Re: Olcott is cured of CrackPottery! (Halting Problem)

From: Peter Olcott (olcott_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 09/05/04 

Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 04:58:13 GMT

"Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> wrote in message news:a10e308a5f7483f4041fdeba43a03608.48257@mygate.mailgate.org...
> "Peter Olcott" <olcott@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> > In retrospect it was apparently me that was wrong all along.
> > Alan Turing was right, and from this I will venture to make
> > an educated guess that Kurt Gödel was also right.
>
> And Bertrand Russell, and ...
>
> > I doubt if I will ever venture to these two places again, but,
> > if I do it will be with much greater humility.
>
> I give it three months and you'll be enmired in the exact same
> mess somewhere else.
>
> xanthian.
>
>
>
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I still think that the Liar Paradox is really nothing more than
an incorrectly formed statement. The reason that I decided to
pursue the Halting problem was that was the most difficult
enigma that I was sure to be able to understand fully, without
a lot of additional required learning. I was right that is was
not difficult to learn. Apparently I was wrong in my intuition
that it was solvable.

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