{"ok":true,"protocol":"maclain_hunter_q_number_item_v1","qid":"Q1103","item":{"qid":"Q1103","slug":"hunter-logical-bootstrapping","path":"/q/Q1103","subdomain":"q1103.4p-engine.com","schemaType":"CreativeWork","recordOrigin":"authored_source","authoredSource":{"author":"Maclain Hunter","text":"Logical Bootstrapping by Maclain Hunter:\n\nThe Bootstrap Paradox Restated:\n\nA time traveler goes back in time and gives Shakespeare a copy of Hamlet. Shakespeare then publishes it, and centuries later, the time traveler reads the same Hamlet, copies it, and takes it back in time. The question arises: Who originally wrote Hamlet? The play exists, but it has no true origin—it is a self-sustaining loop.\n\nPremises: \n\nP: Bootstrapping and self-postulation is not a contradiction or paradox but a fundamental logical and computational process. Logic is a self-sustaining loop, and “pulls itself up by its own bootstraps” (generating itself). It would be a contradiction and would mean Logic has to have an Origin outside of and not fully coherent with Logic to assume the opposite.\n\nQ: Logic is a self-sustaining and necessarily true loop (or “tautological”). This provides the Basis for all other instances of logical reasoning and logical existence. Such a tautological Foundation for a concept is not a lack of a True Origin (Logos - Reason - Cause), but rather an ultimately sound one.\n\nR: The famous example of someone giving Shakespeare his own plays by traveling in time, then asking who made the plays, Shakespeare or the time traveler, presents a classic false dilemma as it does not come with well supported reasoning why we should not and cannot say “both” or that both are manifestations of the infinite Universal Logos (the True Origin of the Cosmos and Finitude) - constituting what we call “logoi” (particularly in Stoic philosophy and similar schools of thought and in the Greek language).\n\nS: A narrative is a logical system/framework and rational structure, by definition, intrinsically, and cannot have an illogical True Origin (outside of the Universal Logic or Logos), even if there are logically flawed intermediate systems/entities that the narrative unfolds through. \n\nT: Assume the negation of the premises {P, Q, R, S, T}. This leads to untenable contradiction, the need to accept a false dilemma, and paradox - famously in the form of the Bootstrap Paradox itself. This would entail that Logic itself has no True Origin just because it has to have bootstrapped itself to make the Universe and doesn’t find its Origin in any local or finite concept alone. Acknowledging the premises as true resolves the paradox and respects the Coherence of Logic, and Logic’s position as its own Origin (and the only thing that can do that job)\n\nU: The Bootstrapping Paradox solution (found in coherent Logic and this self-referential proof and proof for contradiction).\n\nLogical Reasoning (Proof):\n\n{P, P -> Q, Q -> R, R -> S, S -> T, T -> U} |= (((P & Q) & (R & S)) & T) & U\n\nConclusion: {P, Q, R, S, T, U}: \n\nLogic bootstraps Logic in a tautological and self-evident fashion, like Logic proves this proof to be true (as a piece of Logic) when coherent and because of its coherence and deliberate and consistent validity. 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Shakespeare then publishes it, and centuries later, the time traveler reads the same Hamlet, copies it, and takes it back in time. The question arises: Who originally wrote Hamlet? The play exists, but it has no true origin—it is a self-sustaining loop.\n\nPremises: \n\nP: Bootstrapping and self-postulation is not a contradiction or paradox but a fundamental logical and computational process. Logic is a self-sustaining loop, and “pulls itself up by its own bootstraps” (generating itself). It would be a contradiction and would mean Logic has to have an Origin outside of and not fully coherent with Logic to assume the opposite.\n\nQ: Logic is a self-sustaining and necessarily true loop (or “tautological”). This provides the Basis for all other instances of logical reasoning and logical existence. Such a tautological Foundation for a concept is not a lack of a True Origin (Logos - Reason - Cause), but rather an ultimately sound one.\n\nR: The famous example of someone giving Shakespeare his own plays by traveling in time, then asking who made the plays, Shakespeare or the time traveler, presents a classic false dilemma as it does not come with well supported reasoning why we should not and cannot say “both” or that both are manifestations of the infinite Universal Logos (the True Origin of the Cosmos and Finitude) - constituting what we call “logoi” (particularly in Stoic philosophy and similar schools of thought and in the Greek language).\n\nS: A narrative is a logical system/framework and rational structure, by definition, intrinsically, and cannot have an illogical True Origin (outside of the Universal Logic or Logos), even if there are logically flawed intermediate systems/entities that the narrative unfolds through. \n\nT: Assume the negation of the premises {P, Q, R, S, T}. This leads to untenable contradiction, the need to accept a false dilemma, and paradox - famously in the form of the Bootstrap Paradox itself. This would entail that Logic itself has no True Origin just because it has to have bootstrapped itself to make the Universe and doesn’t find its Origin in any local or finite concept alone. Acknowledging the premises as true resolves the paradox and respects the Coherence of Logic, and Logic’s position as its own Origin (and the only thing that can do that job)\n\nU: The Bootstrapping Paradox solution (found in coherent Logic and this self-referential proof and proof for contradiction).\n\nLogical Reasoning (Proof):\n\n{P, P -> Q, Q -> R, R -> S, S -> T, T -> U} |= (((P & Q) & (R & S)) & T) & U\n\nConclusion: {P, Q, R, S, T, U}: \n\nLogic bootstraps Logic in a tautological and self-evident fashion, like Logic proves this proof to be true (as a piece of Logic) when coherent and because of its coherence and deliberate and consistent validity. The Bootstrap Paradox is a false dilemma and is hereby resolved by and through Coherent Logic. \n\nThere is no such thing as a “valid logical paradox” in the sense of a coherent and non-contradictory yet irreconcilable conundrum. 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