Isbn: 9798191329390 - paradox-free logic: disproving gödel's incompleteness and turing's halting problem: resolving self referential paradoxes and restoring completeness using paradox-free logic (3 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Disproving Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems, Turing's Halting Problem, and the Case for Paradox-Free LogicFor nearly a century, the foundational limits of mathematics, logic, and computation have been defined by 20th-century impossibility results-most notably Kurt Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems and Alan Turing's Halting Problem. These theorems were widely interpreted as discovering inherent boundaries in formal provability and algorithmic analysis.This book argues those limits were never real. Goedel's and Turing's results are artifacts of an incomplete, two-valued (True/False) logic with no way to reject an ungrounded, self-referential statement - so it's forced to "evaluate" one, producing an oscillation or self contradiction mistaken for a fundamental logical boundary.Core claim: when formal systems are grounded in a proper ontological foundation and evaluated using an introduced third truth-value - Ungrounded - all self-referential paradoxes dissolve by design, restoring consistency and completeness.The wall was never thereGoedel proved any powerful system must contain unprovable truths. Turing proved no algorithm can always decide whether a program halts. Both proofs construct a sentence or program that talks about its own truth or behavior, then treat the breakdown as profound. Feeding a system a malformed input and watching it fail isn't incompleteness - it's a category error dressed up as a theorem.What the book doesStarting from first principles - including why "absolute nothingness" is self-contradictory, and why something must necessarily exist - the book builds a grounded ontology where every true statement traces back through a causal chain to something real. From this it constructs a three-valued logic (True / False / Ungrounded) that lets a system flag a self-referential paradox as ill-formed, instead of evaluating it into contradiction.The book shows the Liar Paradox, Goedel's unprovable sentence, and Turing's halting argument are the same construction in three disguises. With a taxonomy separating benign self-reference from self-assertive from self-contradictory, the paradoxes stop looking profound and start looking like malformed inputs a grounded system can reject. What remains: for every well-formed, grounded proposition or program, formal systems can be both consistent and complete.Why it mattersThis removes the grounds for treating incompleteness and undecidability as inevitable - reaching beyond math into computer science and philosophy-of-mind debates that lean on Goedel's theorem.What's insideA first-principles argument for why something must necessarily exist, grounding a "causal graph" theory of truthA three-valued logic built to defuse self-referenceA formal taxonomy of self-reference - benign, self-assertive, self-contradictoryA proof that Goedel's sentence G and Turing's program G(G) are isomorphic to the Liar ParadoxA reconstruction of formal systems where grounded statements keep full consistency and completenessEngagement with Kripke, Tarski, Priest, Smullyan, Lawvere, Rice - against a century of prior attempts to tame these paradoxesWho it's forReaders with a taste for foundational math, logic, and philosophy of computation - mathematicians or programmers who've found the standard Goedel/Turing story too pat, philosophy readers drawn to truth and grounding, or anyone who enjoys a "permanent" impossibility result taken apart with a scalpel. No logic degree required.If you've ever been told that some truths are simply beyond proof - this book asks you to check the fine print. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…