puzzeling with Smullyan's "forever Undecided"
- From: translogi <wilemien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 18 May 2007 12:06:44 -0700
I am trying to find the solution to the exercise on page 111 of
"Forever undecided" by Raymond Smullyan
the question is to prove
(B(p < --> ~Bp} & B(-B_|_)) -> B_|_
for a type 4 reasoner
For people who don't have the book (i like it very much) a type 4
reasoner has the following axioms
Outside the normal rules of natural deductione
1a (Ax)[x -> Bx]
All tautologies are Believed (but what B means is immaterial)
or maybe this should be formalized as
(Ax)[((x ->x) -> x) -> Bx]
1b (Ax)(Ay) [(Bx & B(x->y)) -> By]
Modus ponens in B
2 (Ax)(Ay) [B{(Bx & B{x->y)} -> By}]
Belief in 1b
3 (Ax) [Bx -> BBx]
4 (Ax) [B{Bx -> BBx}]
At least this is how I formalise the conditions of type 4 reasoners.
(see page 90 for Smullyan's defining conditions)
(This is also open to discussion)
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