Re: Paper+Exercises+Naming Issue-faith

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:03:53 +0100

Le 09-janv.-06, à 18:30, Benjamin Udell a écrit :

> By "ampliative induction" I mean, not mathematical induction.

Nice! I hope you will be patient enough to see that this is a good
description of G* \ G.
G characterises the self-referential discourse of the lobian machine,
which is fundamentally a machine capable of using mathematical
induction(+).
G* \ G will correspond to anything true that the machine can guess
without using mathematical induction.

Bruno

(+) IF a property is such that 1) it is true for 0, and 2) if true for
n it is true for n+1; THEN it will be true for all numbers.
More compactly: {P(0) & [for all n: P(n) -> P(n+1)]} -> for all n
P(n).


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