1) The traditional mathematicians in this thread failed to find the mistake that I put in
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8413600&postcount=1591 and in
http://www.scribd.com/doc/98276640/Umes in the second paragraph of page 18, exactly because they do not use verbal_symbolic
AND visual_spatial reasoning (and because I am not one of their accepted guys, and in this case they simply ignore what I express) .
Here is the right one (the mistake is using the term
above instead of
below, in order to define a member by Knot set theory):
According to Knot set theory (
http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/KnotLogic.pdf ) being a member is defined as a knot below knot, whether the knot is the same knot, or not. Furthermore, being completely below a given knot, is resulted by null set. Since observation is a significant factor of Knot set theory, it must be stressed that knot being below knot is done by using observation from higher (or wider) dimensional space. In that case the higher dimensional space is equivalent to a given set (notated by the outer "{" "}") where the knots below are equivalent to members, which are always below a given set (YESthing) and above NOthing (please see page 3). In this case reflexivity is actually satisfied in terms of self-awareness only if there is a difference between sets and members of sets.
2) As can be seen in page 7 of
http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/KnotLogic.pdf, Prof. Kauffman actually defines and uses infinite self-reference recursion:
Let FIST (First Infinite Sets) denote the class (not necessarily finite) disjoint collections of rectangles in the plane such that each collection S has a single outermost rectangle, and the collection of rectangles inside that outmost rectangle is a disjoint union of elements of FIST (These are the members of S).
Let's expose the hypocrisy of the traditional mathematicians in this thread, about infinite self-recursion:
In
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8258994&postcount=1550 I use self-recursion, which avoids Russell's paradox, because a set and a member of a given set are not at the same level.
The traditional mathematicians completely ignore this solution, by taking what I wrote and force it under Naive set theory, as seen in post #1554.
In other words, the traditional mathematicians are closed under their own traditional view (and their closed list of their accepted guys) of the considered subject, when they write:
"Yes, and this is way the naive set theory is, well, naive. It isn't suitable for any formal result that admits this sort of self-reference.
Why do you insist on deriving Doronetics from something known not to work?"
They also completely ignore post #1555, exactly because this post is not closed under their traditional-only reasoning, and because it was not written by one of their accepted guys.
Now, what the traditional mathematicians write about Prof. Kauffman's FIST?
Answer: Nothing.
Furthermore, here is their reply about Prof. Kauffman's work as done in
http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/KnotLogic.pdf :
"Actually, in context, Kauffman was being creative relating knot interrelationships to a self-containing set concept. Knots can be linked to themselves (A={A})"
So now infinite self-referential recursion is creative just because it is done by Prof. Kauffman, which is considered by the traditional mathematicians as one of their guys.
Moreover, Prof. Kauffman uses already agreed notations like "{" "}" in a non-standard way, but since he is one of the accepted guys he is creative.
If one of the non-accepted guys will do such a thing, he will be marked by traditional mathematicians as a crank.
If a non-accepted guy makes a mistake or does not properly defines his notions, then this is the "end of the story" for him from now on.
If an accepted guy makes a mistake or does not properly defines his notions, then "He may have gotten carried away once where he overworked the meaning assigned to a variable, X, but it was just a minor bump ..."
Say no more.