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Yes, they are.

Arrhg. Two statements are logical equivalent if they have the same truth value. 10(base 2) is not a statement; it has no truth value; and so cannot be...

Shouldn't this read: P2. If we are temporally extended beings, then we must have each of our experiences at each time in which we exist. And if so, yo...

Then why did you represent them as "a and b" rather than the the obvious "a and a"? Are you saying "if you state that a is logically equivalent to b, ...

The notion of essence is philosophically defunct. We simply do not need to be able to present a definition of life in order to do biology. The OP appe...

Why? That's like saying: If you state that '"it is raining" is logically equivalent to "It is Thursday"' then the statements is considered true. SO at...

What does his theory of mind have to do with this topic? That is, are you claiming that one needs a semantic interpretation in order to identify basic...

So are you claiming that 'A implies A' might be false for some model? Surely not.

This bit, next: Davidson takes truth as undefined, and uses it to elucidate meaning. And I rather think that is a good approach. Truth is much easier ...

This bit, then: Hmm. That 'A implies A' is true just on the syntax, surely?

It would be interesting to hear from Mew again. My answer to the OP is that Mew, as a competent speaker of English, already knows what truth is, and t...

Your answer does not appear to me to address the issue I raised.

Tautologies are not true in a way that is different to other sorts of statements. That is, the "It is true that:" in "It is true that:A implies A" and...

I don't see that redundancy undermines science. Indeed, it says nothing about science. 'F=ma' and 'It is true that: F=ma' say exactly the same thing. ...

My apologies for appearing to be ridiculing you. I'm of the opinion that truth is redundant; not an uncommon view. So my reaction to your presentation...

I'm a generous fellow. I hope Ernestm was not claiming that there are tree sorts of truth. Looks like he is. I'm going to go with redundancy.

What's wrong with ostensive definition?

I think that we are at cross purposes. The OP asked for a definition of truth. You provided three ways in which one might justify claiming that a stat...

Ernestm, are you proposing that tautological truth is a different truth to epistemological truth and to causal truth? That does not seem right to me.

What is it you have in mind here? T-sentences? Kripke's recursive definition?

SO suppose we are presented with a definition of truth. There would indeed be a circularity in asking if that theory is true. But it is not a vicious ...

It's not the sort of thing that can be said - although it can be shown. is on the right track; although placing the word objectively in the Aristotle ...

Are you sure you are elucidating truth, and not justification? Your three items look like different reasons to believe some statement, rather than dif...

Government is a device for sorting social issues; that is, it is a problem-solving technique. Fascism solves problems in a direct, if unimaginative, f...

I gave you the relevant page from the log. That's the bit were they landed at Botany Bay. Apocryphal, perhaps; it is a common assertion in new-age and...

Here's Bank's Journal. Read it for yourself.

That story is cobblers. Just didn't happen.

Interesting, Glahn; but I'm not sure what the above phrase might mean. An example?

Then there is no sense in which we are inside them...

Others might disagree, since I have ranted on, on this topic, at great length. In "One the very idea of a conceptual scheme" Davidson shows (to my sat...

Shouldn't this be intensional content?

O:) The notion of "conceptual schema" is incoherent. See Davidson.

When a narcissist finds resistance, they look for someone to blame. When that someone is the legal and intelligence fraternity, which both stand on wh...

What am I playing right now? Slow slide on my Washburn.

What could that mean?

Indeed; although your post needs editing. The knight can't "feel" like a bishop, but can prefer bishop behaviour.

Which seems quite unlikely.

Yep. If being a woman is a social condition, then how can a woman be caught in a man's body?

Are you a woman because that is the role you have been coached (or oppressed) into because of your genitals? Then how do we make sense of the notion o...

Un pretty much nailed it. I'd add that there are some interesting philosophical issues around the way we understand trans people. So, for one, to say ...

And...? You've still not shown a contradiction; only that the number of facts is not countable.

This thread has been interesting, in showing that the cause of bullshitting can be a narcissistic personality.

Love the argument, Tom; but I have to say I agree with Pierre-Normand that what you have shown is that the totality of facts is uncountable, not that ...

I said:

Is the metre rule in Paris a metre long? Yes; and, no. Is it a duck or a rabbit? Yes; and, no. Does it? One instance is insufficient to establish the ...

Fixed.

Seeing without being shown. But it always worries me when I agree with you. :-|

What is the negation of "less than 2"?

So what. 2 is not included in what is less than two. It is included in what is not less than 2.

This bit? That's just the ambiguity in English of "fact". Witti is very clear in setting out facts as distinct from statements of fact. Marchesk is ju...