News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Turing and Wittgenstein on Logic and Mathematics [pdf] by ukj on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @12:12PM (#23918541)
If you trawl Girard’s papers you will find him saying at least these two things:

Logic is subjective.

Logic is implicit - will never be explicit.

“The symbol speaks for itself” is the notion of denotational semantics mathematicians use. I am in the camp of “symbols mean whatever you interpret them to mean”.

There are no comments on this comment yet.