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On 5/9/2024 3:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:Ah, good sir, it's certainly to be appreciated risingOn 05/08/2024 02:14 PM, Jim Burns wrote:>>Consider>
| ∀x:B(x) ⇒ B(t)
| ∀x:(B⇒C(x)) ⇒ (B⇒∀x:C(x))
| B(x) ⊢ ∀x:B(x)
| ∃x:B(x) ⇔ ¬∀x:¬B(x)
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Is it possible that
several centuries of polishing and perfecting
have given us, in 2024, something which
François Viète had only set out in search of?
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I am not a giant.
However, I can stand on giants' shoulders.
Since I can, why shouldn't I?
Sort of, I suppose.
| I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ,
| think it possible that
| I cannot read your mind.
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<pseudo.Cromwell>
>Like Russell stood on Frege and Peirce,>
and von Neumann and Zermelo stood on Mirimanoff,
and Cantor stood on duBois-Reymond, well,
Newton of course is very well-known for
his quote "I stood on people left and right".
| If I have seen further
| it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.
|
<Newton>
>Here it's still "Amicus Plato">
| Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas
<Newton>
==
| Plato is my friend -- Aristotle is my friend --
| but my best friend is truth.
|
<Newton>
>Here it's still "Amicus Plato">
and it's very old-fashioned,
yet every few hundred years at least
it comes back around,
unsurprisingly much the same.
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So, ye adherents of Russell's retro-thesis and
semi-Aristotleans of
the "I say" logical positivist variety,
too often thinking that
circa-20'th-century-classical quasi-modal logic
is either classical or full for DeMorgan:
can you get down?
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Not.first.false? Largest.number.ever.
Compare
finite sequences of only not.first.false claims
to
logarithmic slide rules.
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When used correctly,
they both give what they're advertised to give.
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Doubts that they give that,
to the extent that there are doubts that they give that,
originate from it being less.than.immediately.obvious
that they give what they're advertised to give.
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But they do give that,
and it can be shown that they give that,
even if it is challenge and more.than.a.challenge
to _immediately_ show that they give that.
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