Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 14 Apr 2017, at 19:31, David Nyman wrote: On 14 April 2017 at 17:59, Bruno Marchalwrote: On 13 Apr 2017, at 19:26, David Nyman wrote: On 12 April 2017 at 20:59, Bruno Marchal wrote: 2 ^(2^9) * (3^2) * (5^17) * (7^2) * (11^21) *(13^2) * (17*17) * 3 ^ Oh, I see what you mean: 3 ^(2^17) * (3^0) * (5^21) * (7^0) * (11^17) Now, you see it was easy, and, like me, you go fr ... too much quickly. Even without quoting the dictionary we can suspect some mistake. And I hope I will not put my finger where it might hurt in case you have been mentally abused by a sadistic mathematical teacher! Possibly, but I think I've recovered from any lingering PMSD ;) Good! That one would ask you what is the value of (3^0) ? and what is the value of (7^0)? And you would panic, thinking like ... hmm... er... 3^2 = 3 * 3, 3^1 = 3, 3^0 = .. !!! . gosh that one is tricky! Fortunately you had explained well that it was just a coding system. Yes. But notice that I have tried to avoid, this time, the term "code", because it is more a translation, like in German or in a natural language. It is partly conventional, but the structural relations between the numbers will be isomorphic in different languages, and is not conventional. In fact in the past I have managed to disabuse myself of unnecessary confusions of this sort by realising that something was simply a notation or naming convention. Are irrational numbers, after all, insane? They are not insane, but the fact that 2xx = yy has no solutions (except x = 0 = y) is not conventional, and does not depend on a coding. That is important for having later real pain and pleasure for the machine, and not conventional behavior only. And why is x^0 always 1? (that way you can always add the exponents). Yes, it is a good theory. Well, (a^b) * (a ^ c) = a ^(b + c), that is obvious for a, b, c natural numbers, and if you want keep this true for all integers, you will have that 3^0 = 3^(5 - 5) = 3^(5 +(-5)) = (3^5) *(3^(-5)) = (again to keep that law on the integers) = (3^5)/(3^5) = 1. same reasoning for (7^0) = 1. But 1 is not a prime number, and if we allow it in our coding, it would become ambiguous. In fact 1 has been thrown out of the prime to get a simple enunciation of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic: there is only one decomposition into prime factors. if 1 was a prime number, you can add it, as a factor where you want! That is why, normally, 0 has been represented by non null number, as any number ^ 0 = 1. I say normally, I will now search the dictionary logic-arithmetic (seen as languages), and I pray I did not make a typo! I said: So let us denote the logical and arithmetical symbols v, &, ->, ~, E, A, t, f, "(", ")" =, 0, s, +, * by the first odd numbers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, So, I did not (at least here). 0 has been represented by 23. (If my glasses does not fail me). Let us verify * is 29, + is 27, s is 25, 0 is 23. (A chance my recent cataract surgery has succeed! I have an implant!). I see (and so do you, I trust). Good health! Thanks. If only we knew the jaws has much well as the eyes ... The human jaws articulation is less known than even the brain So you should have written: 3 ^(2^17) * (3^23) * (5^21) * (7^23) * (11^17) (I guess my talk about was not necessary, .. you did just forget to represent 0, with a notion known by the machine. Yes, I suspected I was succumbing to the use/mention distinction, which you warned me about. But alas I looked too quickly and managed to miss where the symbol for 0 had been mentioned, so I relied on the expectation that you would kindly correct me. Thanks! Fair enough :) PS Are "(" and ")" meant to be the same? Ah! Now, that is *my* error, which you should not have copied, given that you detect it. ts, ts, ts So we were equally sloppy in this case! Mea culpa though. The teachers can be as sloppy as the learners, but usually only the learners get bad notes (grin). So the correct answer is 3 ^(2^17) * (3^23) * (5^21) * (7^23) * (11^19) And so the proof Ax(x=x) (0 = 0) is translated in arithmetic-language in the number 2 ^[(2^9) * (3^2) * (5^17) * (7^2) * (11^21) *(13^2) * (17*17)] * 3 ^ [(2^17) * (3^23) * (5^21) * (7^23) * (11^19)] The only important things is to see that this is just one number, written s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s ... s(0)...), and quite huge (!). Once the machine believes in addition and multiplication, it will denote the proof, and the machine will be able to answer question like "does a variable occur in that proof?", etc. Very good David, welcome to logic! (and sorry for being long, and probably too short in my next answer to the other posts as ... time flies like an
Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 13 Apr 2017, at 16:23, David Nyman wrote: On 13 April 2017 at 14:56, Bruno Marchalwrote: Hmm You seem to want to replace the Outer-God, by the Inner-God. That is a risky move toward solipsim. S4Grz does not see the gap, but it does not see the other minds either. But that's just it. We cannot ever "see" the other minds, nor even our own for that matter, however much we examine mechanism. But we can believe in them, as we do in our own. We can feel our mind, and cannot feel the mind of the other. We can believe in our mind, without doubt. But we cannot believe in other mind, without doubt. They might be p-zombie, instant-creature in a dream, hallucination, or something else. S4Grz (the 1p described by S4Grz, to be precise) is indeed solipsistic, even close to Brouwer solipsism/intuitionism. Perhaps the least confusing conception of this (following Hoyle's heuristic, which as you know I'm fond of) is to conceive the soul as indeed a soles ipse, though one with innumerable personifications, each profoundly amnesic with respect to the others. Yes. That fits S4Grz. In the "machine theology", it plays the role of Plotinus "universal soul", which is below the divine intellect (here G*) and God (here denoted cryptically without any name by p, put for a generic true arithmetical proposition (you can "define" God here by the set of true arithmetical sentences: Warning: it is a highly non computable set). But surely that must be true of any computational device capable of compartmentalising one program's states from another's. Is this then the Inner-God? That is a slight generalization. The salvia plant is "OK" with this, but it makes non universal machine conscious, and then even more conscious than the universal machine. It is unclear how will the much simpler machine consciousness differentiate? The theology of too much simple machine can degenerate, a bit like attempting to divide by zero. They will have "God's consciousness", out of time and space, and unique, in a, needless to say, highly dissociated state. How frustrating, your fridge (assuming that kind of things exists) knows as much as God, but it flies so high that it can't hear your pray. Perhaps, in concrete or perceptual form. But surely the abstract Outer-God is still evidenced in that maximally-compressed creative widget you call the UD? Only after the machine's "blasphem", when she identify herself with god: p <-> []p. This is going near a death experience, near inconsistency, near []f. With computationalism, we limit p to the sigma_1 sentences. They are arithmetical translation of halting computations. The creative widget is equivalent with Robinson Arithmetic. But the computationalist machine I define (in Robinson arithmetic) believes in the induction rules, and so it can prove that it is universal. In fact it can prove, like PA and ZF (where the "[]" denotes their own provability predicate): p -> []p (given that we limit ourself to p sigma_1). It is a theorem of G1 (axioms of G + (p -> []p)) Do we have []p -> p? Well, that is trivially true, given that we study the correct machine, by choice. We believe also that it is true for simple machine that we trust, like PA, and ZF (for many). But, and very importantly, no machine at all can prove that about itself. Only their divine intellect do: G* proves []p -> p (for those correct machine). Note that the theology is personnalized for each machine (as many "’[]" than machine), but are isomorphic and followes the G, G*, S4Grz laws for the correct machines. So the blasphem is true (G * proves p <-> []p), but the consistent machine will remain silent on this, That is a blasphem too, if said by the machine about itself. We are in the corona G* minus G. A good sum up diagram of the 8 "hypostases" or "type of points of view" (make sure your window is big enough: you should se, coincidentally, a sort of diamond above a a sort of square): Truth G1 G1* (the provable part of the provability logic, and G1* gives the whole bigger truth about the provability and consistency logic S4Grz1 (the 1-p, the first person, the universal soul, the inner-god, the "creative germ", the "terrible child", the solipsist) -- Z1Z1*(intelligible matter) X1 X1*(sensible matter) G1* proves the seemingly ultra-blasphemic collapsing of the whole adventure (writing a <-> b <-> c <-> ... for (a <-> b) & (b <-> c) & ...) G1* proves p <-> []p <-> ([]p & p) <-> ([]p & <>t) <- > ([]p & <>t & p). But G proves none of those equivalence, making the machines view obeying quite different logic (leading from the start to some tension/ schizophrenia). Take it easy. I dig toward the
Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 14 April 2017 at 17:59, Bruno Marchalwrote: > On 13 Apr 2017, at 19:26, David Nyman wrote: > > On 12 April 2017 at 20:59, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > 2 ^(2^9) * (3^2) * (5^17) * (7^2) * (11^21) *(13^2) * (17*17) * 3 ^ >> > > > Oh, I see what you mean: > > 3 ^(2^17) * (3^0) * (5^21) * (7^0) * (11^17) > > > > Now, you see it was easy, and, like me, you go fr ... too much > quickly. > > Even without quoting the dictionary we can suspect some mistake. And I > hope I will not put my finger where it might hurt in case you have been > mentally abused by a sadistic mathematical teacher! > Possibly, but I think I've recovered from any lingering PMSD ;) > That one would ask you what is the value of (3^0) ? and what is the value > of (7^0)? > > And you would panic, thinking like ... hmm... er... 3^2 = 3 * 3, 3^1 = 3, > 3^0 = .. !!! . gosh that one is tricky! > Fortunately you had explained well that it was just a coding system. In fact in the past I have managed to disabuse myself of unnecessary confusions of this sort by realising that something was simply a notation or naming convention. Are irrational numbers, after all, insane? And why is x^0 always 1? (that way you can always add the exponents). > Well, (a^b) * (a ^ c) = a ^(b + c), that is obvious for a, b, c natural > numbers, and if you want keep this true for all integers, you will have > that 3^0 = 3^(5 - 5) = 3^(5 +(-5)) = (3^5) *(3^(-5)) = (again to keep that > law on the integers) = (3^5)/(3^5) = 1. > > same reasoning for (7^0) = 1. > > But 1 is not a prime number, and if we allow it in our coding, it would > become ambiguous. In fact 1 has been thrown out of the prime to get a > simple enunciation of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic: there is only > one decomposition into prime factors. if 1 was a prime number, you can add > it, as a factor where you want! > > That is why, normally, 0 has been represented by non null number, as any > number ^ 0 = 1. > > I say normally, I will now search the dictionary logic-arithmetic (seen as > languages), and I pray I did not make a typo! > > I said: > > So let us denote the logical and arithmetical symbols v, &, ->, ~, E, A, > t, f, "(", ")" =, 0, s, +, * > by the first odd numbers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, > 27, 29, > > > So, I did not (at least here). 0 has been represented by 23. (If my > glasses does not fail me). Let us verify * is 29, + is 27, s is 25, 0 is 23. > (A chance my recent cataract surgery has succeed! I have an implant!). > I see (and so do you, I trust). Good health! > > So you should have written: > > 3 ^(2^17) * (3^23) * (5^21) * (7^23) * (11^17) > > > (I guess my talk about was not necessary, .. you did just forget to > represent 0, with a notion known by the machine. > > Yes, I suspected I was succumbing to the use/mention distinction, which you warned me about . B ut alas I looked too quick ly and managed to miss wh ere the symbol for 0 had been mentioned , s o I relied on the expectation that you would kindly correct me. Thanks! > > > PS Are "(" and ")" meant to be the same? > > > Ah! Now, that is *my* error, which you should not have copied, given that > you detect it. ts, ts, ts > So we were equally sloppy in this case! Mea culpa though. > > So the correct answer is > > 3 ^(2^17) * (3^23) * (5^21) * (7^23) * (11^19) > > > And so the proof > > Ax(x=x) > (0 = 0) > > is translated in arithmetic-language in the number > > > 2 ^[(2^9) * (3^2) * (5^17) * (7^2) * (11^21) *(13^2) * (17*17)] * 3 ^ > [(2^17) >> * (3^23) * (5^21) * (7^23) * (11^19)] > > > > The only important things is to see that this is just one number, written > s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s ... s(0)...), and quite huge (!). Once the machine > believes in addition and multiplication, it will denote the proof, and the > machine will be able to answer question like "does a variable occur in that > proof?", etc. > > Very good David, welcome to logic! (and sorry for being long, and probably > too short in my next answer to the other posts as ... time flies like an > arrow). > And fruit flies like a banana! David > > Bruno > > > > > David > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this
Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 13 Apr 2017, at 19:26, David Nyman wrote: On 12 April 2017 at 20:59, Bruno Marchalwrote: 2 ^(2^9) * (3^2) * (5^17) * (7^2) * (11^21) *(13^2) * (17*17) * 3 ^ Oh, I see what you mean: 3 ^(2^17) * (3^0) * (5^21) * (7^0) * (11^17) Now, you see it was easy, and, like me, you go fr ... too much quickly. Even without quoting the dictionary we can suspect some mistake. And I hope I will not put my finger where it might hurt in case you have been mentally abused by a sadistic mathematical teacher! That one would ask you what is the value of (3^0) ? and what is the value of (7^0)? And you would panic, thinking like ... hmm... er... 3^2 = 3 * 3, 3^1 = 3, 3^0 = .. !!! . gosh that one is tricky! Well, (a^b) * (a ^ c) = a ^(b + c), that is obvious for a, b, c natural numbers, and if you want keep this true for all integers, you will have that 3^0 = 3^(5 - 5) = 3^(5 +(-5)) = (3^5) *(3^(-5)) = (again to keep that law on the integers) = (3^5)/(3^5) = 1. same reasoning for (7^0) = 1. But 1 is not a prime number, and if we allow it in our coding, it would become ambiguous. In fact 1 has been thrown out of the prime to get a simple enunciation of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic: there is only one decomposition into prime factors. if 1 was a prime number, you can add it, as a factor where you want! That is why, normally, 0 has been represented by non null number, as any number ^ 0 = 1. I say normally, I will now search the dictionary logic-arithmetic (seen as languages), and I pray I did not make a typo! I said: So let us denote the logical and arithmetical symbols v, &, ->, ~, E, A, t, f, "(", ")" =, 0, s, +, * by the first odd numbers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, So, I did not (at least here). 