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Cont: Deeper than primes - Continuation 2

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Wrong.

({Z} IsSuccessorOf Z) OR ({Z} ~IsSuccessorOf Z) is a wff that defines {Z} such that it is not necessarily a successor of Z.

No, it doesn't. It says, very simply, that {Z} may or may not be the successor of Z.

It does not tell us how we know whether or not {Z} is a successor of Z. That is what we are trying to pry out of you.
 
It does not tell us how we know whether or not {Z} is a successor of Z. That is what we are trying to pry out of you.
By the result of the relation between {Z} and Z.

(If {Z} IsSuccessorOf Z, then Z is incomplete) OR (If {Z} ~IsSuccessorOf Z, then Z is complete)

Again, straightforward examples are given in:

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11271494&postcount=1388

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11274453&postcount=1427

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Once again, by the standard definition of successor, Successor(Z) = Z u {Z}

By my non-standard definition of successor, Successor(Z) is {Z} only if {Z} is used as a successor of Z (which means that also {Z}~$Z holds).

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As long as you try to understand the relations between {Z} and Z by the standard definition, you have lost it.
 
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By the result of the relation between {Z} and Z.

What relation?

(If {Z} IsSuccessorOf Z, then Z is incomplete) OR (If {Z} ~IsSuccessorOf Z, then Z is complete)

That does not explain the definition of "IsSuccessorOf".


Neither do those.

Once again, by the standard definition of successor, Successor(Z) = Z u {Z}

Or that.

By my non-standard definition of successor, Successor(Z) is {Z} only if {Z} is used as a successor of Z (which means that also {Z}~$Z holds).

Or that.

As long as you try to understand the relations between {Z} and Z by the standard definition, you have lost it.

You have yet to show that there was anything to find.
 
What relation?
First of all ({Z} IsSuccessorOf Z) OR ({Z} ~IsSuccessorOf Z) is syntactically valid by http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11269502&postcount=1344.

Based on this validity, semantics (i.e. what the strings mean (some model)) is given by:

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11274453&postcount=1427

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11271494&postcount=1388

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"(If {Z} IsSuccessorOf Z, then Z is incomplete) OR (If {Z} ~IsSuccessorOf Z, then Z is complete)" uses also semantics.

Please look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formation_rule.
 
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First of all ({Z} IsSuccessorOf Z) OR ({Z} ~IsSuccessorOf Z) is syntactically valid by http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11269502&postcount=1344.

I didn't say it wasn't. It just isn't what anyone is looking for.

That would be, in case you have missed the past three years of discussion, a definition of "successor".


No, it isn't.

What is the definition of "successor", doron?
 
For anyone who has forgotten some earlier great moments in Doronetics, we have also been told that 2 may or may not be a member of the set containing 2 as its only member.

0.25 and 1/4 are different numbers.

A set is the union of its members.

And so on, but never, ever has Doronshadmi successfully defined any of his invented terms.
 
jsfisher claims that ({Z} IsSuccessorOf Z) OR ({Z} ~IsSuccessorOf Z) is a tautology (always true) and therefore useless.

It may looks useless syntactically, but if semantics is also used, one enables to demonstrate models that can be used in order develop an interesting mathematical framework, that dose no follow after the, so called, standard mathematical framework.
 
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For anyone who has forgotten some earlier great moments in Doronetics, we have also been told that 2 may or may not be a member of the set containing 2 as its only member.
2 is not the same as {2}.

0.25 and 1/4 are different numbers.
If also structural properties are considered.

A set is the union of its members.
A set includes the members (if exist) of unioned sets, where one of the cases is X u X.

And so on, but never, ever has Doronshadmi successfully defined any of his invented terms.
It is true that you successfully follow aftero what I just wrote above.
 
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That would be because you have not defined "successor".
It is defined.

You simply don't wish to combine the syntactic and semantic accepts of the considered subject, in order to realize that it is defined, but that is your choice, and it is perfectly ok with me.
 
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