On 16 Dec 2012, at 20:28, meekerdb wrote:
On 12/16/2012 2:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
No. With the CTM the ultimate truth is arithmetical truth, and we
cannot really define it (with the CTM). We can approximate it in
less obvious ontologies, like second order logic, set theory, etc.
But with CTM this does not really define it.
Don't confuse truth, and the words pointing to it. Truth is always
beyond words, even the ultimate 3p truth.
What would it mean to 'define truth'? We can define 'true' as a
property of sentence that indicates a fact.
That's the best definition of some useful local truth. But when doing
metaphysics, you have to replace facts by "facts in some model/reality".
But I'm not sure how to conceive of defining mathematical 'true'.
It is the object of model theory. You always need to add more axiom in
a theory to handle its model. You cannot define the notion of truth-
about-set in ZF, but you can define truth-about-set in ZF in the
theory ZF +kappa (existence of inaccessible cardinals).
PA can define all the notion of truth for the formula with a bounded
restriction of the quantification.
Does it just mean consistent with a set of axioms,
No. That means only having a model. true in some reality. But for
arithmetic "true" means satisfied by the usual structure (N, +, *).
i.e. not provably false?
That just consistent. True entails consistency, but consistency does
not entail truth.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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