PeteOlcott wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 5:52 pm
Does Prolog create a formal system entirely comprised of stipulated relations between
finite strings such that the satisfaction of these stipulated relations indicates True and
the satisfaction of the negation of these stipulated relations indicate False?
YES.
No. Prolog does not do any of that. The programmer does that.
The programmer declares the operations that they expect the computer to perform in Prolog.
PeteOlcott wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 5:52 pm
Does this prove that formal systems can be entirely comprised of stipulated relations
between finite strings?
YES.
This is a silly truism. That is the definition of a formal system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_system
You still need to define the relations!
PeteOlcott wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 5:52 pm
Can a True(x) ever diverge from Provable(x) in any formal systems that are entirely
comprised of stipulated relations between finite strings and True(x) is defined as the
satisfaction of these stipulated relations?
NO.
I guess then, what you are telling me is that Prolog is unable to parse the following sentence in its current, English form.
Conceptual truth is ONLY mutually interlocking semantic tautologies that can ALWAYS
be represented as the satisfaction of stipulated relations between finite strings.
Because that is not a "relation of strings".
That IS a string. One string.
You still need to demonstrate you you turn ONE string into MULTIPLE strings.
Let me help you...
Code: Select all
["Conceptual", "truth", "is", "ONLY", "mutually", "interlocking", "semantic", "tautologies", "that", "can", "ALWAYS", "be", "represented", "as", "the", "satisfaction", "of", "stipulated", "relations", "between", "finite", "strings."]
Now for the interesting part. How do you derive the relationship between these strings?
In short: You are going to have to translate your English into Prolog...