R, φ are not of types
>> fitting together.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_type_theory#G%C3%B6del_1944
>>
> 
> No, I'm just not ignorant of the lack of class/set distinction.
> 
> About the transfer principle, and about accounts where
> something that is so for each apiece is so for all together,
> there's one where there's a non-standard countable model of
> integer with a point at infinity naturally simply since
> quantification also makes it so, like Russell's paradox,
> that Goedel's first object outside the theory would be.
> 

Within completely coherent semantics the notion of
undecidability cannot exist. Model Theoretic Semantics
is incoherent. Proof Theoretic Semantics is coherent.

> Then, usually "Peirce" or "Pierce" are better sources for type theory,
> though Russell whipped up ramified and stratified types in set theory.
> 
> https://iep.utm.edu/peir-log/
> https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/
> 
> 
> Russell comes across as an erudite logician and schooled philosopher,
> yet though plenty of his accounts see him as a self-aggrandizing
> free-loader.
> 
> Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that, ....
> 
> https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/set+theory
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_(set_theory)
> 
> Anyways Goedel's world of theorems of his arithmetization is
> the same before and after second arithmetization, maybe you'd be
> happier instead arguing against his completeness results.
> 
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Copyright 2026 Olcott

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"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.

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#347223

FromTristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk>
Date2026-06-30 13:14 +0100
Message-ID<1120bv2$12kma$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#345761
On 01/05/2026 21:36, olcott wrote:
> Within completely coherent semantics the notion of
> undecidability cannot exist. Model Theoretic Semantics
> is incoherent. Proof Theoretic Semantics is coherent.

Then Proof Theoretic Semantics seems unnecessarily restricted. Is there
a Deduction Theoretic Semantics without that limitation and does it
subsume (by embedding, for example) the Model Theoretic Semantics and
the Proof Theoretic Semantics?

-- 
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verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
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#345762

Fromolcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
Date2026-05-01 15:41 -0500
Message-ID<10t3360$1mhk1$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#345760
On 5/1/2026 2:54 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> On 05/01/2026 12:35 PM, olcott wrote:
>> On 5/1/2026 12:47 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>> On 05/01/2026 07:54 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>> On 5/1/2026 3:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>> On 30/04/2026 15:01, olcott wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/30/2026 2:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>> On 29/04/2026 17:17, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 4/29/2026 1:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 15:18, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 4/28/2026 2:34 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 00:57, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> [ Followup-To: set ]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sentence
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>      ...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> terminating.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> graph looks like this:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (D1)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gödel's
>>>>>>>>>>>>> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless
>>>>>>>>>>>>> directed
>>>>>>>>>>>>> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings
>>>>>>>>>>>>> by those
>>>>>>>>>>>>> lacking formal training in mathematics.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Escher, Bach,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published
>>>>>>>>>>>>> around 1978 or
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central
>>>>>>>>>>>>> theme of the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Although not
>>>>>>>>>>>>> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that Gödel
>>>>>>>>>>>> himself says that his proof does have pathological self
>>>>>>>>>>>> reference
>>>>>>>>>>>> you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here 
>>>>>>>>>>>> only
>>>>>>>>>>>> cares about denigration rather than truth.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in the
>>>>>>>>>>>> Gödel sentence
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Prolog alone does not detect pathological self reference.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Counter-factual. unify_with_occurs_check() <is> Prolog.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The predicate unify_with_occurs_check is not the same as Prolog.
>>>>>>>>> It is
>>>>>>>>> just a small part of the standard language. It is one of those
>>>>>>>>> library
>>>>>>>>> predicates that can be used as I said below.
>>>>>>>>>> % This sentence is not true.
>>>>>>>>>> ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>>>>>> LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>>>>>> ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>>>>>> false.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You can check it every which way and find that it fails
>>>>>>>> because LP does not have a finite set of inference steps
>>>>>>>> thus would be rejected by proof theoretic semantics as
>>>>>>>> semantically ungrounded.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You can check it ever whixh way and find that it says nothing
>>>>>>> more than "false".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If you don't give a rat's ass for this truth I am done
>>>>>>>> talking to you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We already know you don't care about this truth any more than
>>>>>>> other truths.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just emphasized that because of the lack of truth
>>>>>> life on Earth will not survive and you said this was
>>>>>> off topic.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yu >>>>> Though it does not say why unify_with_occurs_check fails. The
>>>> result
>>>>>>>>> is the same for unify_with_occurs_check(5, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> It has certain standard predicates
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> including unify_with_occurs_check
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  >> that makes such detection simpler than in typical programming
>>>>>>>>>  >> languages(like Fortran) but the same  detection is possible in
>>>>>>>>>  >> those, too.
>>>>>>>>>>> Gödel's sentence is a sentence in the first order Peano
>>>>>>>>>>> arithmetic.
>>>>>>>>>>> In that language there is no way to express a reference and in
>>>>>>>>>>> particular a self-reference. For the undecidability proof
>>>>>>>>>>> there is
>>>>>>>>>>> no need to interprete the theorem at all. In the proof of an
>>>>>>>>>>> Peano-
>>>>>>>>>>> unprovable arithmetic truth the usual arithmetic
>>>>>>>>>>> interpretation is
>>>>>>>>>>> relevant.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> In PTS if directly in PA there are no inference steps
>>>>>>>>>> that derive G directly in PA then G is ungrounded in
>>>>>>>>>> PA thus essentially meaningless in PA.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Meaning is not relevant.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Not being able to prove meaningless gibberish has
>>>>>>>> never been any actual limitation. The meaningless
>>>>>>>> gibberish should have always been rejected as bad input.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not to be able to give meaning to an arithmetic statement has
>>>>>>> never been more than a personal limitation. Every natural number
>>>>>>> is a natural number number and Gödel numbers are no exception.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by
>>>>>> Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as
>>>>>> an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed,
>>>>>> but semantically nonsensical.
>>>>>
>>>>> And not desiderable when discussing arithmetic.
>>>>
>>>> The most important thing about arithmetic is to get the
>>>> correct answer. When a gibberish nonsense expression of
>>>> PA is construed as meaningful just because its syntax is
>>>> correct this is a woefully stupid mistake. Because you are
>>>> a mindless robot utterly bereft of a living soul you will
>>>> never get this.
>>>>
>>>>> Therefore the formal
>>>>> languages for logic and arithemtic are desigend so that that kind of
>>>>> nonsense is not expressible.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In my theory of light and color I actually make an account where
>>> there's "green-shift" and there really is "colorless green" or
>>> as about "mono-green-shift", since something like Ogden Rood's
>>> "Modern Chromatics".
>>>
>>> One imagines "colorless green" and "sleep furiously" came out
>>> of an early generative program and since multi-pass parsers
>>> greatly modify the considerations of usual formal methods and
>>> right linear automatons perhaps equipped with look-ahead.
>>> Multi-pass parsers are an entirely different model of computation,
>>> and natural languages here have Tesniere grammars.
>>>
>>> So, maybe he just didn't get it, it's "grue" and "bleen",
>>> about Nelson Goodman's "Riddle of Induction". Absent a
>>> modal temporal relevance logic that's quite weak.
>>>
>>> Anyways "sleep furiously" simply reflects on that the brain
>>> works rather continuously on background problems, the digestion
>>> and the internalization, for usual accounts of problems best
>>> worked by taking a nap.
>>>
>>>
>>> Chomsky lost a lot of cachet since the whole
>>> hedonism/corruption/blackmail bit. Anyways
>>> also the account of one-pass small-stack grammar's
>>> is not according to the usual account of natural
>>> language the parsing.
>>>
>>> So, natural language grammars in their complexity
>>> and the flow in the accidence and adjectival force
>>> are much more about Tesniere and dependency-clause
>>> grammars as students in English learned to diagram
>>> sentences about the same time as mathematical "proof"
>>> was introduced.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It seems that you are trying to get away with pretending
>> that you fail to understand the notion of a type mismatch
>> error.
>>
>> Kurt Gödel in his 1944 Russell's mathematical logic gave the following
>> definition of the "theory of simple types" in a footnote:
>>
>> By the theory of simple types I mean the doctrine which says that the
>> objects of thought (or, in another interpretation, the symbolic
>> expressions) are divided into types, namely: individuals, properties of
>> individuals, relations between individuals, properties of such
>> relations, etc. (with a similar hierarchy for extensions), and that
>> sentences of the form: " a has the property φ ", " b bears the relation
>> R to c ", etc. are meaningless, if a, b, c, R, φ are not of types
>> fitting together.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_type_theory#G%C3%B6del_1944
>>
> 
> No, I'm just not ignorant of the lack of class/set distinction.
> 
> About the transfer principle, and about accounts where
> something that is so for each apiece is so for all together,
> there's one where there's a non-standard countable model of
> integer with a point at infinity naturally simply since
> quantification also makes it so, like Russell's paradox,
> that Goedel's first object outside the theory would be.
> 
> Then, usually "Peirce" or "Pierce" are better sources for type theory,
> though Russell whipped up ramified and stratified types in set theory.
> 
> https://iep.utm.edu/peir-log/
> https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/
> 
> 
> Russell comes across as an erudite logician and schooled philosopher,
> yet though plenty of his accounts see him as a self-aggrandizing
> free-loader.
> 

