Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Oct 2013, at 22:57, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 03:02:55PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Oct 2013, at 22:50, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 03:09:03PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Oct 2013, at 23:03, Russell Standish wrote: In fact

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Oct 2013, at 23:42, meekerdb wrote: On 10/23/2013 5:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Oct 2013, at 19:01, meekerdb wrote: On 10/22/2013 5:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Oct 2013, at 20:07, meekerdb wrote: On 10/20/2013 11:12 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Oct 2013, at 19:01, meekerdb wrote: On 10/22/2013 5:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Oct 2013, at 20:07, meekerdb wrote: On 10/20/2013 11:12 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:09:59PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: Consistency is []p ~[]~p. I was saying []p ~p, ie

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Oct 2013, at 19:07, meekerdb wrote: On 10/22/2013 6:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: []p - p is correctness. It is trivially true for the machine I consider, because they are correct by definition/choice. Consistency is correctness on the f: []f - f. It is a very particular case of

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Oct 2013, at 22:50, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 03:09:03PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Oct 2013, at 23:03, Russell Standish wrote: In fact p- []p characterizes sigma_1 completeness (by a result by Albert Visser), and that is why to get the proba on the

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-23 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 03:02:55PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Oct 2013, at 22:50, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 03:09:03PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Oct 2013, at 23:03, Russell Standish wrote: In fact p- []p characterizes sigma_1 completeness (by a

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-23 Thread meekerdb
On 10/23/2013 5:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Oct 2013, at 19:01, meekerdb wrote: On 10/22/2013 5:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Oct 2013, at 20:07, meekerdb wrote: On 10/20/2013 11:12 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:09:59PM -0700, meekerdb wrote:

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Oct 2013, at 17:59, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 21 Oct 2013, at 08:24, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 04:48:42AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: Disclaimer: No idea if I am

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Oct 2013, at 20:07, meekerdb wrote: On 10/20/2013 11:12 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:09:59PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: Consistency is []p ~[]~p. I was saying []p ~p, ie mistaken belief. ISTM that Bruno equivocates and [] sometimes means believes and

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Oct 2013, at 20:07, meekerdb wrote: On 10/20/2013 11:12 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:09:59PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: Consistency is []p ~[]~p. I was saying []p ~p, ie mistaken belief. ISTM that Bruno equivocates and [] sometimes means believes and

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Oct 2013, at 23:03, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 03:52:14PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Oct 2013, at 23:15, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 06:22:15PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Oct 2013, at 12:01, Russell Standish wrote:

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Oct 2013, at 23:34, meekerdb wrote: On 10/21/2013 7:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Oct 2013, at 05:09, meekerdb wrote: On 10/20/2013 2:15 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 06:22:15PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Oct 2013, at 12:01, Russell Standish wrote:

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-22 Thread meekerdb
On 10/22/2013 5:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Oct 2013, at 20:07, meekerdb wrote: On 10/20/2013 11:12 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:09:59PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: Consistency is []p ~[]~p. I was saying []p ~p, ie mistaken belief. ISTM that Bruno equivocates

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-22 Thread meekerdb
On 10/22/2013 6:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: []p - p is correctness. It is trivially true for the machine I consider, because they are correct by definition/choice. Consistency is correctness on the f: []f - f. It is a very particular case of correctness. There are machines which are not

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-22 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 22 Oct 2013, at 03:21, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 21 Oct 2013, at 04:48, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: Disclaimer: No idea if I

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-22 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 03:09:03PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Oct 2013, at 23:03, Russell Standish wrote: In fact p- []p characterizes sigma_1 completeness (by a result by Albert Visser), and that is why to get the proba on the UD*, we use the intensional nuance []p t (= proba)

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:09:59PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: Consistency is []p ~[]~p. I was saying []p ~p, ie mistaken belief. ISTM that Bruno equivocates and [] sometimes means believes and sometimes provable. And I'm doing the same. It's not such an issue - a mathematician will only