0 has been represented by 23. (If my glasses does not fail me). Let us verify * is 29, + is 27, s is 25, 0 is 23. (A chance my recent cataract surgery has succeed! I have an implant!). So you should have written: 3 ^(2^17) * (3^23) * (5^21) * (7^23) * (11^17) (I guess my talk about was not necessary, .. you did just forget to represent 0, with a notion known by the machine. PS Are "(" and ")" meant to be the same? Ah! Now, that is *my* error, which you should not have copied, given that you detect it. ts, ts, ts So the correct answer is 3 ^(2^17) * (3^23) * (5^21) * (7^23) * (11^19) And so the proof Ax(x=x) (0 = 0) is translated in arithmetic-language in the number 2 ^[(2^9) * (3^2) * (5^17) * (7^2) * (11^21) *(13^2) * (17*17)] * 3 ^ [(2^17) * (3^23) * (5^21) * (7^23) * (11^19)] The only important things is to see that this is just one number, written s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s ... s(0)...), and quite huge (!). Once the machine believes in addition and multiplication, it will denote the proof, and the machine will be able to answer question like "does a variable occur in that proof?", etc. Very good David, welcome to logic! (and sorry for being long, and probably too short in my next answer to the other posts as ... time flies like an arrow). Bruno David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 13 Apr 2017 2:56 p.m., "Bruno Marchal"wrote: On 13 Apr 2017, at 13:35, David Nyman wrote: On 13 April 2017 at 10:09, Bruno Marchal wrote: > Oops. > > Yet, you asked me about the modal logic, and I do think at some point I > have to say precisely what the G box [] is for. It is simple, but long and > tedious. I hope you have not too much difficulties with my previous post. > > To make this accessible, the universal dovetailer argument can be seen as > a layman version of the "machine interview (the G logics and its variants > imposed by itself). (even if it came befoe in my mind when observing the > amoebas). I replace the machine by a human willing to be that he is a > machine, and the thought experiments explains the reversal. The G logics > makes this precise, and more abstract/general, but it relies on the > extra-ordinary works on computability and logic of Gödel and others, which > are not that difficult, but is hard to sell without some precision. Don't > hesitate to encourage me to rewrite a passage in some more shorter way, in > case you lose the line. > Thanks for this Bruno. I suppose I ought to say I have some special interests here. In the first place, my interest is in understanding what ultimately could justify characterising any phenomenon as internal, intrinsic, or subjective; IOW what is called 1p in this forum. The reason is that I think this is an extremely under-examined, not to say almost terminally confused, notion in philosophy of mind and the one where things tend to go wrong at the start. For example, the idea that we can appeal to some "inner" nature of matter as in panpsychism, weaselling about "illusion" or "seeming" in what is variously called materialism, physicalism or naturalism, or the biological obscurantism resorted to by Searle in the face of the Chinese Room argument. This is also part of what I was getting at about unexamined extra presuppositions more or less tacitly assumed in informal reasoning - in this case the implicitly assumed "free lunch" of an inner or subjective point of view absent any explicit supporting rationale. So one of the most interesting things about comp for me has always been the possibility of explicating such a perspective explicitly in terms of a logic particular to the first-person. Always trying to go right at the heart of the problem. OK. The reason I see this as so central is to do with the gap between syntax and semantics, to use Searle's terminology. This gap has struck many as unbridgeable, whether frankly so as in mysterianism (e.g. McGinn) or implicitly in the belief that all further questioning will effectively be terminated by a completed neuroscience. So comp, here will go toward mysterianism. Comp gives a reason why there is a mystery from our limited terrestrial and locally mechanical points of view. So what I find of particular interest in comp is the possibility of bridging this gap in an intelligible manner. OK. But it is necessary a bit subtle. In a nutshell: G cannot bridge the gap. G* can bridge the gap (but G cannot believe in that bridge without becoming inconsistent) S4Grz (the first person) cannot see that there is a gap. They have to dialog. The choice will be, like Paul Valery said, between logic and war. I cited Wittgenstein's idea of the explanatory ladder that is discarded when the sought-after next level is reached. In this case the ladder is the temporary conceptual aid of an external interpretation (aka a view from nowhere) imposed on what is still fundamentally a third-person syntactical procedure. OK. This is, or should be, a provisional "transcendence" from syntax to semantics that is justifiable as an external prosthesis only so long as it leads to a replacement that can do away with the need for it. Hmm You seem to want to replace the Outer-God, by the Inner-God. That is a risky move toward solipsim. S4Grz does not see the gap, but it does not see the other minds either. O K , I've been re-reading the relevant section of T he Amoeba's Secret just to check my intuition about what I said above . There you remind us that in the final analysis the truth of p as distinct from its believability can't be proved in the language of the machine. Hence we postulate it as true by assertion. Let us accept this postulation for the moment as "provisionally" true. Then let us consider the case where a machine " believes " in the existence of a concrete perceptual reality, the 1-truth of which it also 3- asserts, but of course cannot communicate. Concealed i n the gap between the provability and communicability of the 3- belief and the unprovability and incommunicability of the 1- assertion is the elusive transition from syntax to semantics. The latter we will conceive as an additional " interpretation " of the former, but - by assumption of computationalism - any such interpretation *must be
Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 12 April 2017 at 20:59, Bruno Marchalwrote: 2 ^(2^9) * (3^2) * (5^17) * (7^2) * (11^21) *(13^2) * (17*17) * 3 ^ > Oh, I see what you mean: 3 ^(2^17) * (3^0) * (5^21) * (7^0) * (11^17) PS Are "(" and ")" meant to be the same? David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 12 April 2017 at 20:59, Bruno Marchalwrote: > > On 11 Apr 2017, at 18:21, David Nyman wrote: > > On 10 April 2017 at 18:32, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> >> On 10 Apr 2017, at 12:58, David Nyman wrote: >> >> Over the years there have been many references to various modal logics >> deployed in support of the comp theory, in particular for the analysis of >> categorical distinctions between third-person and first-person logical >> consequences. Trouble is, when Bruno refers to these logics in explanation >> of his points, the presentation is so technical that I for one have never >> been able to follow these technicalities sufficiently well for them to >> become intuitively obvious. Hence I've had to come up with my own amateur >> versions. >> >> As David Hilbert famously said "A mathematical theory is not to be >> considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it >> to the first man whom you meet on the street.". I wonder whether it would >> be possible, Bruno, for you to contrive some sort of "man in the street" >> presentation of the key logics deployed in your arguments and why indeed >> you regard them as so central. I suspect that this is closely related to >> the process you describe as interviewing the machine. >> >> >> >> Propositional modal logic is classical propositional logic with one >> symbol more, usually, written with a box "’[]". It denotes an unary >> operation. This means that if A is some formula, like (p -> p), []A is also >> a "grammatically correct formula", meaning that [](p -> p) is a formula. >> >> Originally, modal logic was conceived, like logic itself, by Aristotle, >> although he did not use any special symbol, but he used the word >> "necessary" and "possibly", and used it to make his famous "Aristotelian >> square": >> >> >> Necessary -- not-necessary >> >> >> necessary-not -- not-necessary-not >> >> Now, not-necessary-not is the same as possibly. It is not necessary that >> man is not rational is the same as "it is possible that man is rational". >> "Possibly" is the dual of necessary, and is usually abbreviated by the >> symbol diamond "<>". By definition it is ~[]~. We could have used <> as >> primitive, and define [] by ~[]~, and write Arstotle's square in the >> following way: >> >> Not-possibly-not -- possibly-not >> >> Not-possibly possibly >> >> When the box [] and diamond <> are used to denote "necessity " and >> "possibly" in some metaphysical, sense, we say that it is alethic modal >> logic. Leibniz, much later, will provide a sort of semantic for it by >> interpreting the necessity by "truth