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It's still true that free trade and undocumented labor are two ways American labor is undermined. If either of those was reversed, it would lead to ch...

You don't have much room to talk there buddy.

Undocumented labor is one of the ways the government undermines the power of labor in the US. Tariffs plus deportation would lay the groundwork for an...

Just to be pedantic, it's really the act of assertion that magically creates meaning. The painting is only truth apt if someone is asserting it. So it...

Maybe that's how you use the word, but to my ears, if you say nothing was true 60 million years ago, it sounds like an anti-realist stance. If there w...

Ok. So you accept that some state of affairs obtains in the absence of anyone to describe it. I don't really know what the practical implications of y...

The existence of a planet is a state of affairs. So you accept that there are states of affairs that have not been described.

There is some state of affairs even when there is no one to describe it, right?

Do you have to have those descriptions in hand in order for there to be truth? Where no description is available (say about something across the galax...

I understand what you're saying. You're saying truth is a concept that couldn't have been meaningful 50 million years ago because there was no one to ...

They're independent of any particular mind. That's what makes them abstract objects. The same is the case for numbers, sets, propositions, etc. They a...

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Sentences are abstract objects. If you rule out sentences, your truth bearer is sounds and marks. How can a sound have the property of truth?

What I gather is that Michael believes that truth only applies to utterances, whether spoken or written. He does keep talking about sentences, but I t...

It's just that that's a big abstract object. Does it cover all sentences past and future? Like sentences from dead languages like Sumerian?

Does this mean Michael is invoking a set of all possible sentences? Or did I totally misunderstand?

So you don't believe there is an unknown truth regarding Park. This would require accepting the existence of an unavailable truthbearer. I'm a little ...

I'm not sure what that means. Is there an unknown truth regarding Park? Or not?

But we don't even know what the sentence is in this case. Are you saying that an unknown sentence is true? If so, where is this sentence?

How do you know it's possible for anyone to state the reason for Park's disappearance? We may never know.

What do you mean by "possible?" Do you mean in principle, it's possible to answer by stating a true truthbearer?

I see. So when you say the answer exists, you mean it exists in potential?

The answer exists? Where is it?

They're talking about why Yoon Park disappeared. There's some truth regarding this, but we don't know what it is. Where's the truthbearer?

So this is my question: when someone says "The truth of the matter is unknown." What does that mean? Where is the truthbearer?

I agree. Still, it was true. Ask any scientist.

So it is true now, but it wasn't true then? For real?

So you have a special language where it wasn't true that some dinosaurs had feathers? That's weird.

Birds are dinosaurs.

I don't why you're making this so complicated. 10 million years ago, it was true that some dinosaurs had feathers. Easy.

You can say it however you like, but my language community agrees that it's fine to say 10 million years ago it was true that some dinosaurs had feath...

10 million years ago, it was true that some dinosaurs had feathers. I don't see a problem.

Right, so as you're looking for your sunglasses, you are, in a sense, looking for a truth (whatever your truthbearer is). You have expectations, hypot...

That is a great book! Get his books on the history of AP. They're great too. An essential feature of thought is the objective narrative. This is like ...

They're independent of any particular mind, like numbers. Think of it as a pattern if that helps. Yea. If you don't want to deal with any abstract obj...

Sentences are also abstract objects. If you're talking about the sounds and marks we make, the correct word is utterance, not sentence.

It could be that a person uses that sentence as a euphemism. In the movie Young Frankenstein, Gene Wilder's character comments, while exhuming a grave...

Ok.

I asked Nagase once how Davidson's stuff squares with realism vs antirealism, and he said that stuff gets tacked on later by personal biases. :up:

I agree. Whether it's property exchange or information exchange, community confidence is necessary. That confidence is engineered. It's one part techn...

Cool :up:

Are you serious?

Where? I've been looking into this for a while because I've been exposed countless times and never got it. I'd like to know if someone has done some s...

Unfortunately, we don't know how it works. If pre-pandemic, you had an infection with one of the old coronaviruses, what are your chances of having re...

"At least six studies have reported T cell reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 in 20% to 50% of people with no known exposure to the virus." -- BMJ With Ger...

That information comes from climatologists, the same ones who say we're already in AGW.

You can have a Davidsonian theory of meaning where the meaning of a sentence is it's truth conditions. That takes care of use. The truth bearer is sti...

True or false? https://i.imgur.com/LgPlxcr.jpeg

I'll do worse next time.