| >This is factually false. Probability is embeddable into predicate logic, but predicate logic is not embeddable into (Bayesian) probability. This is actually an open problem (how to define a probability theory that is equivalent to predicate logic). Completely wrong. How can someone say I'm factually false when your own statement is completely and utterly incorrect. I don't think you're really aware of what's going on here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_logic It's not an "open problem" or aka "unsolved problem" in the sense you implied. Far from it. Rather it is just not a popular field of study. >This definitely a very opinionated view on what is logic. There is no reason to embed anything in universe/anything else. If you remove expressability, I’m not sure what properties remain. I don't think you get it. The nature of an axiom IS by definition an opinion. An axiom is an Assumption. Assumptions are just things that are assumed to be true, they are NOT things that are proven to be true. Thus the only thing an assumption can be if it is an unproven statement is that it is an OPINION. When anyone makes a statement about logic such as my statement "Logic is a fundamental axiom of the universe." Or "Logic is NOT a fundamental axiom of the universe" is by DEFINITION a statement of OPINION. When I say it's a fundamental axiom it means that it is something all of humanity consistently assumes to be true. Our culture, our science, our mathematics, our interpretation of reality and the universe as we know it is founded on the assumption that logic is true. It is a general statement about the broad "opinion" of all of humanity. Look at your own statement. You said and I quote: "There is no reason to embed anything in universe/anything else." What does this statement even mean? What is reason? Reason IS Logic. Look it up. You are literally saying there is no logical reason to embed logic into our universe. Yet here you are making a logical statement in a universe where you say we cannot assume logic is true. We assume logic is true. You can't make a single argument otherwise. Literally all arguments you've ever made in your life hinge on logic being true. That is unless all your arguments are illogical. Are you saying your own argument is illogical? There's really nothing left to argue about here. Our entire technical framework of reality is founded on the "Opinion" that logic real. >On this I do agree, I wouldn’t call logic a “science.” If you truly understood what's going on, you would agree with me on all points. Not just this. |
Also, axiom can be just a rule in a rewriting system. Doesn’t have to be an assumption/opinion as it is just a proposition (or higher order predicate) that is true within some system (not necessarily related to anything that exists).
Things can be outside universe yet discussed by people in-universe (subsisting vs existing without multiple worlds).
What I am saying isn’t controversial in analytic philosophy/ epistemology…
Edit: on a more reconciliatory note, a classic essay that I enjoy that touches upon the idea of denotion/subsistence/existence/difficulty with predicates is Bernard Russel’s “On Denoting”. I suspect you may enjoy it: https://www.uvm.edu/~lderosse/courses/lang/Russell(1905).pdf