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| From | Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.theory |
| Subject | Re: Could H correctly decide that P never halts? [ incorrect question ] |
| Message-ID | <20210704023413.000078da@reddwarf.jmc> (permalink) |
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| Date | 2021-07-04 02:34 +0100 |
On Sat, 3 Jul 2021 19:59:49 -0500
olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> wrote:
> On 7/3/2021 7:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> > olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:
> >
> >> In the halting problem there exists TM/input pairs such that TM X
> >> cannot return the correct halt status to input I.
> >
> > That's badly worded but you have the gist of it. No TM computes the
> > halting function because, for every TM, there is an infinity of
> > inputs which are incorrectly accepted or rejected by that TM.
> >
> > Could you move on now?
> >
> >> Since there is no existing term-of-the-art for this case I will
> >> call it an incorrect question.
> >
> > That's an odd thing to call it, but if it makes you happy, go ahead.
> > Other people just call these the cases where X(I) does not
> > correspond to halts(I) -- colloquially, the cases X gets wrong.
> >
> >> An incorrect question Q is
> >> (a) Question / decision problem Q
> >> (b) Posed to (person / TM) X
> >> (c) About (subject matter / input) I
> >> (d) Such that the answer A to Q posed to X about I has no
> >> correct value from the set of {yes,no} / {true,false}
> >
> >> All undecidable decision problems are only "undecidable" because
> >> they are based on incorrect questions.
> >
> > But, as you know, every instance of the halting problem has a
> > correct yea/no answer.
>
> When we ask a guy that has beaten his wife:
> Have you stopped beating your wife?
> One of {yes, no} is the correct answer.
>
> When we ask a guy that has never been married:
> Have you stopped beating your wife?
> Neither of {yes, no} is the correct answer.
Do you extract these really really bad analogies from your ass?
>
> > This is also true, by definition, of every decision
> > problem. If there are any instances without a correct yes/no
> > answer, it's not decision problem. Whatever you are trying to
> > fudge with your hand-waving (a) to (d) and the weasel words "based
> > on", it can't apply to the halting problem.
> >
>
> When we ask H what return value to P is the correct halt status of
> P(P) neither true nor false are the correct return value.
>
> > Rather than waffle, why not build on the work of others? Just
> > declare that every undecidable problem (as established by the
> > various theorems) are what you will call "incorrect questions"?
> >
>
> The only reason that undecidable decision problems exist is that the
> foundation of the concept of analytical truth has been formed
> incoherently.
>
> All undecidable decision problems only exist because semantic
> coherence has never been propertly defined.
Take your fucking medication, dear.
/Flibble
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Re: Could H correctly decide that P never halts? [ already agreed ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2021-07-05 10:57 -0400
Re: Could H correctly decide that P never halts? [ already agreed ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2021-07-05 09:59 -0500
Re: Could H correctly decide that P never halts? [ already agreed ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2021-07-05 11:34 -0400
Re: Could H correctly decide that P never halts? [ already agreed ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2021-07-05 13:16 -0400
Re: Could H correctly decide that P never halts? [ already agreed ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2021-07-05 12:48 -0500
Re: Could H correctly decide that P never halts? [ already agreed ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2021-07-05 14:36 -0400
Re: Could H correctly decide that P never halts? [ already agreed ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2021-07-05 12:18 -0400
Re: Could H correctly decide that P never halts? [ already agreed ] Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-07-05 23:58 +0100
Re: Could H correctly decide that P never halts? [ already agreed ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2021-07-05 19:54 -0500
Re: Could H correctly decide that P never halts? [ already agreed ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2021-07-05 21:29 -0400
Re: Could H correctly decide that P never halts? [ already agreed ] Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-07-06 03:35 +0100
Re: Could H correctly decide that P never halts? [ already agreed ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2021-07-05 22:30 -0500
Re: Could H correctly decide that P never halts? [ already agreed ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2021-07-06 06:47 -0400
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Re: Could H correctly decide that P never halts? [ already agreed ] Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-07-06 13:23 +0100
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