in all possible world", and the >> possibility by "truth in at least one world". This can help to agree that >> alethic modal logic, see as a theory (set of axioms), can admit as axioms >> the following formula: >> >> []p -> p (if p is necessary, then it is true) >> []p -> [][]p (if p is necessary then it is necessary that it is necessary) >> <>p -> []<>p (if p is possible, then it is necessary that it is possible) >> >> Now a theory is not just a set of axioms. It is a set of axioms together >> with inference or deduction rules. Most logic have the modus ponens rule, >> from a proof of A and a proof of A -> B, you can deduce B. >> >> The so-called *normal* modal logic have the modus ponens rule and the >> necessitation rule, which says that if you have a proof of A, you can >> deduce []A. They have also (by definition of normal modal logic, the axiom >> [](p -> q) -> ([]p -> []q). In Leibniz theory,/semantics, you can verify >> that if (p -> q) is true in all words, and if p is true in all worlds, then >> q is true in all worlds. OK? >> > > OK > > >> >> Different modal notion will have different axioms, and sometimes >> different inference rules. >> >> Now, modal logic is used in the "machine interview" to simplify a lot the >> situation. The real difficulty, which is more demanding in term of lengthy >> formalities, is the provability logic. Gödel succeeded in translating "A is >> provable", with A put for some arithmetical formula (like "s(0) = 0") in an >> arithmetical formula. That is longer to explain, I will proceed later. >> >> Tell me if you are OK up to now. We might also need to revise a bit >> "simple" classical propositional logic, and to illustrate the difference >> between >> - this theory proves A (for A some being a classical proposition formula, >> like (p -> q)) >> - this model satisfies A. >> > > OK so far. > > >> >> The idea that we can explain things to the man in the street is a bit >> inapt in this context, because the difficulty of logic is that it is >> necessary to NOT understand the formula, and to see that they are >> manipulated formally only. >> > > Yes, I do see the difference. Important point. > > >> So logicians start from what the first man in the street already know, >> and he makes it incomprehensible. >> > >
Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 13 Apr 2017, at 14:11, David Nyman wrote: On 12 April 2017 at 20:59, Bruno Marchalwrote: On 11 Apr 2017, at 18:21, David Nyman wrote: On 10 April 2017 at 18:32, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Apr 2017, at 12:58, David Nyman wrote: Over the years there have been many references to various modal logics deployed in support of the comp theory, in particular for the analysis of categorical distinctions between third-person and first-person logical consequences. Trouble is, when Bruno refers to these logics in explanation of his points, the presentation is so technical that I for one have never been able to follow these technicalities sufficiently well for them to become intuitively obvious. Hence I've had to come up with my own amateur versions. As David Hilbert famously said "A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.". I wonder whether it would be possible, Bruno, for you to contrive some sort of "man in the street" presentation of the key logics deployed in your arguments and why indeed you regard them as so central. I suspect that this is closely related to the process you describe as interviewing the machine. Propositional modal logic is classical propositional logic with one symbol more, usually, written with a box "’[]". It denotes an unary operation. This means that if A is some formula, like (p -> p), []A is also a "grammatically correct formula", meaning that [] (p -> p) is a formula. Originally, modal logic was conceived, like logic itself, by Aristotle, although he did not use any special symbol, but he used the word "necessary" and "possibly", and used it to make his famous "Aristotelian square": Necessary -- not-necessary necessary-not -- not-necessary-not Now, not-necessary-not is the same as possibly. It is not necessary that man is not rational is the same as "it is possible that man is rational". "Possibly" is the dual of necessary, and is usually abbreviated by the symbol diamond "<>". By definition it is ~[]~. We could have used <> as primitive, and define [] by ~[]~, and write Arstotle's square in the following way: Not-possibly-not -- possibly-not Not-possibly possibly When the box [] and diamond <> are used to denote "necessity " and "possibly" in some metaphysical, sense, we say that it is alethic modal logic. Leibniz, much later, will provide a sort of semantic for it by interpreting the necessity by "truth in all possible world", and the possibility by "truth in at least one world". This can help to agree that alethic modal logic, see as a theory (set of axioms), can admit as axioms the following formula: []p -> p (if p is necessary, then it is true) []p -> [][]p (if p is necessary then it is necessary that it is necessary) <>p -> []<>p (if p is possible, then it is necessary that it is possible) Now a theory is not just a set of axioms. It is a set of axioms together with inference or deduction rules. Most logic have the modus ponens rule, from a proof of A and a proof of A -> B, you can deduce B. The so-called *normal* modal logic have the modus ponens rule and the necessitation rule, which says that if you have a proof of A, you can deduce []A. They have also (by definition of normal modal logic, the axiom [](p -> q) -> ([]p -> []q). In Leibniz theory,/ semantics, you can verify that if (p -> q) is true in all words, and if p is true in all worlds, then q is true in all worlds. OK? OK Different modal notion will have different axioms, and sometimes different inference rules. Now, modal logic is used in the "machine interview" to simplify a lot the situation. The real difficulty, which is more demanding in term of lengthy formalities, is the provability logic. Gödel succeeded in translating "A is provable", with A put for some arithmetical formula (like "s(0) = 0") in an arithmetical formula. That is longer to explain, I will proceed later. Tell me if you are OK up to now. We might also need to revise a bit "simple" classical propositional logic, and to illustrate the difference between - this theory proves A (for A some being a classical proposition formula, like (p -> q)) - this model satisfies A. OK so far. The idea that we can explain things to the man in the street is a bit inapt in this context, because the difficulty of logic is that it is necessary to NOT understand the formula, and to see that they are manipulated formally only. Yes, I do see the difference. Important point. So logicians start from what the first man in the street already know, and he makes it incomprehensible. Good, only the incomprehensible is worth our time and effort! For example take the formula (p -> p). the man in the street will be
Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 13 April 2017 at 14:56, Bruno Marchalwrote: Hmm You seem to want to replace the Outer-God, by the Inner-God. That > is a risky move toward solipsim. S4Grz does not see the gap, but it does > not see the other minds either. But that's just it. We cannot ever "see" the other minds, nor even our own for that matter, however much we examine mechanism. But we can believe in them, as we do in our own. Perhaps the least confusing conception of this (following Hoyle's heuristic, which as you know I'm fond of) is to conceive the soul as indeed a soles ipse, though one with innumerable personifications, each profoundly amnesic with respect to the others. But surely that must be true of any computational device capable of compartmentalising one program's states from another's. Is this then the Inner-God? Perhaps, in concrete or perceptual form. But surely the abstract Outer-God is still evidenced in that maximally-compressed creative widget you call the UD? David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 13 Apr 2017, at 13:35, David Nyman wrote: On 13 April 2017 at 10:09, Bruno Marchalwrote: Oops. Yet, you asked me about the modal logic, and I do think at some point I