Ridiculously stupid ad hominem basis.
I always took you for much smarter than that.

> Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that, ....
> 
> https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/set+theory
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_(set_theory)
> 
> Anyways Goedel's world of theorems of his arithmetization is
> the same before and after second arithmetization, maybe you'd be
> happier instead arguing against his completeness results.
> 
> 
> 
> 


-- 
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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#345774

FromRoss Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com>
Date2026-05-01 19:47 -0700
Message-ID<d_SdnUsL9b94-Gj0nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#345762
On 05/01/2026 01:41 PM, olcott wrote:
> On 5/1/2026 2:54 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> On 05/01/2026 12:35 PM, olcott wrote:
>>> On 5/1/2026 12:47 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>> On 05/01/2026 07:54 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>> On 5/1/2026 3:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>> On 30/04/2026 15:01, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>> On 4/30/2026 2:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 29/04/2026 17:17, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 4/29/2026 1:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 15:18, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/28/2026 2:34 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 00:57, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [ Followup-To: set ]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sentence
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>      ...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> terminating.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> directed
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> graph looks like this:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (D1)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gödel's
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> directed
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> by those
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> lacking formal training in mathematics.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Escher, Bach,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> around 1978 or
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> theme of the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Although not
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gödel
>>>>>>>>>>>>> himself says that his proof does have pathological self
>>>>>>>>>>>>> reference
>>>>>>>>>>>>> you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here
>>>>>>>>>>>>> only
>>>>>>>>>>>>> cares about denigration rather than truth.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gödel sentence
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Prolog alone does not detect pathological self reference.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Counter-factual. unify_with_occurs_check() <is> Prolog.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The predicate unify_with_occurs_check is not the same as Prolog.
>>>>>>>>>> It is
>>>>>>>>>> just a small part of the standard language. It is one of those
>>>>>>>>>> library
>>>>>>>>>> predicates that can be used as I said below.
>>>>>>>>>>> % This sentence is not true.
>>>>>>>>>>> ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>>>>>>> LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>>>>>>> ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>>>>>>> false.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You can check it every which way and find that it fails
>>>>>>>>> because LP does not have a finite set of inference steps
>>>>>>>>> thus would be rejected by proof theoretic semantics as
>>>>>>>>> semantically ungrounded.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You can check it ever whixh way and find that it says nothing
>>>>>>>> more than "false".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If you don't give a rat's ass for this truth I am done
>>>>>>>>> talking to you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We already know you don't care about this truth any more than
>>>>>>>> other truths.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just emphasized that because of the lack of truth
>>>>>>> life on Earth will not survive and you said this was
>>>>>>> off topic.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yu >>>>> Though it does not say why unify_with_occurs_check fails. The
>>>>> result
>>>>>>>>>> is the same for unify_with_occurs_check(5, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> It has certain standard predicates
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> including unify_with_occurs_check
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>  >> that makes such detection simpler than in typical programming
>>>>>>>>>>  >> languages(like Fortran) but the same  detection is
>>>>>>>>>> possible in
>>>>>>>>>>  >> those, too.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Gödel's sentence is a sentence in the first order Peano
>>>>>>>>>>>> arithmetic.
>>>>>>>>>>>> In that language there is no way to express a reference and in
>>>>>>>>>>>> particular a self-reference. For the undecidability proof
>>>>>>>>>>>> there is
>>>>>>>>>>>> no need to interprete the theorem at all. In the proof of an
>>>>>>>>>>>> Peano-
>>>>>>>>>>>> unprovable arithmetic truth the usual arithmetic
>>>>>>>>>>>> interpretation is
