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Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings

From "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.theory, comp.ai.philosophy, sci.logic, sci.math.symbolic, sci.math, sci.lang
Subject Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings
Date 2026-05-24 14:21 -0700
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On 5/24/2026 10:49 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
> olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5/13/2026 10:39 AM, dart200 wrote:
>>> On 5/13/26 8:32 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>> On 5/13/2026 10:03 AM, dart200 wrote:
>>>>> On 5/12/26 1:52 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>> On 5/12/2026 1:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
>>>>>>> On 5/12/26 6:59 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>> Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge
>>>>>>>> that can be expressed in language can be expressed as
>>>>>>>> relations between finite strings.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I propose that a concrete counter example to this these
>>>>>>>> is categorically impossible.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> DD halts and it's not outside the body of knowledge that can be
>>>>>>> expressed in language
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can Carol correctly answer “no” to this (yes/no) question?
>>>>>> E C R Hehner. Objective and Subjective Specifications
>>>>>> WST Workshop on Termination, Oxford.  2018 July 18.
>>>>>> See https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hehner/OSS.pdf
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As input DD to proof theoretic halt prover HHH it specifies
>>>>>> infinitely recursive simulation this PTS requires input DD
>>>>>> to HHH to be rejected as not being grounded in a truth value.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is not the case for the proof theoretic halt prover pair
>>>>>> HHH1/DD.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> therefore the claim that the input cannot be grounded in a truth
>>>>> value is not categorically true. it's only HHH that cannot output the
>>>>> truth.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> DD as input to HHH fails to be grounded in a semantic value
>>>> this is merely rejected as erroneous input to HHH thus does
>>>> not derive any unfathomable enigma.
>>>>
>>>>> therefore we're stuck at the same place as the consensus: no
>>>>> universal decider, only partial ones
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In the same way that we have no universal truth predicate:
>>>> Is "What the Fuck" true or false?
>>>>
>>>
>>> HH1 responds to the input DD quite accurately. the underlying question
>>> of whether DD halts or not is simply _not_ garbage.
>>>
>>> ur analogy does not capture the nature of these context-dependent
>>> computations, no matter how many times u repeat it polcott. the question
>>> itself is fine, it's just the nature of computing makes computing it
>>> somewhat context-dependent
>>>
>>
>> Can Carol correctly answer “no” to this (yes/no) question?
>> (PhD Computer Science professor Eric Hehner:2018)
> 
> Straw man, showing that you are just diverting the question, because you
> KNOW that you don’t know what you are talking about.
> 
> Your problem is your world doesn’t understand the categorical difference
> between a will-full actor like “Carol”, and a deterministic actor like a
> program, such as HH or DD.
> 
> Perhaps your problem is that you sold your ability to be will-full, or are
> just so stupid as to have lost that capability,
> 
>>
>> When we understand that the linguistic context of who is asked the
>> question is an aspect of the full meaning of this question then we have
>> a (yes/no) question that is defined to have no correct (yes/no) answer.
> 
> Yes, it can impact the answer to a SUBJECTIVE question which include a
> will-full actor.
> 
> It can not impact the answer to an OBJECTIVE question, for which the
> behavior of a program given defined input definitely is.
> 
> Al your comparison shows is that you are too stupid to understand that if
> HH is a program, then its answer to any question is predetermined by its
> coding, and thus your arguement just shows your stupidity.
>>
>> When anyone else besides Carol is asked this question the linguistic
>> context changes making it a different question. This seems isomorphic
>> to the above halting problem proof question.
>>
>> E C R Hehner. Objective and Subjective Specifications
>> WST Workshop on Termination, Oxford.  2018 July 18.
>> See https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hehner/OSS.pdf
>>
>> Even to this date thousands of years later no one yet
>> even agrees the the Liar Paradox simply is not a truth
>> bearer. This seems to me that short-circuits are hard-wired
>> into human brains. It is like a PhD math professor that
>> does not understand that 2 + 3 = 5, and instead considers
>> 1st grade arithmetic to be an unfathomable enigma.
>>
> 
> Which agains shows your stupidity, as what you claim is un agreed to is
> standard knowledge in most of the field. I suppose part of the problem is
> you don’t even understand how the field of logic and philosophy is built
> and divided, thinking everything is part of everything which is just part
> of your insanity.
> 
> The “Halting Problem” is in the field of Computability theory which is a
> Formal Logic system with DEFINED rules, including the definition of what is
> “Truth”, and you aren’t allowed to change that by using ideas not part of
> that Formal System.
> 
> It seems, you just don’t know what any of that means, but just stupidly lie
> claiming you are smarter than the people in the field, when it is just that
> you are too stupid to understand your stupidity.
> 
> 
> 

Shit man... You are right!

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Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-12 08:59 -0500
  Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-12 11:03 -0700
    Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-12 15:52 -0500
      Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-13 08:03 -0700
        Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-13 10:32 -0500
          Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-13 08:39 -0700
            Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-13 11:02 -0500
              yes another possible ct-thesis hole? dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-13 09:45 -0700
              yet another possible ct-thesis hole??? dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-13 09:49 -0700
              Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings Richard Damon <richard@damon-family.org> - 2026-05-24 17:49 +0000
                Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-05-24 14:21 -0700
      Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings Richard Damon <richard@damon-family.org> - 2026-05-24 17:34 +0000
        Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-24 13:16 -0500
          Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-05-24 12:56 -0600
            Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-24 14:05 -0500
              Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-05-24 13:11 -0600
                Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-24 14:16 -0500
            Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-24 14:36 -0700
              Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-05-24 15:45 -0600
                Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-24 23:26 -0700
                Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-25 09:18 -0500
          Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings Richard Damon <richard@damon-family.org> - 2026-06-23 11:36 +0000
  Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-05-26 10:56 +0300
    Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-26 09:01 -0500
      Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-26 08:37 -0700
        Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-26 10:50 -0500
          Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-26 09:31 -0700
            Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-05-26 12:05 -0500
              Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-26 22:54 -0700
      Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-05-27 10:21 +0300
  Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-06-14 13:52 +0100
    Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-14 08:12 -0500
    Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-15 20:50 -0500
    Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-19 13:13 -0500
      Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-19 17:42 -0600
        Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-19 19:15 -0500
          Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2026-06-19 19:31 -0600
        Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-06-20 10:46 +0300
          Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-06-20 09:37 -0500
            Re: Olcott thesis: Every element of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language can be expressed as relations between finite strings Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-06-21 12:32 +0300

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