have to say precisely what the G box [] is for. It is simple, but long and tedious. I hope you have not too much difficulties with my previous post. To make this accessible, the universal dovetailer argument can be seen as a layman version of the "machine interview (the G logics and its variants imposed by itself). (even if it came befoe in my mind when observing the amoebas). I replace the machine by a human willing to be that he is a machine, and the thought experiments explains the reversal. The G logics makes this precise, and more abstract/general, but it relies on the extra-ordinary works on computability and logic of Gödel and others, which are not that difficult, but is hard to sell without some precision. Don't hesitate to encourage me to rewrite a passage in some more shorter way, in case you lose the line. Thanks for this Bruno. I suppose I ought to say I have some special interests here. In the first place, my interest is in understanding what ultimately could justify characterising any phenomenon as internal, intrinsic, or subjective; IOW what is called 1p in this forum. The reason is that I think this is an extremely under-examined, not to say almost terminally confused, notion in philosophy of mind and the one where things tend to go wrong at the start. For example, the idea that we can appeal to some "inner" nature of matter as in panpsychism, weaselling about "illusion" or "seeming" in what is variously called materialism, physicalism or naturalism, or the biological obscurantism resorted to by Searle in the face of the Chinese Room argument. This is also part of what I was getting at about unexamined extra presuppositions more or less tacitly assumed in informal reasoning - in this case the implicitly assumed "free lunch" of an inner or subjective point of view absent any explicit supporting rationale. So one of the most interesting things about comp for me has always been the possibility of explicating such a perspective explicitly in terms of a logic particular to the first-person. Always trying to go right at the heart of the problem. OK. The reason I see this as so central is to do with the gap between syntax and semantics, to use Searle's terminology. This gap has struck many as unbridgeable, whether frankly so as in mysterianism (e.g. McGinn) or implicitly in the belief that all further questioning will effectively be terminated by a completed neuroscience. So comp, here will go toward mysterianism. Comp gives a reason why there is a mystery from our limited terrestrial and locally mechanical points of view. So what I find of particular interest in comp is the possibility of bridging this gap in an intelligible manner. OK. But it is necessary a bit subtle. In a nutshell: G cannot bridge the gap. G* can bridge the gap (but G cannot believe in that bridge without becoming inconsistent) S4Grz (the first person) cannot see that there is a gap. They have to dialog. The choice will be, like Paul Valery said, between logic and war. I cited Wittgenstein's idea of the explanatory ladder that is discarded when the sought-after next level is reached. In this case the ladder is the temporary conceptual aid of an external interpretation (aka a view from nowhere) imposed on what is still fundamentally a third-person syntactical procedure. OK. This is, or should be, a provisional "transcendence" from syntax to semantics that is justifiable as an external prosthesis only so long as it leads to a replacement that can do away with the need for it. Hmm You seem to want to replace the Outer-God, by the Inner-God. That is a risky move toward solipsim. S4Grz does not see the gap, but it does not see the other minds either. The needed replacement is an intelligibly internalised semantics, or self-interpretation, which ISTM must be the very nub of a first- personal logic. OK. And as you know, that will be given, at the meta-level, by S4Grz. But the machine cannot involves its own S4Grz box. From its machine's view, it has simply no name. It is not genuinely Turing emulable. The machine can discover it by *postulating* computationalism. If this can be explicated in terms of a logic that is itself emulable in computation, then - on the comp assumption that we occupy the selfsame first-personal situation - the perceptual facts of an inter-subjective concrete reality can then retroactively illuminate the theoretical framework that has explicated them. Through the bet in a sharable reality, but at the price of having to justify its physical aspect without invoking a physical reality. Equally, denying such facts becomes an effective nullification
Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 12 April 2017 at 20:59, Bruno Marchalwrote: > > On 11 Apr 2017, at 18:21, David Nyman wrote: > > On 10 April 2017 at 18:32, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> >> On 10 Apr 2017, at 12:58, David Nyman wrote: >> >> Over the years there have been many references to various modal logics >> deployed in support of the comp theory, in particular for the analysis of >> categorical distinctions between third-person and first-person logical >> consequences. Trouble is, when Bruno refers to these logics in explanation >> of his points, the presentation is so technical that I for one have never >> been able to follow these technicalities sufficiently well for them to >> become intuitively obvious. Hence I've had to come up with my own amateur >> versions. >> >> As David Hilbert famously said "A mathematical theory is not to be >> considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it >> to the first man whom you meet on the street.". I wonder whether it would >> be possible, Bruno, for you to contrive some sort of "man in the street" >> presentation of the key logics deployed in your arguments and why indeed >> you regard them as so central. I suspect that this is closely related to >> the process you describe as interviewing the machine. >> >> >> >> Propositional modal logic is classical propositional logic with one >> symbol more, usually, written with a box "’[]". It denotes an unary >> operation. This means that if A is some formula, like (p -> p), []A is also >> a "grammatically correct formula", meaning that [](p -> p) is a formula. >> >> Originally, modal logic was conceived, like logic itself, by Aristotle, >> although he did not use any special symbol, but he used the word >> "necessary" and "possibly", and used it to make his famous "Aristotelian >> square": >> >> >> Necessary -- not-necessary >> >> >> necessary-not -- not-necessary-not >> >> Now, not-necessary-not is the same as possibly. It is not necessary that >> man is not rational is the same as "it is possible that man is rational". >> "Possibly" is the dual of necessary, and is usually abbreviated by the >> symbol diamond "<>". By definition it is ~[]~. We could have used <> as >> primitive, and define [] by ~[]~, and write Arstotle's square in the >> following way: >> >> Not-possibly-not -- possibly-not >> >> Not-possibly possibly >> >> When the box [] and diamond <> are used to denote "necessity " and >> "possibly" in some metaphysical, sense, we say that it is alethic modal >> logic. Leibniz, much later, will provide a sort of semantic for it by >> interpreting the necessity by "truth in all possible world", and the >> possibility by "truth in at least one world". This can help to agree that >> alethic modal logic, see as a theory (set of axioms), can admit as axioms >> the following formula: >> >> []p -> p (if p is necessary, then it is true) >> []p -> [][]p (if p is necessary then it is necessary that it is necessary) >> <>p -> []<>p (if p is possible, then it is necessary that it is possible) >> >> Now a theory is not just a set of axioms. It is a set of axioms together >> with inference or deduction rules. Most logic have the modus ponens rule, >> from a proof of A and a proof of A -> B, you can deduce B. >> >> The so-called *normal* modal logic have the modus ponens rule and the >> necessitation rule, which says that if you have a proof of A, you can >> deduce []A. They have also (by definition of normal modal logic, the axiom >> [](p -> q) -> ([]p -> []q). In Leibniz theory,/semantics, you can verify >> that if (p -> q) is true in all words, and if p is true in all worlds, then >> q is true in all worlds. OK? >> > > OK > > >> >> Different modal notion will have different axioms, and sometimes >> different inference rules. >> >> Now, modal logic is used in the "machine interview" to simplify a lot the >> situation. The real difficulty, which is more demanding in term of lengthy >> formalities, is the provability logic. Gödel succeeded in translating "A is >> provable", with A put for some arithmetical formula (like "s(0) = 0") in an >> arithmetical formula. That is longer to explain, I will proceed later. >> >> Tell me if you are OK up to now. We might also need to revise a bit >> "simple" classical propositional logic, and to illustrate the difference >> between >> - this theory proves A (for A some being a classical proposition formula, >> like (p -> q)) >> - this model satisfies A. >> > > OK so far. > > >> >> The idea that we can explain things to the man in the street is a bit >> inapt in this context, because the difficulty of logic is that it is >> necessary to NOT understand the formula, and to see that they are >> manipulated formally only. >> > > Yes, I do see the difference. Important point. > > >> So logicians start from what the first man in the street already know, >> and he makes it incomprehensible. >> > >
Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 13 April 2017 at 10:09, Bruno Marchalwrote: > Oops. > > Yet, you asked me about the modal logic, and I do think at some point I > have to say precisely what the G box [] is for. It is simple, but long and > tedious. I hope you have not too much difficulties with my previous post. > > To make this accessible, the universal dovetailer argument can be seen as > a layman version of the "machine interview (the G logics and its variants > imposed by itself). (even if it came befoe in my mind when observing the > amoebas). I replace the machine by a human willing to be that he is a > machine, and the thought experiments explains the reversal. The G logics > makes this precise, and more abstract/general, but it relies on the > extra-ordinary works on computability and logic of Gödel and others, which > are not that difficult, but is hard to sell without some precision. Don't > hesitate to encourage me to rewrite a passage in some more shorter way, in > case you lose the line. > Thanks for this Bruno. I suppose I ought to say I have some special interests here. In the first place, my interest is in understanding what ultimately could justify characterising any phenomenon as internal, intrinsic, or subjective; IOW what is called 1p in this forum. The reason is that I think this is an extremely under-examined, not to say almost terminally confused, notion in philosophy of mind and the one where things tend to go wrong at the start. For example, the idea that we can appeal to some "inner" nature of matter as in panpsychism, weaselling about "illusion" or "seeming" in what is variously called materialism, physicalism or naturalism, or the biological obscurantism resorted to by Searle in the face of the Chinese Room argument. This is also part of what I was getting at about unexamined extra presuppositions more or less tacitly assumed in informal reasoning - in this case the implicitly assumed "free lunch" of an inner or subjective point of view absent any explicit supporting rationale. So one of the most interesting things about comp for me has always been the possibility of explicating such a perspective explicitly in terms of a logic particular to the first-person. The reason I see this as so central is to do with the gap between syntax and semantics, to use Searle's terminology. This gap has struck many as unbridgeable, whether frankly so as in mysterianism (e.g. McGinn) or implicitly in the belief that all further questioning will effectively be terminated by a completed neuroscience. So what I find of particular interest in comp is the possibility of bridging this gap in an intelligible manner. I cited Wittgenstein's idea of the explanatory ladder that is discarded when the sought-after next level is reached. In this case the ladder is the temporary conceptual aid of an external interpretation (aka a view from nowhere) imposed on what is still fundamentally a third-person syntactical procedure. This is, or should be, a provisional "transcendence" from syntax to semantics that is justifiable as an external prosthesis only so long as it leads to a replacement that can do away with the need for it. The needed replacement is an intelligibly internalised semantics, or self-interpretation, which ISTM must be the very nub of a first-personal logic. If this can be explicated in terms of a logic that is itself emulable in computation, then - on the comp assumption that we occupy the selfsame first-personal situation - the perceptual facts of an inter-subjective concrete reality can then retroactively illuminate the theoretical framework that has explicated them. Equally, denying such facts becomes an effective nullification of the sense of any framework paradoxically adduced in their support (as in any Churchland or Dennett-style weaselling about "illusions"). I think these aspects may be so important to communicating these ideas to a wider appreciation, as opposed to a technical/professional audience, that if at all possible some Hilbert-style man-in-the-street way of encapsulating their most essential features, without involving a detailed point for point grasp of the bulk of the technicalities, would be valuable indeed. By the most essential features I mean for example the distinctions between belief (or judgement) and perception, communicability and incommunicability, formal and informal. No doubt you might point to others. The UDA, while valuable in itself, assumes the first-person position (as indeed it is entitled to do on the comp assumption) but without providing any explicit rationale for it. Of course, that is the intended function of AUDA and the machine interviews. But then that takes us immediately into the complexities of the formidable technical batteries of mathematical logic. Is it not possible that there might be some intermediate pedagogical step? David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe
Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 11 Apr 2017, at 18:21, David Nyman wrote: On 10 April 2017 at 18:32, Bruno Marchalwrote: On 10 Apr 2017, at 12:58, David Nyman wrote: Good, but I guess I was also asking for some sort of shortcut to the intuitive power of all this, because if the only route to this is more of the above (however interesting in itself) then the point will go on being lost not only on the majority in this forum (unless I'm very much mistaken) but a fortiori on any possible wider audience. Which would be a pity. Oops. Yet, you asked me about the modal logic, and I do think at some point I have to say precisely what the G box [] is for. It is simple, but long and tedious. I hope you have not too much difficulties with my previous post. To make this accessible, the universal dovetailer argument can be seen as a layman version of the "machine interview (the G logics and its variants imposed by itself). (even if it came befoe in my mind when observing the amoebas). I replace the machine by a human willing to be that he is a machine, and the thought experiments explains the reversal. The G logics makes this precise, and more abstract/general, but it relies on the extra-ordinary works on computability and logic of Gödel and others, which are not that difficult, but is hard to sell without some precision. Don't hesitate to encourage me to rewrite a passage in some more shorter way, in case you lose the line. Bruno David Bruno PS I guess you have missed my early introduction to modal logic on this list, many years ago! No problem. Thanks in advance. David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything- l...