Perplexed comments on What a reduction of "could" could look like - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Perplexed 06 September 2010 02:45:08AM 1 point [-]

By a "logical theory" do you mean what logicians usually mean by a "theory"? A deductively closed set of sentences?

Wow! Well, that eliminates a lot of the arbitrary character I was objecting to in using programs to represent the world/decision problem. But there still are a lot of deductive systems to choose among. I await your next post with interest.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 06 September 2010 02:59:51AM 0 points [-]

I won't settle the choice, only point out the generality of notion and how it applies, direction to look for further refinements.