Mongrel

So you're echoing what TGW said.. that it's an if/then situation.

But rule following has to be anchored somewhere. Quine showed (in Truth by Convention) that in regard to application of logic, the anchor can't be any...

So let's say I have a model M of the actual world from start to finish. Any proposition that is true of M entails ALL other propositions that are true...

Well true propositions represent aspects of the actual world.. What do false propositions represent? Some of them could be said to represent other pos...

I think they're already dead.

Would it be possible to model the actual world?

I'll have to ponder this. Just as an aside.. you're sounding a little like Yoda.

When it comes to applying logic, there is certainty by virtue of the knowledge of necessity or uncertainty by virtue of ignorance. The world is physic...

Sure. You can be deflationist.

Well look at the pacifist now.. all hawk when it comes to the poor orcs who can't help being evil... like Germans.

Uncertainty on the part of whom?

The given always appears against a background of other possible worlds?

"Proposition" sounds math-like and logical to me. And it's probably as close to philosophy of math as I ever really need to get. But you're right.. me...

I'm disturbed by the fact that the enemy is hell-spawn, so our heroes can get their slaughter on without worrying about killing somebody's father or b...

Again, you're sort of acting like propositions are objects of superstition... as if they're fairies magically making meaning where there was none. The...

One doesn't even know what proposition is being expressed unless the context of utterance is known. John said "2 is a prime number." Bill said, pointi...

Agustino, he's your boy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsO6ZnUZI0g

Two different propositions were expressed. An utterance is sounds or marks, generally... not really a good candidate for truth-bearer. Propositions do...

After 9-11 I did a lot of speculation about why somebody would run an airplane into a skyscraper. My thought was that the notion of being all caught u...

No I suppose not. The showing there would be a matter of reviewing the history of Islam, talking about it's present manifestations in the world which ...

I'm having trouble following this... sorry. Consider agreement. Two people are willing to assert the same truth-bearer. It can't be that they're willi...

[ I think that's a mischaracterization. Separation of church and state is a strategy for creating social stability. It was hard for some Christians to...

What do you mean by "attached" there?

You mean use meaning as truth-bearers? How would that differ from using propositions? And it's cool if you want to continue the conversation here. I r...

In Frege's argument an infinite regress appears with any attempt to define truth. It's not just Correspondence. It's any definition. I wrote out Frege...

You have a Trump-complex. I'm just sayin'

M: My dog exists. D: Dogs have two ears. P: My dog has two ears. My dog is a truthmaker for P. The representation M entails P. Right?

I'm not following you. Propositions that haven't been judged are neither true nor false?

I didn't read BC as saying Trump is mentally ill. My diagnosis is that you defend him because you want to be him. His father taught him that there are...

My favorite Kierkegaard translator uses "virtue" that way. "There was one who was great by virtue of his power." and so on. "By virtue of" is apt to m...

The SEP article explores the pros and cons of a number of truthmaker candidates. Entailment is one that gets shot down. I was trying to understand wha...

So entailment: "My dog just got her rabies vaccination." Let's call that utterance p. My dog is a truth-maker for p IFF my dog exists, and if I say "M...

Deflationists don't expect an answer to that question to be forthcoming, but they aren't truth anti-realists. Truth is a concept that's too basic to d...

I don't care. I need to be a genius so people won't make fun of me.

And steroids.

Sincerity would be another way to put it. You're either sincere or you aren't. There was never any need to tangle ourselves up regarding the real exte...

it could be. Where I come from it's part of commonplace greetings...usually between people meeting for the first time. Genuine means real...as opposed...

Deflation isn't so bad. You know what truth means in the sense that you know how to use the word. There probably isn't any definition that would be us...

A ritual is just a form...marriage, funerals..yes, westerners have rituals. The book I read about Confucius said his world was pervasively ritualized....

Sure I wasn't contradicting anybody. Just offering a perspective that's cool to me. It involved Confucius. What dickhead would disagree with him? ;)

Correspondence doesn't have value as definition of truth. It obviously has some value though. More later...

Consider a handshake. What's going on when there's genuineness there? Confucius says breathe life into rituals. Contemporary westerners don't have as ...

Interestingly, the SEP article on truthmakers starts with an image of clapping hands to convey how truthmakers and truth-bearers relate... each one is...

The SEP mentions several candidates for how we might understand truthmaker. This one is cool: The challenge to entailment is confusing and involves ne...

You're sounding like Austin, but he didn't use "proposition." I don't hold that there's one way the words should be used. But no worthwhile discussion...

Yes. Looking at the question with Redundancy goggles on, the question: "By virtue of what is P true?" doesn't make a lot of sense. Redundancy says tha...

I'm used to Scott Soames' terminology. Propositions are expressed by uttered sentences. "Proposition" and "statement" mean the same thing.

So Correspondence says that truth is independent of knowledge, right? So how is the ontology of unstated statements handled? Or is it?

Dude. That's why it's called the t-sentence rule.

I think the SEP description covers the appropriate bases. The t-sentence doesn't have anything to do with propositions...