• Re: Analytic Truth-makers

    From olcott@NoOne@NoWhere.com to comp.ai.philosophy on Mon Jan 19 12:50:10 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 7/23/2024 11:26 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/23/2024 9:51 AM, Wasell wrote:
    On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:17:15 -0400, in article
    <3fb77583036a3c8b0db4b77610fb4bf4214c9c23@i2pn2.org>, Richard Damon
    wrote:

    On 7/22/24 8:11 PM, olcott wrote:

    [...]

    *No stupid I have never been saying anything like that* If g and
    ~g is not provable in PA then g is not a truth-bearer in PA.

    What makes it different fron Goldbach's conjecture?

    I think a better example might be Goodstein's theorem [1].

    * It is expressible in the same language as PA.

    * It is neither provable, nor disprovable, in PA.

    * We know that it is true in the standard model of arithmetic.

    * We know that it is false in some (necessarily non-standard) models
       of arithmetic.

    * It was discovered and proved long before it was shown to be
       undecidable in PA.

    The only drawback is that the theorem is somewhat more complicated
    than Goldbach's conjecture -- not a lot, but a bit.


    [1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodstein%27s_theorem>


    I am establishing a new meaning for
    {true on the basis of meaning expressed in language}
    Formerly known as {analytic truth}.
    This makes True(L,x) computable and definable.

    L is the language of a formal mathematical system.
    x is an expression of that language.

    When we understand that True(L,x) means that there is a finite
    sequence of truth preserving operations in L from the semantic
    meaning of x to x in L, then mathematical incompleteness is abolished.

    ~True(L,x) ∧ ~True(L,~x)
    means that x is not a truth-bearer in L.
    It does not mean that L is incomplete

    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

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

    This required establishing a new foundation
    for correct reasoning.
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