Re: All of computation and human reasoning can be encoded as finite string transformations --- Quine

On 4/21/2025 4:48 AM, Mikko wrote:

On 2025-04-20 17:53:43 +0000, olcott said:
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On 4/20/2025 11:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:

On 4/20/25 tic 1:33 AM, olcott wrote:

No counter-example to the above statement exists for all
computation and all human reasoning that can be expressed
in language.

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But can all Human reasoning be actually expressed in language?
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For instance, how do you express the smell of a rose in a finite string so you can do reasoning with it?
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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analytic-synthetic/
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all human reasoning that can be expressed in language
<is> the {analytic} side of the analytic/synthetic distinction
that humanity has totally screwed up since
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Two Dogmas of Empiricism
Willard Van Orman Quine
https://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html
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Couldn't even understand that the term Bachelor
as stipulated to have the semantic meaning of
Bachelor(x) ≡ ~Married(x) ∧ Male(x) ∧ Adult(x) ∧ Human(x)

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You mean that if Quine says something that proves that he does not know
that thing?
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 When Quine says that there is no such thing as expressions
of language that are true entirely on their semantic
meaning expressed in language Quine is stupidly wrong.