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 04:48:42AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: Disclaimer: No idea if I am even on the same planet on which this discussion is taking place. So pardon my questions and confusions: You and me both - we're all students here :). I'm just rather doubtful about an

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Oct 2013, at 23:15, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 06:22:15PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Oct 2013, at 12:01, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:52:41AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: We have always that [o]p - [o][o]p (like we have also always

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Oct 2013, at 21:03, John Mikes wrote: Brent: I like to write insted of we know - we THINK we know and it goes further: Bruno's provable' - in many cases - applies evidences (to 'prove') from conventional science (reductionist figments) we still THINK we know. Not when doing

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Oct 2013, at 05:09, meekerdb wrote: On 10/20/2013 2:15 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 06:22:15PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Oct 2013, at 12:01, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:52:41AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: We have always that [o]p

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-21 Thread meekerdb
On 10/20/2013 11:12 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:09:59PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: Consistency is []p ~[]~p. I was saying []p ~p, ie mistaken belief. ISTM that Bruno equivocates and [] sometimes means believes and sometimes provable. And I'm doing the same. It's not

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:07:04AM -0700, meekerdb wrote: On 10/20/2013 11:12 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:09:59PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: Consistency is []p ~[]~p. I was saying []p ~p, ie mistaken belief. ISTM that Bruno equivocates and [] sometimes means believes

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 03:52:14PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Oct 2013, at 23:15, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 06:22:15PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Oct 2013, at 12:01, Russell Standish wrote: Obviously, one cannot prove []p p, for very many

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-21 Thread John Mikes
Bruno wrote *Not when doing science. (pseudo-science and pseudo-religion only).* * * Science as applied to the so far learned fraction of the infinite complexity? If there ever was a 'pseudo-science' - that is one (I mean the conventional pretension used for those ALMOST perfect technicalities

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-21 Thread LizR
On 22 October 2013 10:51, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: About 17? I am no mathematician, so a fantasy of math-systems is free to me. I figure a dynamic number-world flipping between series of its own integers, like the base of 'your' arithmetic and another one like expressable as 1.7,

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 03:21:48AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: [](p - ~[]p) - [](p - ~[]f) Gödel fixed point [](p = [] ¬p) = [](p= []⊥) Yes, that's the kind of thing I think we're talking about. Talk

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-20 Thread meekerdb
On 10/19/2013 9:21 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:16 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Bruno seems to equate know with provable and true. I'm not sure that is precise. To me, Bruno's use mostly mirrors the use in

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Oct 2013, at 00:08, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:17:17PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Oct 2013, at 11:51, Russell Standish wrote: I understand Bp can be read as I can prove p, and Bpp as I know p. But in the case, the difference between Bp and Bpp is

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-20 Thread meekerdb
On 10/19/2013 11:38 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What I still get stuck on is that we may know many things, but the only things we can know we know are essentially private things things, such as the fact that we are conscious, or what the colour red seems like to us. Are you leaving out the axioms

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Oct 2013, at 00:48, Russell Standish wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 03:16:52PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: Bruno seems to equate know with provable and true. So we know that 17 is prime. In fact we *know* infinitely many theorems that are provable, but which no one will ever prove - which

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-20 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:52:41AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: We have always that [o]p - [o][o]p (like we have also always that []p - [][]p) There may be things we can prove, but about which we are in fact mistaken, ie []p -p Obviously, one cannot prove []p p, for very many

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Oct 2013, at 12:01, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:52:41AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: We have always that [o]p - [o][o]p (like we have also always that []p - [][]p) There may be things we can prove, but about which we are in fact mistaken, ie []p -p That

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-20 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 06:22:15PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Oct 2013, at 12:01, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:52:41AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: We have always that [o]p - [o][o]p (like we have also always that []p - [][]p) There may be things we

