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 15:53:47 GMT

"David C. Ullrich" <ullrich@math.okstate.edu> wrote in message news:5krlj09119biigdk47b2uj4obf6an20kj4@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 18:50:13 GMT, "Peter Olcott"
> <olcott@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> >In retrospect it was apparently me that was wrong all along.
> >Alan Turing was right,
>
> true. duh.
>
> >and from this I will venture to make
> >an educated guess that Kurt Gödel was also right.
> >
> >I doubt if I will ever venture to these two places again, but,
> >if I do it will be with much greater humility.
>
> uh, saying you -guess- godel was right is already lacking
> that humility you say you're going to strive for. calling
> that guess 'educated' under the circumstances is positively
> arrogant.

Not at all. Since I now understand the halting problem
sufficiently to conclude that it is impossible to solve, and
my intuition told me that both of these were possible to
solve, therefore this intuition can not be relied upon.

> and the title of the thread is wrong, btw - you are continuing
> to spew nonsense about perfectly valid refutations that
> appeared before the one you accepted.
>
>
> ************************
>
> David C. Ullrich
>
> sorry about the inelegant formatting - typing
> one-handed for a few weeks...

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