It can be implemented in C or Java in modified form with abstraction and generalisation. It cannot be implemented because you are seeing it in the propositional logic rather than predicate or first-order logic. — Corvus
Quine objected to true on the basis of meaning trying to get away with saying there is no such thing as meaning. The stupid nitwit could not even begin to understand that bachelors are not married. — PL Olcott
Hence a woman can be a bachelor, so could a man married many times. I am sure there are surnames called "Bachelor", hence some married old folk could be a Bachelor, Mr Bachelor, or if for a woman, Ms Bachelor. They are all B(b)achelors. — Corvus
A person with a 50 million IQ that cannot understand that the term {bachelor} is assigned the semantic meaning of {unmarried + male + adult} is ridiculously stupid about this one point. — PL Olcott
I think Quine did understand what bachelor meant. But his point was that a word can mean different things, the meanings of words can change through time and culture, and for a word to convey clear meanings, it needs the context in the expressions in grammatically correct sentence reflecting the reality situations. — Corvus
every expression of language that is true on the basis of its meaning is either a fact or derived from a fact. — PL Olcott
Really? In which book or article did he do that? I have his Mathematical Logic, Method of Logic, Elementary Logic and The Significance of New Logic, total 4 books. But cannot recall seeing it.No that it not it. He used the term {synonymous} 98 times. — PL Olcott
Bachelor is a rather simple term. There are many other words in English which are more abstract to define. Try to define "Self", "Soul" and "Existence". Let's see if analytic truths can define them without contradiction or obscurity.He did not understand that the term {bachelor} is simply assigned the semantic meaning of {unmarried + male + adult}. — PL Olcott
Gödel Incompleteness can only be implemented in systems that implement Boolean True(L, x) incorrectly. It cannot exist in systems where True(L, x) means that x is provable from L and False(L, x) means ~x is provable from L and for everything else x is simply untrue in L.
This same reasoning also conquers Tarski Undefinability.
When Tarski anchors his undefinability in the Liar Paradox: — PL Olcott
Really? In which book or article did he do that? I have his Mathematical Logic, Method of Logic, Elementary Logic and The Significance of New Logic, total 4 books. But cannot recall seeing it. — Corvus
Bachelor is a rather simple term. There are many other words in English which are more abstract to define. — Corvus
As I said before, will say again. The whole confusion with the paradox and undefinability have been originated from the single narrow perspective seeing the problems in propositional logic, which only allows a proposition must be either True or False.
If you think about the real world situations and objects, there are cases where things are neutral i.e. neither true nor false such as Number 0. And there are the real world cases where things are both True and False, read on QM or some Metaphysical topics. — Corvus
From the webThat Tarski and Gödel did not understand something as simple as this makes them totally incompetent. — PL Olcott
The article is long, comprehensive, and in parts very interesting - I won't pretend to have read it all. But to you, PL, I commend it as necessary for your understanding. As for your quote above, it simply establishes - as a truth-maker - that someone is totally incompetent. — tim wood
I think everyone gets it as something that is defined in a particular way. But having defined it, you then misapply it where it doesn't apply, leading you to make foolish claims.At this point it does seem very very stupid that people cannot understand that self-contradictory expressions are not {truth-bearers}. — PL Olcott
Are there expressions of language that are true but are NOT true on the basis of their meaning AND also are not derived from other facts? Put slightly differently - is there another mechanism/method to determine the truth value of expressions of language? — EricH
Yes there is a TV in my living room right now is true on the basis of eyesight. — PL Olcott
I think everyone gets it as something that is defined in a particular way. But having defined it, you then misapply it where it doesn't apply, leading you to make foolish claims. — tim wood
So there are two distinct mechanisms to determine the truth value of a language expressions, yes? — EricH
That almost everyone including the greatest experts in the field do not fully understand that self-contradictory expressions are not {truth-bearers} does seem ridiculously stupid to me. — PL Olcott
I think you have said that a truth-bearer is a proposition that is true, or if false then its negation is a truth-bearer. Yes? Or if no, then what, exactly, do you say a truth-bearer is? — tim wood
↪PL Olcott You get right to the point so will I. There are a whole lot of so-called "contradictory" sentences that are true. — tim wood
The sentences in question say one way or another - and the article makes clear that exactly how they speak can be important - that they are not true, or not provable. And the analysis shows that whatever else might be true, it is self-evident and provable that they are true. Which is to say that they are, according to your exact definition, truth-bearers, which in turn makes all of your claims absurd.A proposition / logic sentence is defined to always be a {truth-bearer}. This means that it is either true or its negation is true. — PL Olcott
The sentences in question say one way or another - and the article makes clear that exactly how they speak can be important - that they are not true, or not provable. And the analysis shows that whatever else might be true, it is self-evident and provable that they are true. Which is to say that they are, according to your exact definition, truth-bearers, which in turn makes all of your claims absurd. — tim wood
questions cannot be {truth bearers} is known by everyone that knows what {truth bearers} are. — PL Olcott
Your statement here sounds nonsense. Some questions can be for true or false. For example, "You lied, didn't you?" This means you lied, and it is true. It is also to mean you should be aware of the fact that you lied. — Corvus
The statement: (a) "You lied." and the question: (b) Did you lie? When we break it down to its constituent parts (b) is still not a truth bearer. — PL Olcott
I am not sure if you are allowed to modify the given example sentence under the process of breakdown. If it is allowed, then virtually all questions can be truth bearers. — Corvus
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