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-20 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Disclaimer: No idea if I am even on the same planet on which this discussion is taking place. So pardon my questions and confusions: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.auwrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 06:22:15PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Oct 2013,

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-20 Thread meekerdb
On 10/20/2013 2:15 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 06:22:15PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Oct 2013, at 12:01, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:52:41AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: We have always that [o]p - [o][o]p (like we have also always that

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-19 Thread meekerdb
On 10/19/2013 3:08 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:17:17PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Oct 2013, at 11:51, Russell Standish wrote: I understand Bp can be read as I can prove p, and Bpp as I know p. But in the case, the difference between Bp and Bpp is entirely in

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-19 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 03:16:52PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: Bruno seems to equate know with provable and true. So we know that 17 is prime. In fact we *know* infinitely many theorems that are provable, but which no one will ever prove - which seems like a strange meaning of know. I agree

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-19 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:16 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Bruno seems to equate know with provable and true. I'm not sure that is precise. To me, Bruno's use mostly mirrors the use in the Plato dialogues as knowledge is true belief accounted for. So X knows p is true iff: p is

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Oct 2013, at 22:02, meekerdb wrote: On 10/9/2013 12:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Oct 2013, at 20:35, meekerdb wrote: On 10/8/2013 2:51 AM, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 10:20:14AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Oct 2013, at 07:36, Russell Standish wrote:

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Oct 2013, at 20:35, meekerdb wrote: On 10/8/2013 2:51 AM, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 10:20:14AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Oct 2013, at 07:36, Russell Standish wrote: ... and Bpp as he knows p, so the person order of the pronoun is also not relevant. Yes,

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-09 Thread meekerdb
On 10/9/2013 12:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Oct 2013, at 20:35, meekerdb wrote: On 10/8/2013 2:51 AM, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 10:20:14AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Oct 2013, at 07:36, Russell Standish wrote: ... and Bpp as he knows p, so the person

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-09 Thread Russell Standish
Thanks for this response. It'll take me a while to digest, but I'll get back with the inevitable questions :). On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:17:17PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Oct 2013, at 11:51, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 10:20:14AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-08 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 10:20:14AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Oct 2013, at 07:36, Russell Standish wrote: Unfortunately, the thread about AUDA and its relation to pronouncs got mixed up with another thread, and thus got delete on my computer. Picking up from where we left off, I'm

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Oct 2013, at 11:51, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 10:20:14AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Oct 2013, at 07:36, Russell Standish wrote: Unfortunately, the thread about AUDA and its relation to pronouncs got mixed up with another thread, and thus got delete on

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-08 Thread meekerdb
On 10/8/2013 2:51 AM, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 10:20:14AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Oct 2013, at 07:36, Russell Standish wrote: ... and Bpp as he knows p, so the person order of the pronoun is also not relevant. Yes, you can read that in that way, but you get

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-07 Thread meekerdb
On 10/6/2013 10:36 PM, Russell Standish wrote: Unfortunately, the thread about AUDA and its relation to pronouncs got mixed up with another thread, and thus got delete on my computer. Picking up from where we left off, I'm still trying to see the relationship between Bp, Bpp, 1-I, 3-I and the

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Oct 2013, at 07:36, Russell Standish wrote: Unfortunately, the thread about AUDA and its relation to pronouncs got mixed up with another thread, and thus got delete on my computer. Picking up from where we left off, I'm still trying to see the relationship between Bp, Bpp, 1-I, 3-I and

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Oct 2013, at 10:20, Bruno Marchal wrote (to Russell): Yes, you can read that in that way, but you get only the 3-view of the 1-view. I meant: you get only the 3-view ON the 1-view. Not of. Sorry, Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because

AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-06 Thread Russell Standish
Unfortunately, the thread about AUDA and its relation to pronouncs got mixed up with another thread, and thus got delete on my computer. Picking up from where we left off, I'm still trying to see the relationship between Bp, Bpp, 1-I, 3-I and the plain ordinary I pronoun in English. I understand