As it stands, I have no clear idea of what the point you were attempting to make was. My apologies for attempting to take you seriously. I will try no...
An yet {a} is still a member of {a,c}, even if there is no one in the world to say it. Hence what we say is not all there is to truth and falsity. The...
Cheers, . Thanks for chiming in. I don't see that @"Michael" has addressed what I had to say about the difference between the quantificational and sub...
Well, yeah. Even Leon has to be able to say there is no gold at a world with no language, while presumably maintaining that there is gold, somehow, in...
There is at that world no sentence "there is gold in those hills" that is either true or false; and yet there is still gold in those hills. Hence it i...
As if things only exist once named. Yep. The gold and the hills and such. That was the bit from my last few posts about the difference between a quant...
:wink: Where did the cocaine come in to the conversation? I thought they were talking about prostitution... But when a few drugs were decriminalised i...
Becasue that's what we do with sentences such as those... This by way of reiterating 's comments. "Truth is a property of truth-bearers" hides what is...
Well, its a complex, multifaceted issue. A close approximation might be that being true is something we do with utterances, rather than saying that so...
Indeed. It's not at all clear what a sentence is - what counts as a sentence for the purposes of this discussion? All this ambiguity... Davidson reduc...
Well, yes. But is the set of all possible sentences different to the set of all sentences? And of course the issues around sets of sets are problemati...
:wink: Another contributor compared @"Michael" to a small dog who refuses to let go of a big bone. One admires his tenacity, but wonders as to the poi...
I don't think it is as clear as you suppose. Does that painting of the reconstruction Jesus's face exist? No, it's not a painting, it's digital. We do...
So the argument treats accuracy as all-or-nothing. One could not have an otherwise accurate painting in which the hair was pink when it ought be black...
Why IFF? Why not "The painting is accurate if the woman has red hair"? But this is a small thing. I think that you are right to say to that 'it’s not ...
I'll add this. Suppose you are right and truth disappears along with all life. Then, falsehood disappears along with truth. If you can't claim that th...
Cheers. Notice the bit where we can chose between realism and antirealsim? That's my suggestion for the answer to the OP. That the choice between real...
The trouble is the baggage that goes along with "corresponds". I'll agree with you, provided that "corresponds" doesn't add any more than the truth-fu...
You misinterpret what is being said, still. It is true that there is gold in Boorara. If all life disappeared from the universe, but everything else i...
I do. There are a few things that are not physical, but are constructed by our talk. Money is a good example, especially now that it is found in accou...
Sure, all that. "...is true" is predicated to sentences, in a context that gives that sentece an interpretation. But the interpretation is not part of...
The what did you mean with the following? We use "true" as a predicate for sentences, propositions, and so on. The interpretation is not a part of the...
The picture theory of meaning? Do you really want to invoke that? The left side of a T-sentence is about the sentence. The right side is about how thi...
Well what am I supposed to do with a post like that? There's nothing here to disagree with, nothing to take umbrage at, not even a pernickety point to...
The wouldn't you need an interpretation of the interpretation? isn't saying things that are true is just something we (sometimes) do? Like using a pap...
Who, me? I didn't offer an answer, either. Folk thinks such questions are profound metaphysics, when they are just differences in ways of talking abou...
Outside of both classical and nonclassical logic. Illogical, then. Fine. Seems to me that you are not saying much at all. Nihilsum doesn't do anything...
Ok. You previously implied that he answered the question of the facticity of future events, by offering the video as a reply to Janus' "Does it have a...
Seeing as he doesn't provide an answer, that's pretty sad. But also probably accurate. Missing out on what? He doesn't say much at all, ending up waff...
I'll not watch the video. I did look at the transcript. I do not think the author provides an answer to his own question. You seem to think he does. W...
I'm stealing that phrase. There are already well-developed systems of nonclassical logic that have at least a third value, so nothing new in that. Abo...
No, no. No strange loop. That's something quite different. You want the brain to generate reality, which presupposes that before there was reality the...
I thought we reached at least a detente. Ok. If "Our immensely sophisticated hominid forebrain generates the world in which there is space, time, and ...
Trivial, yes, but perhaps not as trivial as is commonly supposed. It has the singular advantage of being correct, which is more than can be said for o...
Not sure what you want here. I suspect the conclusion in your argument is trivial, rather than significant. it's true that there are sentences. "There...
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