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From: Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com>
To: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" <edubuc@dm.uba.ar>
Cc: Categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: __?__
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:44:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1RbXsu-0002bK-Vq@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1RbCiv-00066h-Mj@mlist.mta.ca>

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Eduardo J. Dubuc <edubuc@dm.uba.ar> wrote:
> Is the following nonsense ?
>
> http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2141

He thinks that Godel made an error, namely failing to generalize from
two-valued logic to sequence-valued logic.  He then shows that
predicate logic can be encoded as polynomials, which is not new, and
sweeps quantification under the rug since it's too hard.

So while not strictly nonsense, it's not the earth-shattering wonder
the author thinks it is.
-- 
Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike
http://reperiendi.wordpress.com


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-15 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-14 21:35 __?__ Eduardo J. Dubuc
2011-12-15 16:44 ` Mike Stay [this message]
2011-12-15 22:16 ` __?__ Andrej Bauer
2011-12-16  8:56 ` __?__ Vaughan Pratt

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