Banno

Hmm. Wittgenstein, whom we both admire, took logic as having a crystal clarity, a precision of expression that was not found in ordinary language. Ind...

Sure. I threw your name in as bait. I wouldn't mind following through on our discussions of the relation between intentional language and neuroscience...

Yep. That in another possible world snow is green, but 7+5 is 12 in all possible worlds. That's necessity and contingency, of course, not analyticity,...

Nuh. Starts out wrong with non-linguistic states of affairs and goes down hill from there.

Me, too.

Perhaps an understanding of the right hand side is not something to be set out in a bunch of rules, bit demonstrated by pouring the water into the tea...

:grin: But you don't need an extensive theory to understand that the kettle is boiling. Making tea is a way of life.

Only if the most you get from an English translation of War and Peace is a lists of sentences equivalent to ????? ? ???.

And the Lagomorpha Oryctolagus cuniculus is a Anatidae.

As I'v said a few times, it's not not correspondence... The bolded bit doesn't correspond to a fact, it is a fact.

Intersting. Do you know if it was Zostavax or Shingrix? One dose or two?

While I commend your involvement with these ideas, I just find this incomprehensible. "Snow is white" is not analytic. T-sentences are as appropriate ...

The process of radical interpretation that you describe here forms part of what I called the "mechanics" of Davidson's program. The question "what mor...

Don't let my psychiatrist in on this conspiracy; if she finds out that my paranoia is warranted, she might stop giving me the drugs. What's amusing is...

That's a neat potted summation of that part of Davidson's early work. Well done and thank you. It's gratifying to be talking to someone with a bit of ...

Sounds right. As mentioned, the substantive theories of truth try to tell us which sentences are true, and not what truth is.

So let me ask you again, are t-sentences correct? Even if they are irrelevant, is it false that ('p' is true IFF p)? I'm asking because there is a sub...

Odd, since it's clear he explicitly deals with the liar by introducing levels of language. It's certainly not a premise in his argument, obviously.

At first I was thinking "Ooo you global Jetsetter, you!". And then I thinked "it's only like buying a mango in cairns and eating it in Melbourne...

Too many replies, and I'm off to the hardware store. Good to see a consensus developing, even if it is "Banno is wrong..." Now, if you folk could just...

And as in everything, we follow blindly. Get a shingles vaccination. It gets nasty as you age. Shingrix, which has the singular advantage of working.

So for you, t-sentences are not false, but irrelevant?

To be clear, you are saying that ('p' is true IFF p), where p sets out the meaning of "p", is false? Why?

On the very idea of a conceptual scheme, again. And that discussion earlier int his thread I had with @"bongo fury" about the difference between a quo...

That's for public dentistry. The free stuff. About 1 in 9 cases. Pretty bad, but not applicable to those with money or private insurance. I'm all in f...

Yep. And yet, they are correct. I mean, you would not disagree that ('p' is true IFF p), would you? So their use might be in providing some sort of gr...

Good. I was worried about you. The world is what is the case*. It's being perceived or conceived is irrelevant. It seems yours is the only openly anti...

Of course. Simply that you define false, not true. We are left to infer the truth. On this we agree, so far as substantive definitions. The idea that ...

Trouble with Headgear is that other folk have said much the same thing, yet expressed themselves with far greater clarity. Davidson in particular, in ...

Thanks, but they are a bit too distant for my purposes. We could follow up on this, dentists per capita... https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/d...

Very little of that chimes with what I understand of deflation. The connection between meaning and use is not central to deflation. But it is central ...

Hey? What argument?

Hmmm. I'm suspicious of dentists who are not booked to the hilt.

Presumably scientific processes provide us with a justification for believing this or that. It's a commonplace that science avoids labelling its theor...

My take on interpretation is pretty much along the lines of Davidson's radical interpretation, which was modified by the man himself over time. It's t...

So far this year I've had two crowns, a bridge and am waiting for a couple of root canals. Instead of a new chicken coup and greenhouse I get to chew....

So my intent is to comment on each of the replies to @"Sam26"'s request. draws attention to the distinction between Truth and truth. Well worth keepin...

The analytic.synthetic distinction makes not difference to the T-sentence; in works for both. And it's a distinction that Quine shoed the weakness of....

This: If we have a one-to-one translation we have a definition of truth.

Pots and kettles!

Indeed. That's not what was claimed.

Sure, counting is embedded in the things around us. It has that in common with all language games. Any view that suggests otherwise would be bonkers.

A few minutes in a classroom will quickly show that there is no one right way to teach counting. Its a far more complex task than it appears to a comp...

Silence.

Very noncommittal. Mind if I invite @"Janus", @"creativesoul", @"Michael", @"Luke", @"Pie", @"Agent Smith", and @"Isaac"? Folks,

A fair point. I doubt that I will be able to adopt it, force of habit and all.

Fair. But who else are you waiting for replies from?

Excellent proposal. Truth is different to belief, justification, agreement, and so on, in being unary. Statements of truth have only one place, taken ...

(Was an attempt to put all 16 truth functions of two variables into a table. Too ugly.)

To read this, an input on the left gives the output on the right, so 1 gives 1 and 0 gives 1, hence always true... ...always false... ...always the sa...