On 2019-04-01, Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, > > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: >> semantics collapses to syntax. As in mathematics. > > This view is outdated since nearly 90 years. The attempt to create a > language where semantical correctness results from syntactical correctness > was killed by Goedel's incompleteness theorem. > > The insight was not new then. Paul the Apostle wrote about Epimenides: > "One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretians are > alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies."
The old, recursive, self-referential dragons eating their own tails (here in the form of oft-told tales), as it were. > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas > > -- “Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched--love for instance-- we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.” - Virginia Woolf, The Waves