[FOM] Feasible and Utterable Numbers

Charles Silver silver_1 at mindspring.com
Thu Aug 3 09:24:28 EDT 2006


On Aug 2, 2006, at 3:50 AM, V.Sazonov at csc.liv.ac.uk wrote:
>
> It is interesting that medium numbers M are closed under successor  
> and,
> nevertheless, are < 1000 so that there is no formal contradiction (due
> to an appropriate restriction on logic).

	You've probably said this before, but if so I missed it.   What  
exactly is (are) the appropriate
restriction(s) on logic to avoid contradiction?  Could you please  
explain this in terms of a natural deduction system with rules such  
as Modus Ponens, Universal Generalization, and the like?

Charlie Silver


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