Hi Stephen P. King That might be what I think Bruno referred to as 6 sigma truth, namely truth that has a probability within std dev of 6 sigma of being true.
Roger Clough, [email protected] 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-05, 09:08:03 Subject: Re: Is Nietzsche's shade wandering in platonia ? On 11/5/2012 7:43 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal OK, you say propositions might have a contradiction but you might not yet have found the contradictions. That's a profound point. In other words, one can't ever be sure if a proposition is necessarily true, because, as Woody Allen says, forever is a long time. And the variety and number of possible copntradictions is possibly vast. Shades of Nietzsche ! Tell me it isn't so ! I guess that's the same as saying that you can never be sure of contingency either. I need to lie down for a while. This is beginning to look like existentialism. Roger Clough, [email protected] 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen Hi Roger, Great question! If we are allowed to take forever to pay back a debt, then we have an effective free lunch! What you are thinking about with the concept of "propositions might have a contradiction but you might not yet have found the contradictions" is what is known as omega-inconsistent logical systems. ;-) Theories that are consistent right up until they produce a statement that is not consistent. By the way, the usual rules of logical inference in math assumes that truth theories are never inconsistent. What about theories that are only 'almost' never inconsistent? This might help us think about the shade of Nietzche a bit more. -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
