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- From: fsp@thp.uni-koeln.de (Falko Spiller)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Re: Doctrines of Maybe: 7 truth values
- Date: 11 Jan 93 19:04:51
- Organization: Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, F. R.
- Germany
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- In-reply-to: peterb@cs.rug.nl's message of Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:08:03 GMT
-
- an example:
- in math we use really 4 truth values:
- 1.true (a proof is given)
- 2.false (a disproof is given)
- 3.independent (a proof of independence is given, eg.Cantor hypothesis)
- (ie. true xor false, ad libitum , if you want to say so)
- 4.unknown (else, eg. Riemann hypothesis)
-
- and this will ever be the case if we have a incomplete logic without
- entscheidungsverfahren. these four truth values are not new but always
- used in mathematics.
-
- a good 1993. falko spiller
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- Falko Spiller fsp@thp.uni-koeln.de
- Uni-Koeln,Inst.f.Theo.Physik
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