Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Second-Order Logic: The Controversy - LessWrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 January 2013 07:51PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 January 2013 01:55:56PM 4 points [-]

Set theory doesn't have a dynamical interpretation because it's not causal, but finite causal systems have first-order descriptions and infinite causal systems have second-order descriptions. Not everything logical is causal; everything causal is logical.