Re: Claude.ai provides reasoning why I may have defeated the conventional HP proof

On 2025-07-10 19:58, Richard Damon wrote:

On 7/10/25 10:09 AM, olcott wrote:

According to the POE:
(a) The Moon is made of green cheese and
(b) the Moon does not exist
proves that
(c) Donald Trump is the Christ.

 Rigth, but only because a side affect of (a) is that the moon must exist.

Really, the problem here is that Olcott fails to distinguish between the truth of a conditional statement and the truth of the consequent of a conditional statement. They are not the same thing.
((X & ~X) implies Y) is necessarily true.
Whether Y is true is a completely independent question.
But Olcott seems to think that the truth of ((X & ~X) -> Y) somehow proves that Y is true. That's simply not how logic works.
I raise this point purely as a clarification. I'm well aware that this will have no impact on Olcott's (mis)understanding of logic.
André
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