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 11 Apr 2017, at 18:21, David Nyman wrote: On 10 April 2017 at 18:32, Bruno Marchalwrote: On 10 Apr 2017, at 12:58, David Nyman wrote: Over the years there have been many references to various modal logics deployed in support of the comp theory, in particular for the analysis of categorical distinctions between third-person and first-person logical consequences. Trouble is, when Bruno refers to these logics in explanation of his points, the presentation is so technical that I for one have never been able to follow these technicalities sufficiently well for them to become intuitively obvious. Hence I've had to come up with my own amateur versions. As David Hilbert famously said "A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.". I wonder whether it would be possible, Bruno, for you to contrive some sort of "man in the street" presentation of the key logics deployed in your arguments and why indeed you regard them as so central. I suspect that this is closely related to the process you describe as interviewing the machine. Propositional modal logic is classical propositional logic with one symbol more, usually, written with a box "’[]". It denotes an unary operation. This means that if A is some formula, like (p -> p), []A is also a "grammatically correct formula", meaning that [](p -> p) is a formula. Originally, modal logic was conceived, like logic itself, by Aristotle, although he did not use any special symbol, but he used the word "necessary" and "possibly", and used it to make his famous "Aristotelian square": Necessary -- not-necessary necessary-not -- not-necessary-not Now, not-necessary-not is the same as possibly. It is not necessary that man is not rational is the same as "it is possible that man is rational". "Possibly" is the dual of necessary, and is usually abbreviated by the symbol diamond "<>". By definition it is ~[]~. We could have used <> as primitive, and define [] by ~[]~, and write Arstotle's square in the following way: Not-possibly-not -- possibly-not Not-possibly possibly When the box [] and diamond <> are used to denote "necessity " and "possibly" in some metaphysical, sense, we say that it is alethic modal logic. Leibniz, much later, will provide a sort of semantic for it by interpreting the necessity by "truth in all possible world", and the possibility by "truth in at least one world". This can help to agree that alethic modal logic, see as a theory (set of axioms), can admit as axioms the following formula: []p -> p (if p is necessary, then it is true) []p -> [][]p (if p is necessary then it is necessary that it is necessary) <>p -> []<>p (if p is possible, then it is necessary that it is possible) Now a theory is not just a set of axioms. It is a set of axioms together with inference or deduction rules. Most logic have the modus ponens rule, from a proof of A and a proof of A -> B, you can deduce B. The so-called *normal* modal logic have the modus ponens rule and the necessitation rule, which says that if you have a proof of A, you can deduce []A. They have also (by definition of normal modal logic, the axiom [](p -> q) -> ([]p -> []q). In Leibniz theory,/ semantics, you can verify that if (p -> q) is true in all words, and if p is true in all worlds, then q is true in all worlds. OK? OK Different modal notion will have different axioms, and sometimes different inference rules. Now, modal logic is used in the "machine interview" to simplify a lot the situation. The real difficulty, which is more demanding in term of lengthy formalities, is the provability logic. Gödel succeeded in translating "A is provable", with A put for some arithmetical formula (like "s(0) = 0") in an arithmetical formula. That is longer to explain, I will proceed later. Tell me if you are OK up to now. We might also need to revise a bit "simple" classical propositional logic, and to illustrate the difference between - this theory proves A (for A some being a classical proposition formula, like (p -> q)) - this model satisfies A. OK so far. The idea that we can explain things to the man in the street is a bit inapt in this context, because the difficulty of logic is that it is necessary to NOT understand the formula, and to see that they are manipulated formally only. Yes, I do see the difference. Important point. So logicians start from what the first man in the street already know, and he makes it incomprehensible. Good, only the incomprehensible is worth our time and effort! For example take the formula (p -> p). the man in the street will be OK with that formula being a tautology, that is an always true formula. (p -> p) seems obviously true whatever
Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 4/11/2017 9:21 AM, David Nyman wrote: Yet, if the current theory is the giving of the two axioms: A1 p -> (q -> p) A2 (p -> (q -> r) ) -> ((p -> q) -> (p -> r)) With the inference rules modus ponens, and some substitution rule, it will be rather difficult to find a proof of (p -> p). But here, all what the man in the street is asked is in 1) understanding that this is difficult, and 2) being able to verify if a proof is indeed a proof, that is, a sequence of formula which starts from some axiom, and use only axiom, or formula derived from the axioms using only the given inference rule. Even that can be very complex, and usually we add comment to help (like the comment in a program). Yes, this is important. Failing to do this, even in informal reasoning, leads directly to question begging, as I'm fond of pointing out. All the more pernicious when (as is usual) the smuggling in of auxiliary assumptions is almost always tacit and unrecognised. Here is a proof of (p -> p): But why choose A1 and A2? Why not make (p -> p) and axiom. It's certainly more obvious than either A1 of A2, so if it were not a theorem you'd got back choose different axioms. Actually I know why; but my point is that logic is intended to formalize sound inference - but because it's formal it is only "t" preserving, not truth preserving. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 10 April 2017 at 18:32, Bruno Marchalwrote: > > On 10 Apr 2017, at 12:58, David Nyman wrote: > > Over the years there have been many references to various modal logics > deployed in support of the comp theory, in particular for the analysis of > categorical distinctions between third-person and first-person logical > consequences. Trouble is, when Bruno refers to these logics in explanation > of his points, the presentation is so technical that I for one have never > been able to follow these technicalities sufficiently well for them to > become intuitively obvious. Hence I've had to come up with my own amateur > versions. > > As David Hilbert famously said "A mathematical theory is not to be > considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it > to the first man whom you meet on the street.". I wonder whether it would > be possible, Bruno, for you to contrive some sort of "man in the street" > presentation of the key logics deployed in your arguments and why indeed > you regard them as so central. I suspect that this is closely related to > the process you describe as interviewing the machine. > > > > Propositional modal logic is classical propositional logic with one symbol > more, usually, written with a box "’[]". It denotes an unary operation. > This means that if A is some formula, like (p -> p), []A is also a > "grammatically correct formula", meaning that [](p -> p) is a formula. > > Originally, modal logic was conceived, like logic itself, by Aristotle, > although he did not use any special symbol, but he used the word > "necessary" and "possibly", and used it to make his famous "Aristotelian > square": > > > Necessary -- not-necessary > > > necessary-not -- not-necessary-not > > Now, not-necessary-not is the same as possibly. It is not necessary that > man is not rational is the same as "it is possible that man is rational". > "Possibly" is the dual of necessary, and is usually abbreviated by the > symbol diamond "<>". By definition it is ~[]~. We could have used <> as > primitive, and define [] by ~[]~, and write Arstotle's square in the > following way: > > Not-possibly-not -- possibly-not > > Not-possibly possibly > > When the box [] and diamond <> are used to denote "necessity " and > "possibly" in some metaphysical, sense, we say that it is alethic modal > logic. Leibniz, much later, will provide a sort of