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I did explain why it's a failed theory. "His theory is true" Failure.

Dude. Are you being sincere? A moral nihilist has no problem identifying things as good or bad. A truth nihilist has no problem with "true" and "false...

So you agree that redundancy is truth nihilism. Cool. I can say with confidence that we mean the same thing by "redundancy." Your position is not triv...

So I was going to provide a summary of Soame's thoughts on redundancy theory, but I'm finding that Michael has already done a great job. It's truth ni...

A single border collie can herd a full grown bull.

Sometimes "true" is redundant, specifically when the concept has been evoked by the act of assertion. I don't know what a redundant concept is.

I think we pretty much agree about truth. It's a primal concept. Comprehension of it may be innate. There's just confusion about what redundancy is. I...

Your take on redundancy puts no limits at all on what one can say. Its thesis is no more informative than that the word true starts with a t.

I get my info from Scott Soames and his best book isn't on Kindle. I can summarize it. Tune in tomorrow.

That it's a nihilistic approach.

If you say so. Alfred Tarski understood redundancy in the way I just described.

There are people who take it further. By redundancy, they mean to say that true only has a social function. As I said, leave that thesis out and you h...

I used the earth's electromagnetic dynamo as a test of Robert Rosen's notions about life (because there's some positive feedback to it.) I eventually ...

Julian Assange looks like a jerk. He just has an "I'm a shithead" look on his face. Could he be a hero in spite of that? https://upload.wikimedia.org/...

A clock is a continuous sequence of events (I didn't mean physics events, just regular ones). If you put a clock in a void, you will have injected tim...

Cool. So there could be no passage of time in a void. Picking a point in time is actually picking an event. The assignment of a temporal point says so...

Did we agree or disagree that Leibniz's argument for relative space works for relative time?

"Let others bend the breathing bronze to forms more fair..."

By your lights Redundancy is trivially true.

Correspondence doesn't give a flip about agreement. Redundancy says truth is about agreement...social signs.

Per Scott Soames, you're wrong, quote already provided. Perhaps two different perspectives both called Redundancy? Eh..maybe. I doubt it.

Yes. You're right. That was my shorthand for: redundancy says true signifies agreement. Do you disagree with that?

P is that it is raining. "It is raining" indicates speaker believes P "It is true that it is raining" says no more than "P" "It is true that P" indica...

If you say it's raining, one supposes your utterance signifies that you agree to P where P is that it is raining. What else could your utterance show?

So when you, as a redundacist, say p is true, you're just signaling that you agree with p. That hardly captures the meaning of true

Social signification of agreement to p?

Now that's redundant. Again: if you aren't a truth nihilist, you don't believe truth is agreement. Redundancy says it is.

Oh. What does it say about those unknown things and happenings?

Maybe we're talking about two different things... although I'm not sure how. How does your version handle unknown truths?

The non-truth-nihilist says that the truth of P has nothing to do with whether anybody agrees with P. The truth nihilist says the truth of P is nothin...

Ernest, you're tending to address a wide variety of issues (justification, knowledge, the limits of knowledge, etc.) as if it's all truth. Those thing...

The crack ho look isn't your cup of tea?

Ok. Adios, dude.

We're going around in circles now.

Yes. Think about moral nihilsm. No change in language use is required.

Yes, but they're always wearing distressed moto-cross jeans and green tiger-print t-shirts. Oh wait.. that's me.

Neither of those describes truth nihilism. Look at the section I quoted from Soames' book above. That's one form of truth nihilism. It's called Redund...

Do you understand what truth nihilism is?

"The word true in these sentences may have the practical function of signaling to one's audience that one is agreeing with something that has already ...

Nope. Redundancy is truth skepticism.

Sure, but is it always redundant? I don't think so, as we can easily imagine that there are unknown truths. Deflation, but not truth skepticism (which...

I don't know why it happens but it's violent and crazy. I work in a hospitals so I see the results of it from time to time.

Cool! Thanks guys!

Hi dude! Best wishes!

True. Humans don't do a lot of adaption, but bacteria do. They're adapting to our medicine.

So you're saying that medicine is part of the environment humans are adapted to?

US or global revenue? I mean...does Best buy have a store in Rome? It's extremely important that we get this settled. Freakin Best buy.

Yes. The point is that Merck is one of the top 100 companies in the world. Best buy is not.

In the world or in the US?

No.