PL Olcott         
         
PL Olcott         
         According to the Curry-Howard model - with which I admit I am completely unfamiliar - what takes the place of the axioms in mathematical science? — alan1000
PL Olcott         
         What does the BOAK say about axioms, or absolute presuppositions (aka hinge propositions)? — tim wood
PL Olcott         
         But I think it is a fair representation of Godel's arguments that there are an uncountably infinite number of axioms. — tim wood
PL Olcott         
         And you might consider paying a little more attention to Godel - as well to the definition of any axiom. I.e., axioms are unprovable: does that mean that they're untrue? And are you confusing finite with infinite? — tim wood
PL Olcott         
         Pair or pairs of what? This is not English. — tim wood
I wrote that per Godel there are an uncountable infinity of axioms, not that the proofs were of infinite length. — tim wood
What is it that you imagine completeness/incompleteness to be? Godel demonstrated that for systems at least as strong as arithmetic, complete implies inconsistent, with the consequence that every expression in that system is provable. By constructing his peculiar expression, he showed there were expressions that were unprovable but true in the system, therefore the system being incomplete. — tim wood
(Demonstrating in passing that if "truth" were definable, then he could create an expression that asserted its own untruth, being then both true and false at the same time.) — tim wood
jgill         
         All of the basic facts of the model of the current world are stipulated to be necessarily true, thus are the axioms of BOAK. — PL Olcott
PL Olcott         
         I accept this as a definition. But what is the pair? — tim wood
(a) The BOAK can prove every instance of (formal system /expression)
pair that cannot be proved making the BOAK complete. — PL Olcott
You stipulate axioms are true - but obviously not provable. Either there are no axioms in BOAK, or there are unprovable expressions in BOAK. Or perhaps you meant that every expression in BOAK is provable except the axioms. I take it then that every statement in BOAK is either an axiom or the conclusion of a proof in BOAK. Is there a method in BOAK for deciding whether, given an unproved expression, it is true? — tim wood
But G is about provability and not about truth. — tim wood
PL Olcott         
         OK, this means an uncountable collection of "axioms". How could you organize these axioms in such a fashion they represent a data set in CS? What is axiom #1 ? — jgill
Some time back we had a promising theory of everything that started with the premise all facts could be catalogued within a program. But when asked "how?", things began to fade. — jgill
Wayfarer         
         Some time back we had a promising theory of everything that started with the premise all facts could be catalogued within a program. But when asked "how?", things began to fade. — jgill
jgill         
         The Cyc project has {Thing} at the root of its knowledge tree — PL Olcott
The objective of the Cyc project was to codify, in machine-usable form, the millions of pieces of knowledge that compose human common sense.
So, the system of axioms is constantly increasing. Proof it is finite at a particular time?The body of all current analytical general knowledge is not only countable it is finite. — PL Olcott
"True" by what measures? What of potential inferences not realized?What I mean by axiom is any expression of language that has been stipulated to be true — PL Olcott
PL Olcott         
         The BOAK can prove every instance that cannot be proved?
It is possible the BOAK is just a kind of encyclopedia - is that what you're trying to say? — tim wood
PL Olcott         
         What I mean by axiom is any expression of language that has been stipulated to be true
— PL Olcott
"True" by what measures? What of potential inferences not realized? — jgill
PL Olcott         
         It is possible the BOAK is just a kind of encyclopedia - is that what you're trying to say? — tim wood
PL Olcott         
         What I'm trying to get to is understanding whether the propositions of BOAK are there because they're provable or there only because they have been proved in the sense that a proof of them has been given. E.g. - and possibly not the best example - of "sheep can live on Mars," and, "sheep cannot live on Mars," — tim wood
PL Olcott         
         I think that's induction, the logic of which starts with "If.... That is, not proved but granted. Yes? No? — tim wood
PL Olcott         
         induction, or else you're begging the question. — tim wood
jgill         
         Undecidability cannot possibly occur. — PL Olcott
PL Olcott         
         My question remains: show how exactly all axioms can be listed for reference. What is axiom #1?, #2?, . . — jgill
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