>>>>>>>>>>>> relevant.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> In PTS if directly in PA there are no inference steps
>>>>>>>>>>> that derive G directly in PA then G is ungrounded in
>>>>>>>>>>> PA thus essentially meaningless in PA.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Meaning is not relevant.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Not being able to prove meaningless gibberish has
>>>>>>>>> never been any actual limitation. The meaningless
>>>>>>>>> gibberish should have always been rejected as bad input.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Not to be able to give meaning to an arithmetic statement has
>>>>>>>> never been more than a personal limitation. Every natural number
>>>>>>>> is a natural number number and Gödel numbers are no exception.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by
>>>>>>> Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as
>>>>>>> an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed,
>>>>>>> but semantically nonsensical.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And not desiderable when discussing arithmetic.
>>>>>
>>>>> The most important thing about arithmetic is to get the
>>>>> correct answer. When a gibberish nonsense expression of
>>>>> PA is construed as meaningful just because its syntax is
>>>>> correct this is a woefully stupid mistake. Because you are
>>>>> a mindless robot utterly bereft of a living soul you will
>>>>> never get this.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Therefore the formal
>>>>>> languages for logic and arithemtic are desigend so that that kind of
>>>>>> nonsense is not expressible.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In my theory of light and color I actually make an account where
>>>> there's "green-shift" and there really is "colorless green" or
>>>> as about "mono-green-shift", since something like Ogden Rood's
>>>> "Modern Chromatics".
>>>>
>>>> One imagines "colorless green" and "sleep furiously" came out
>>>> of an early generative program and since multi-pass parsers
>>>> greatly modify the considerations of usual formal methods and
>>>> right linear automatons perhaps equipped with look-ahead.
>>>> Multi-pass parsers are an entirely different model of computation,
>>>> and natural languages here have Tesniere grammars.
>>>>
>>>> So, maybe he just didn't get it, it's "grue" and "bleen",
>>>> about Nelson Goodman's "Riddle of Induction". Absent a
>>>> modal temporal relevance logic that's quite weak.
>>>>
>>>> Anyways "sleep furiously" simply reflects on that the brain
>>>> works rather continuously on background problems, the digestion
>>>> and the internalization, for usual accounts of problems best
>>>> worked by taking a nap.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chomsky lost a lot of cachet since the whole
>>>> hedonism/corruption/blackmail bit. Anyways
>>>> also the account of one-pass small-stack grammar's
>>>> is not according to the usual account of natural
>>>> language the parsing.
>>>>
>>>> So, natural language grammars in their complexity
>>>> and the flow in the accidence and adjectival force
>>>> are much more about Tesniere and dependency-clause
>>>> grammars as students in English learned to diagram
>>>> sentences about the same time as mathematical "proof"
>>>> was introduced.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> It seems that you are trying to get away with pretending
>>> that you fail to understand the notion of a type mismatch
>>> error.
>>>
>>> Kurt Gödel in his 1944 Russell's mathematical logic gave the following
>>> definition of the "theory of simple types" in a footnote:
>>>
>>> By the theory of simple types I mean the doctrine which says that the
>>> objects of thought (or, in another interpretation, the symbolic
>>> expressions) are divided into types, namely: individuals, properties of
>>> individuals, relations between individuals, properties of such
>>> relations, etc. (with a similar hierarchy for extensions), and that
>>> sentences of the form: " a has the property φ ", " b bears the relation
>>> R to c ", etc. are meaningless, if a, b, c, R, φ are not of types
>>> fitting together.
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_type_theory#G%C3%B6del_1944
>>>
>>
>> No, I'm just not ignorant of the lack of class/set distinction.
>>
>> About the transfer principle, and about accounts where
>> something that is so for each apiece is so for all together,
>> there's one where there's a non-standard countable model of
>> integer with a point at infinity naturally simply since
>> quantification also makes it so, like Russell's paradox,
>> that Goedel's first object outside the theory would be.
>>
>> Then, usually "Peirce" or "Pierce" are better sources for type theory,
>> though Russell whipped up ramified and stratified types in set theory.
>>
>> https://iep.utm.edu/peir-log/
>> https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/
>>
>>
>> Russell comes across as an erudite logician and schooled philosopher,
>> yet though plenty of his accounts see him as a self-aggrandizing
>> free-loader.
>>
>
> Ridiculously stupid ad hominem basis.
> I always took you for much smarter than that.
>
>> Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that, ....
>>
>> https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/set+theory
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_(set_theory)
>>
>> Anyways Goedel's world of theorems of his arithmetization is
>> the same before and after second arithmetization, maybe you'd be
>> happier instead arguing against his completeness results.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