semantic for it by > interpreting the necessity by "truth in all possible world", and the > possibility by "truth in at least one world". This can help to agree that > alethic modal logic, see as a theory (set of axioms), can admit as axioms > the following formula: > > []p -> p (if p is necessary, then it is true) > []p -> [][]p (if p is necessary then it is necessary that it is necessary) > <>p -> []<>p (if p is possible, then it is necessary that it is possible) > > Now a theory is not just a set of axioms. It is a set of axioms together > with inference or deduction rules. Most logic have the modus ponens rule, > from a proof of A and a proof of A -> B, you can deduce B. > > The so-called *normal* modal logic have the modus ponens rule and the > necessitation rule, which says that if you have a proof of A, you can > deduce []A. They have also (by definition of normal modal logic, the axiom > [](p -> q) -> ([]p -> []q). In Leibniz theory,/semantics, you can verify > that if (p -> q) is true in all words, and if p is true in all worlds, then > q is true in all worlds. OK? > OK > > Different modal notion will have different axioms, and sometimes different > inference rules. > > Now, modal logic is used in the "machine interview" to simplify a lot the > situation. The real difficulty, which is more demanding in term of lengthy > formalities, is the provability logic. Gödel succeeded in translating "A is > provable", with A put for some arithmetical formula (like "s(0) = 0") in an > arithmetical formula. That is longer to explain, I will proceed later. > > Tell me if you are OK up to now. We might also need to revise a bit > "simple" classical propositional logic, and to illustrate the difference > between > - this theory proves A (for A some being a classical proposition formula, > like (p -> q)) > - this model satisfies A. > OK so far. > > The idea that we can explain things to the man in the street is a bit > inapt in this context, because the difficulty of logic is that it is > necessary to NOT understand the formula, and to see that they are > manipulated formally only. > Yes, I do see the difference. Important point. > So logicians start from what the first man in the street already know, and > he makes it incomprehensible. > Good, only the incomprehensible is worth our time and effort! > For example take the formula (p -> p). the man in the street will be OK > with that formula being a tautology, that is an always true formula. (p -> > p) seems obviously true
Re: Request to Bruno re modal logic
On 10 Apr 2017, at 12:58, David Nyman wrote: Over the years there have been many references to various modal logics deployed in support of the comp theory, in particular for the analysis of categorical distinctions between third-person and first- person logical consequences. Trouble is, when Bruno refers to these logics in explanation of his points, the presentation is so technical that I for one have never been able to follow these technicalities sufficiently well for them to become intuitively obvious. Hence I've had to come up with my own amateur versions. As David Hilbert famously said "A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.". I wonder whether it would be possible, Bruno, for you to contrive some sort of "man in the street" presentation of the key logics deployed in your arguments and why indeed you regard them as so central. I suspect that this is closely related to the process you describe as interviewing the machine. Propositional modal logic is classical propositional logic with one symbol more, usually, written with a box "’[]". It denotes an unary operation. This means that if A is some formula, like (p -> p), []A is also a "grammatically correct formula", meaning that [](p -> p) is a formula. Originally, modal logic was conceived, like logic itself, by Aristotle, although he did not use any special symbol, but he used the word "necessary" and "possibly", and used it to make his famous "Aristotelian square": Necessary -- not-necessary necessary-not -- not-necessary-not Now, not-necessary-not is the same as possibly. It is not necessary that man is not rational is the same as "it is possible that man is rational". "Possibly" is the dual of necessary, and is usually abbreviated by the symbol diamond "<>". By definition it is ~[]~. We could have used <> as primitive, and define [] by ~[]~, and write Arstotle's square in the following way: Not-possibly-not -- possibly-not Not-possibly possibly When the box [] and diamond <> are used to denote "necessity " and "possibly" in some metaphysical, sense, we say that it is alethic modal logic. Leibniz, much later, will provide a sort of semantic for it by interpreting the necessity by "truth in all possible world", and the possibility by "truth in at least one world". This can help to agree that alethic modal logic, see as a theory (set of axioms), can admit as axioms the following formula: []p -> p (if p is necessary, then it is true) []p -> [][]p (if p is necessary then it is necessary that it is necessary) <>p -> []<>p (if p is possible, then it is necessary that it is possible) Now a theory is not just a set of axioms. It is a set of axioms together with inference or deduction rules. Most logic have the modus ponens rule, from a proof of A and a proof of A -> B, you can deduce B. The so-called *normal* modal logic have the modus ponens rule and the necessitation rule, which says that if you have a proof of A, you can deduce []A. They have also (by definition of normal modal logic, the axiom [](p -> q) -> ([]p -> []q). In Leibniz theory,/semantics, you can verify that if (p -> q) is true in all words, and if p is true in all worlds, then q is true in all worlds. OK? Different modal notion will have different axioms, and sometimes different inference rules. Now, modal logic is used in the "machine interview" to simplify a lot the situation. The real difficulty, which is more demanding in term of lengthy formalities, is the provability logic. Gödel succeeded in translating "A is provable", with A put for some arithmetical formula (like "s(0) = 0") in an arithmetical formula. That is longer to explain, I will proceed later. Tell me if you are OK up to now. We might also need to revise a bit "simple" classical propositional logic, and to illustrate the difference between - this theory proves A (for A some being a classical proposition formula, like (p -> q)) - this model satisfies A. The idea that we can explain things to the man in the street is a bit inapt in this context, because the difficulty of logic is that it is necessary to NOT understand the formula, and to see that they are manipulated formally only. So logicians start from what the first man in the street already know, and he makes it incomprehensible. For example take the formula (p -> p). the man in the street will be OK with that formula being a tautology, that is an always true formula. (p -> p) seems obviously true whatever proposition is represented by p. If p = "it rains", it seems obvious that if it rains then it rains, etc. OK? Yet, if the current theory is the giving of the two axioms: A1 p -> (q -> p) A2 (p -> (q -> r) ) -> ((p -> q) -> (p -> r)) With the
Request to Bruno re modal logic
Over the years there have been many references to various modal logics deployed in support of the comp theory, in particular for the analysis of categorical distinctions between third-person and first-person logical consequences. Trouble is, when Bruno refers to these logics in explanation of his points, the presentation is so technical that I for one have never been able to follow these technicalities sufficiently well for them to become intuitively obvious. Hence I've had to come up with my own amateur versions. As David Hilbert famously said "A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.". I wonder whether it would be possible, Bruno, for you to contrive some sort of "man in the street" presentation of the key logics deployed in your arguments and why indeed you regard them as so central. I suspect that this is closely related to the process you describe as interviewing the machine. Thanks in advance. David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.