TobyBartels comments on The Cartoon Guide to Löb's Theorem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TobyBartels 29 September 2011 03:47:08PM 1 point [-]

You can tell that J_Thomas2's "if" (which is the counterfactual "if") is not the "if" of material implication (which is what appears in Loeb's theorem) from the grammar: "if George Washington was my mother" rather than "if George Washington is my mother".