Maybe it's not Russell's fault, since if you actually read Russell
he does point out in works like Principia Mathematica that about
the "isolation" after restriction-of-comprehension to "ban" paradox, and
"significance" after paradox-came-back to "ignore" paradox,
there's one way to read what he wrote as that he would be aware of
those things and that "isolation" is "not-isolation" and that
"significance" is "not-significance", yet, that would be rather
too generous since thusly one may say "Russell" is "not-Russell",
furthermore he's never the Pope.


There's an account that Russell and Copleston had a televised debate
on "the question about God". This is available on Youtube like from
the "Philosophy Overdose" or some thing. Anyways at some point, it's
said, Copleston points out that what Russell is saying is not what
Russell is usually claimed to say, and Lord Russell says something along
the lines of that "that's for the little people" which I suppose
he defines as "not getting caught".


Then, that being worse than "should've known better", one might aver
that it doesn't suffice in something like mathematics "so you don't
have to worry about it", since, we care regardless, then it's a
double sort of betrayal, that's only slightly mollified by a sort
of "is so pains me, Lord Russell, to have to comment about this
'isolation' and 'significance' couched in the language of the
wishful-thinking sort among otherwise this logical paradox in
otherwise this book of logical development, so that if your fury
at my perceived turpitude must be assuaged, please accept my discomfort".


So, point-being that's not ad-hominem, it's due the development,
where Russell had otherwise admirable public character, keeping
up appearances and the like.


So, "Russell's retro-thesis" is what it's called here, it's a conscious
sort of deliberate ignorance about "isolation"
(restriction-of-comprehension) and "significance"
(invincible-ignorance-of-inductive-inference), since after reading
Russell that's the only way to make
what otherwise makes for an ingenerous reading (stupid, wrong).

