Re: Lobian Machine

2006-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
The original source is the paper by M. H. Loeb (also written Lob or Löb) LÖB M. H., 1955, Solution of a Problem of Leon Henkin, Journal of Symbolic Logic, 20, pp. 115-118. A good introductory book is: SMULLYAN R., 1987, Forever Undecided, Alfred A. Knopf, New York. Good textbooks on

Re: belief, faith, truth

2006-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 25-févr.-06, à 21:03, uv wrote: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on February 25, 2006, amongst a lot of other things The practical, terrestrial act of faith consists to say yes to a surgeon which proposes you an artificial digital brain/body. It is a belief in a form or

Re: Vimalakirti Machines

2006-03-01 Thread daddycaylor
Bruno, In this context, what are you taking to be the truth value of the empty set? In other words, how can you say that {Empty set} p = {Empty set} ? I thought that you were taking to operate on propositions, not sets. Doesn't {Empty set} p mean saying nothing in conjunction with the truth