nhamann comments on Book Club Update and Chapter 1 - Less Wrong

15 Post author: Morendil 15 June 2010 12:30AM

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Comment author: nhamann 18 June 2010 05:10:13AM *  1 point [-]

Apologies, I totally edited out that part of my comment after finding a much simpler proof. I think my new derivation is fine assuming that proof by truth table is valid (which should be uncontroversial given that he uses it soon after this to show that AND and NOT are an "adequate set" for representing every logic function).

Edit: I was not thinking clearly above. Of course proof by truth table is valid, because truth tables are the basis of the notion of logical equality, and Jayne's axioms don't make sense unless you accept that notion as a given.

Comment author: red75 18 June 2010 06:04:17AM *  0 points [-]

Actually, you were thinking clearly. We can interpret 1.12 as axioms of proposition calculus, in a strange form of course. As I've done partly because of not very rigorous narration.