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Re: Key new insight into halting undecidability

From polcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.logic, sci.math, comp.theory
Subject Re: Key new insight into halting undecidability
Date 2025-12-08 21:50 -0600
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On 12/8/2025 9:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
> On 12/8/25 10:16 PM, polcott wrote:
>> On 12/8/2025 8:57 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>> On 12/8/25 9:34 PM, polcott wrote:
>>>> On 12/8/2025 8:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>> On 12/8/25 8:00 PM, polcott wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/8/2025 6:18 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What did I insufficeintly specify?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Troll
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In other words, you admit defeat.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not in the least little bit.
>>>
>>> Then why didn't you answer the question?
>>>
>>>> The key difference with you as a troll compared to
>>>> other trolls is that you do have a reasonably deep
>>>> understanding of some of these things.
>>>
>>> So, you admit that I know what I am talking about, and that you just 
>>> refuse to answer the question.
>>>
>>> The only logical reason, is because you can't, because you lied about 
>>> what you can do. After all, why would you hide the proof that you are 
>>> smarter than me?
>>>
>>> The answer, because you know you are out matched and are running 
>>> aways scared and trying to throw up a smoke screen.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The following may not be over your head if you cared
>>>> to understand instead of being locked in rebuttal mode:
>>>>
>>>> Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping from
>>>> their [finite string] inputs to an accept or reject
>>>> state on the basis that this [finite string] input
>>>> specifies or fails to specify a *particular* semantic
>>>> or syntactic property.
>>>
>>> Right, but are only CORRECT if the answr they give matches the answer 
>>> to the problem they are SUPPOSED to decide on.
>>>
>>
>> I will give you a much simpler example.
>> If a universal truth predicate is defined
>> to return true when and expression is true
>> and false when an expression is false then
>> what does it correctly return for this:
>> True("What time is it")
>>
>>
>>
> 
> You have a problem with you definition,
> 
> A Truth Predicate is defined to return True if the input statement is 
> true, and false for anything else, either a false statement, or a 
> statement without a truth value.
> 

That makes perfect sense to me, what is a
halt decider defined this way?

true if it is determined that it halts else false.

> Since, "What Time is it" doesn't have a truth value (as it is a 
> question, not an asserting)
> 
> True("What time is it") is False.
> 
> Again, your problem is you don't know the meaning of the words, and try 
> to redefine them to match your ignorancd.
> 
> That makes you world just a lie.

I examine the philosophical foundations of these things
that everyone else simply takes as "given".

-- 
Copyright 2025 Olcott

My 28 year goal has been to make
"true on the basis of meaning" computable.

This required establishing a new foundation
for correct reasoning.

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                Re: A new category of thought olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2025-12-07 09:16 -0600
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                Re: A new category of thought Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2025-12-06 22:16 -0500
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                Re: A new category of thought Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2025-12-07 17:55 -0500
                Re: A new category of thought polcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2025-12-07 17:15 -0600
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                Re: A new category of thought polcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2025-12-08 19:00 -0600
                Re: A new category of thought Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2025-12-08 21:24 -0500
                Key new insight into halting undecidability polcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2025-12-08 20:34 -0600
                Re: Key new insight into halting undecidability Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2025-12-08 21:57 -0500
                Re: Key new insight into halting undecidability polcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2025-12-08 21:16 -0600
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                Re: Key new insight into halting undecidability polcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2025-12-08 21:50 -0600
                Re: Key new insight into halting undecidability Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2025-12-08 23:20 -0500
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                Re: A new category of thought Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2025-12-02 10:53 +0200
                Re: A new category of thought olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2025-12-02 08:00 -0600
                Re: A new category of thought Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2025-12-03 12:41 +0200
                Re: A new category of thought olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2025-12-03 09:59 -0600
                Re: A new category of thought Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2025-12-05 10:48 +0200
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                Re: A new category of thought olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2025-12-05 10:41 -0600
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                Re: A new category of thought olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2025-12-06 06:24 -0600
                Re: A new category of thought Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2025-12-07 12:39 +0200
                Re: A new category of thought olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2025-12-07 08:59 -0600
                Re: A new category of thought Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2025-12-09 15:15 +0200
                Re: A new category of thought polcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2025-12-09 12:04 -0600
                Re: A new category of thought Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2025-12-14 13:02 +0200
                Re: A new category of thought Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2025-12-02 01:39 +0000
                Re: A new category of thought olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2025-12-01 20:01 -0600
          Re: A new category of thought Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2025-12-01 17:37 +0000
            Re: A new category of thought olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2025-12-01 13:44 -0600
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