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So for names the denotation or extension is the individual designated but the name; for predicates the denotation or extension is a list of specific i...

Again, I have no particular direction in mind, just attempting to sort out a few of the issues around the wider use of Tarski's schema. Simply because...

More than slight. The issue is more to do with developments from Tarski's definition. I'm not disagreeing with you but thinking out loud. What caught ...

But there is a further issue. We agree and have the same extension. Is it true that they have the same denotation? And further, is it really the case ...

So we have and I'm not seeing a great difference.

Then what is the extension of a word?

The Revision theory has an interesting take on this, giving an analysis of circular definitions that shows their pathology, where it is present. The c...

Hmm. Why denotation and not extension? The denotation attempts to set out the necessary and sufficient characteristics of snow and white. The extensio...

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Quite explicitly, Davidson points out that there are (at least) an infinite number of sentences in English., but only a finite set of words. We learn ...

Supposing the search is for an account of what makes any sentence true, holism in some form enters into the discussion from the beginning. Holism in s...

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President?

Hmm. 1.01

Anyone wishing to pursue the topic further might look at Carnap.

Yeah,"quibbles" was a bit too pejorative.

So, , is helpful? It seems to be a reply to your

Seems is correct that we cannot have a less formal discussion of propositional calculus. It's either too rich for some or too poor for others. I think...

The absurdity is palpable. Fealty to a lord who cannot command. A worthless promise to do as he asks provided he cannot ask.

I did. That's, indeed, rather the point. We don't do that because it undermines the enterprise at hand. I have several. Your quibbles are doubtless co...

But perhaps not all that clearly. If one sets (? &~?) as true, then since (? &~?)?? where ? is any wff, every wff would be true. yep. Fixed. Rejecting...

Indeed, it is apparent in the final two rows of the truth table: \begin{array} {|r|r|}\hline ? & ? & ? ? ? \\ \hline T & T & T \\ \hline T & F & F \\ ...

For any wff, or for that matter any sentence in a natural language, ? and ? (? & ~? ) ?? :brow: Not sure what "logically dependent" is doing here. If ...

Yeah, Ok, I give up.

So if the same thing decides that two sentences are true, then they are the same sentence - they mean the same thing.

Ok, try this: the thing that decides that a given sentence is true varies from one sentence to another. Does that sound right to you?

...and...? "The kettle is boiling iff the kettle appears to be boiling" "The kettle is boiling iff the kettle is at 100?" "The kettle is boiling iff t...

If you need a metaphysics before you can decide if the kettle is boiling, you're doing it wrong. But it says what can be said. Try each of these with ...

It makes clear that the meaning of the sentences that are true or false is up to us.

So the truth of different sentences is determined by different things. Is there some pattern we might use to find what it is that determines the truth...

It still seems to me that you have deflation wrong.

But not in all cases.

What do you think?

Sweet. Admiration for the screw example. It makes it so clear that what counts as a part of the kettle is up to us.

Certain. Any time you ask that question, exactly all the people alive then will be alive.

:up: You are channeling Austin, The Meaning Of A Word...

Charles III proclaimed King of Australia And so it goes.

Well, from where I sit fact-value reduces to direction of fit. Doubtless that's an oversimplification. I've little problem with values being true or f...

No, the most important thing on the table remains how meaning and truth fit together.

(Do we want to do this? Just don't reply if it is too far off topic). So let's use the SEP article. Read ?x as "the thing that is x..." Michael seems ...

What's that got to do with the slingshot? You like the substitution issues of T-sentences. Apply that here.

Lovely.

Trouble is you would also have to agree that "snow is white" is true because the kettle is boiling.

Belief just is actual contextual application. Language is an actual contextual application.

Seems about right. Thank you. I'd quibble as to the word "cause" here. But I might go so far as to say that the exact circumstance in which it is corr...

I disagree. Try instead thinking in terms of which acts are parts of a language game and which, if any, are not. The act of naming is clearly a langua...

You folk have been having fun haven't you? Nice try, but there is a whole lot more going on here than just reference. Truth is about meaning, and mean...

Then how would you respond to ??