Re: Readings in (some of the) foundations of mathematics --- tree of knowledge

On 07/03/2026 01:36 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> On 07/03/2026 11:17 AM, olcott wrote:
>> On 7/3/2026 12:34 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>> On 07/03/2026 08:23 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>> On 7/3/2026 3:41 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>> On 02/07/2026 17:45, olcott wrote:
>>>>>> On 7/2/2026 1:44 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>>> That depends on the semantic system. Often the meaning of the word
>>>>>>> "cat" indeed involves that what is called a "cat" is also called
>>>>>>> an "animal" but there are other posiibilities. Conseqently, the
>>>>>>> sentence "cats are animals" can be a semantic tautology that tells
>>>>>>> nothing about the real world,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It tells us exactly one thing about the real world 1 != 0
>>>>>
>>>>> A tautology tells nothing about the real world. Sometimes one can
>>>>> have a false impression that something is said about the real world
>>>>> when a tautology is presented. But that impression is a consequence
>>>>> of insufficient or invalid consideration of logic and semantics.
>>>>>
>>>> Stipulative definition of relations between finite
>>>> strings is the only way that these finite strings
>>>> acquire semantic meaning.
>>>>
>>>> Try to find some other way that "cats" <are> "animals"
>>>> can acquire semantic meaning besides Davidson Semantics.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yet:  man is an animal, yet, man is not an animal.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> By different definitions of animal that would have
>> different GUIDs in my system. Most literally man
>> is an animal and "man is not an animal" is objectively
>> incorrect. That man has a different set of abilities
>> than most animals is also being updated. Chimps have
>> been proven capable of abstract thought.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> computer science 101
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
> Most thinking beings are feeling beings
> and most feeling beings are thinking beings.
>
> Not all, though, ....
>

It's usually given that thinkers can think feels
moreso than feelers can feel thinks - yet, according
to accounts of sense, that all thinkers have to feel.

"I am not a number", while, "I is a number".


Is "Three Dog Night" a "three-legged dog"?
Is "One" the largest cardinal, or the loneliest number?


I is a post-modern deconstructionist post-modern deconstructionist.

Eco has a good book called "A Theory of Semiotics".


"Science" is usually what a full account of logicist positivism is called.