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FromMikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi>
Date2026-05-02 11:04 +0300
Message-ID<10t4b6a$211nf$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#345752
On 01/05/2026 17:54, olcott wrote:
> On 5/1/2026 3:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
>> On 30/04/2026 15:01, olcott wrote:
>>> On 4/30/2026 2:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>> On 29/04/2026 17:17, olcott wrote:
>>>>> On 4/29/2026 1:37 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 15:18, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>> On 4/28/2026 2:34 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 28/04/2026 00:57, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 4/27/2026 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> [ Followup-To: set ]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> In sci.math Scott Hoge <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 2026-04-27, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/26/2026 3:01 PM, Scott Hoge wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The correct interpretation was, I argued, not "This sentence
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unprovable," but rather:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The following is unprovable (1):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>    The following is unprovable (2):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     The following is unprovable (3):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>      ...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> The directed graph of the evaluation sequence of G
>>>>>>>>>>>> has a cycle preventing its evaluation from ever
>>>>>>>>>>>> terminating.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> If you have no idea what directed graphs are you will
>>>>>>>>>>>> never get this. If you always knew what directed graphs
>>>>>>>>>>>> of evaluation sequences that contain cycles are then
>>>>>>>>>>>> you rebuttal has always been pure dishonesty.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I learned what directed graphs were in high school.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> It seems our views are somewhat in agreement, but my directed
>>>>>>>>>>> graph looks like this:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> (D1)
>>>>>>>>>>> · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ · ─→ ...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I strongly urge you to read and understand an actual proof of 
>>>>>>>>>> Gödel's
>>>>>>>>>> incompleteness theorem[*].  There are no looping or endless 
>>>>>>>>>> directed
>>>>>>>>>> graphs in these.  Such notions result from misunderstandings 
>>>>>>>>>> by those
>>>>>>>>>> lacking formal training in mathematics.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [*] I would suggest finding a second hand copy of "Gödel, 
>>>>>>>>>> Escher, Bach,
>>>>>>>>>> an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, published 
>>>>>>>>>> around 1978 or
>>>>>>>>>> 1979.  A proof of the incompleteness theorem is a central 
>>>>>>>>>> theme of the
>>>>>>>>>> book, which is witty and entertaining and well worth reading.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Peter Olcott has never read and understood such a proof. 
>>>>>>>>>> Although not
>>>>>>>>>> particularly difficult, it is beyond his understanding.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> After all these years where I have repeatedly proven that Gödel
>>>>>>>>> himself says that his proof does have pathological self reference
>>>>>>>>> you repeatedly deny this because you and everyone else here only
>>>>>>>>> cares about denigration rather than truth.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Prolog detects [and rejects] pathological self reference in the 
>>>>>>>>> Gödel sentence
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Prolog alone does not detect pathological self reference. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Counter-factual. unify_with_occurs_check() <is> Prolog.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The predicate unify_with_occurs_check is not the same as Prolog. 
>>>>>> It is
>>>>>> just a small part of the standard language. It is one of those 
>>>>>> library
>>>>>> predicates that can be used as I said below.
>>>>>>> % This sentence is not true.
>>>>>>> ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>>> LP = not(true(LP)).
>>>>>>> ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>>> false.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can check it every which way and find that it fails
>>>>> because LP does not have a finite set of inference steps
>>>>> thus would be rejected by proof theoretic semantics as
>>>>> semantically ungrounded.
>>>>
>>>> You can check it ever whixh way and find that it says nothing
>>>> more than "false".
>>>>
>>>>> If you don't give a rat's ass for this truth I am done
>>>>> talking to you.
>>>>
>>>> We already know you don't care about this truth any more than
>>>> other truths.
>>>
>>> I just emphasized that because of the lack of truth
>>> life on Earth will not survive and you said this was
>>> off topic.
>>
>> It is.
>>
> 
> Yu >>>>> Though it does not say why unify_with_occurs_check fails. The 
> result
>>>>>> is the same for unify_with_occurs_check(5, not(true(LP))).
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It has certain standard predicates
>>>>>>
>>>>>> including unify_with_occurs_check
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  >> that makes such detection simpler than in typical programming
>>>>>>  >> languages(like Fortran) but the same  detection is possible in
>>>>>>  >> those, too.
>>>>>>>> Gödel's sentence is a sentence in the first order Peano arithmetic.
>>>>>>>> In that language there is no way to express a reference and in
>>>>>>>> particular a self-reference. For the undecidability proof there is
>>>>>>>> no need to interprete the theorem at all. In the proof of an Peano-
>>>>>>>> unprovable arithmetic truth the usual arithmetic interpretation is
>>>>>>>> relevant.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In PTS if directly in PA there are no inference steps
>>>>>>> that derive G directly in PA then G is ungrounded in
>>>>>>> PA thus essentially meaningless in PA.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Meaning is not relevant. 
>>>>>
>>>>> Not being able to prove meaningless gibberish has
>>>>> never been any actual limitation. The meaningless
>>>>> gibberish should have always been rejected as bad input.
>>>>
>>>> Not to be able to give meaning to an arithmetic statement has
>>>> never been more than a personal limitation. Every natural number
>>>> is a natural number number and Gödel numbers are no exception.
>>>
>>> Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by
>>> Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as
>>> an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed,
>>> but semantically nonsensical.
>>
>> And not desiderable when discussing arithmetic. 
> 
> The most important thing about arithmetic is to get the
> correct answer.

Only when something is asked. Another important thing is to
determine whether the given answer is correct when a question
is asked and answered. Yet another important thing is to
check whether a statement about numbers is true or false.

The formal lanugage of arithemtic can only express statements
that can be interpreted as statements abut numbers. Questions
cannot be expressed in the formal language but informal
questions about a formal expression can be asked.

Gödel's sentence is a formal sentence that can be interpreted
as a claim about natural numbers. Whether the claim is true
is a reasonable question about the claim.

> When a gibberish nonsense expression of
> PA is construed as meaningful just because its syntax is
> correct this is a woefully stupid mistake.

A sentence about numbers and addition, multiplication, equality
and ordering is not gibberish just because you don't understand
it.
>> Therefore the formal languages for logic and arithemtic are
 >> desigend so that that kind of nonsense is not expressible.

Which means that all your talk about arithmetic gibberish is
just empty claims about nothing.

-- 
Mikko

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