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Ah, interesting. From the definition of each: ?(x)Fx? Fm v Fn v Fo... and (x)Fx?Fm&Fn&Fo...?
August 31, 2022 at 05:25
Thanks. True, but no one would understand us. Anyone remember programable calculators that used reversible polish notation? I recall using one that wa...
August 31, 2022 at 05:11
Ok, then. Best if you don't pay any attention to my posts.
August 31, 2022 at 03:43
I can't do what? I suggest you and @"Janus" work out what you're doing between you and get back to me.
August 31, 2022 at 03:31
What makes 'The Good Life' good? Felicity Kendal.
August 31, 2022 at 00:34
So the good life is where you get what you want. Well, there's that sorted, then.
August 31, 2022 at 00:33
One approach that might be helpful here is to point out that deflation need not commit to correspondence being wrong. So such sentences as "that the k...
August 30, 2022 at 23:58
Yes, more or less, with a few notes. What designation does is to take each of the things named in the object language and give them another name in th...
August 30, 2022 at 22:42
@"Moliere", @"Luke" I certainly don't advocate any form of idealism, and don't wish to be misunderstood as advocating that there are only propositions...
August 30, 2022 at 22:20
No. Rather that on Davidson's account, p gives the meaning of S.
August 30, 2022 at 12:16
I don't know why you are making these claims. They don't seem related to anything. You said I think a distinction needs to be made between these two c...
August 30, 2022 at 11:57
That's not a T-sentence, of course. So what are you doing here?
August 30, 2022 at 11:44
Aporia. A wonderful thing.
August 30, 2022 at 10:30
Cool. I was addressing Which was your original point...
August 30, 2022 at 10:21
Yes, and read a few chapters on pred logic and free logic. :brow: The white sauce nearly caught in the pan - I shouldn't read while cooking. I tried t...
August 30, 2022 at 09:50
Well, a difference as to the facts is exactly a difference as to which statements are true. And it's held by someone other than Fred. That's it.
August 30, 2022 at 09:41
Just that. The argument is ill-formed. What can we do? Well, we might take "t" as a first-order predicate over a domain of propositions; I gather you ...
August 30, 2022 at 09:35
Not so much bicycle wheels. Statements, beliefs, sentences, utterances, yes. And yes, there is not much more to its analysis than is given in a T-sent...
August 30, 2022 at 07:58
Did I? Seems a step too far. I think I maintained that truth ranges over propositions, in order to contrast it with belief, which seems to involve bot...
August 30, 2022 at 06:59
Only that those who might suppose there to be no difference between truth and belief do not seem to have the benefits of a target for their arrows. I ...
August 30, 2022 at 03:33
Indeed, if belief and truth were not different, then all we would need for knowledge would be justified belief. @"Sam26"?
August 30, 2022 at 03:30
Hmm. In order to miss the target, there must be a target to miss. In order to lie, or to be mistaken, there must be a truth. Nor do I, apart from that...
August 30, 2022 at 03:13
If Fred's belief is false, and Fred's belief is that the tree is an English Oak, then "The tree is an English Oak" is false. To be false is to be not ...
August 30, 2022 at 02:55
Puzzling. What's unclear about that?
August 30, 2022 at 02:41
Again, this is ill-formed, mixing predicate and propositional terms with abandon. But if we try to get to the sprite of the argument, you might validl...
August 30, 2022 at 02:37
Good idea. A bit of depth. We can perhaps see the difference most clearly if we look to the use of each rather than meaning. Let's look at an example ...
August 30, 2022 at 01:57
Nor am I. To be sure, to believe that p is to believe that p is true. They are not unrelated, but they are different, and have differing uses in both ...
August 30, 2022 at 00:29
Yeah, Who was it said that? It might be an interesting discussion. But can you fill it out? Presumably with the proposition in the place of the arrow,...
August 29, 2022 at 23:55
, The point, so far as there was one, to this discussion is to find a grammar for our notion of truth that holds together in a more or less consistent...
August 29, 2022 at 22:30
This has been said more than once. It's not right. The definition of snow is frozen atmospheric water vapour. Colour is irrelevant.
August 29, 2022 at 21:22
A series of politicians operating in bad faith have undermined trust in democratic practices. Hence threads such as this. Politics ought be about the ...
August 29, 2022 at 21:00
\begin{array} {|r|r|}\hline \& & true & meh & false \\ \hline true & true & meh & false \\ \hline meh & meh & meh & meh \\ \hline false & false & meh ...
August 29, 2022 at 20:35
That it all looks a bit like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QereR0CViMY
August 29, 2022 at 08:30
I might also be neither right nor not...
August 29, 2022 at 08:26
You were all over the place, and I pushed you too hard. Not very helpful either way.
August 29, 2022 at 08:15
Nice. Lets' take a look at this. We can rewrite this as: 1. p&p. (A) ______ 2. p (&I) or on a single line as p&p ? p Where again ? is "therefore", we ...
August 29, 2022 at 07:52
You are not doing argument. Cheers. Bye.
August 29, 2022 at 07:12
What? R: it's raining. ~R: It's not raining XOR: exclusive OR R XOR ~R: It's either raining, or not, but not both T: true A bunch of T's down a column...
August 29, 2022 at 06:36
Interesting. So we again need a trivalent logic, with (p v ~p) being neither true nor false, but this time in order to defend the correspondence theor...
August 29, 2022 at 06:31
Yeah, it is: +---+----+----------+ | R | ~R | R XOR ~R | +---+----+----------+ | T | F | T | +---+----+----------+ | F | T | T | +---+----+----------+
August 29, 2022 at 06:25
It's just as true for XOR.
August 29, 2022 at 05:51
Don't fall to the idealist error of thinking truth is dependent on you. Down that path lies solipsism. It could still rain without you noticing. Perha...
August 29, 2022 at 05:49
Nuh. It can rain without you noticing.
August 29, 2022 at 05:46
So you would have "it's raining or it's not raining" parsed as (r ?~r). That still get you a tautology, +---+----+----------+ | R | ~R | R XOR ~R | +-...
August 29, 2022 at 05:45
I don't think so. Truth gets on quite satisfactorily in extensional circumstances.
August 29, 2022 at 05:37
It can't be luck if whatever sentence we stick in (pv~p) gets us truth. It's structure, not correspondence.
August 29, 2022 at 05:35