But notice that wasn't what you were asked. It's true that "The Earth exists in this situation" is true and the Earth exists in this situation: but th...
A biconditional can't be fallacious. But that is what the biconditional requires. Your 'iff' formula does not offer a material equivalence, but must b...
Let's try this again. You are asserting the following biconditional: (For any p, in all situations), p iff "p" is true. Substituting "the Earth exists...
What's not mind-dependent is whether a proposition is true. That's just to say it's not mind-dependent whether something is so or not, unless that thi...
I think we're talking past each other. To say truth is a relation between sentences and contexts is no more to go against Frege or any notion of the '...
Just to drive this home, let p = "the Earth existed" and move 'is' to the past tense. 1. It was true that the Earth existed. 2. The Earth existed. The...
No, it's a mapping from world-states to truth values. A world-state isn't the sort of thing that's true or false. A proposition is something that has ...
Nope. Consider the following situation: it's 4 million years ago, so there aren't any sentences. Yet at that time, the Earth existed, so was true that...
A relation contains tuples of objects or maps tuples of objects to truth values. So 'true' could be defined as a relation between sentences and contex...
It doesn't matter. Then you can just define the relation with an argument for context, and have truth of a sentence relative to a context. This isn't ...
It really doesn't matter. If a sentence has a conventional semantic content that can be modeled as a proposition, the sentence can express the proposi...
Whether any particular proposition a sentence might express is true isn't mind-dependent unless that proposition is specifically about or involves min...
Yeah, I have one of their albums. I listen to a lot of heavy rhythmic instrumental rock generally, but the 'djent' wave sort of passed me by, and I th...
I was introduced to it in high school by a neighbor of mine, who was pretty much the gold standard of what you might call a bourgeois southern Califor...
I agree that a lot of people have casually racist attitudes. I think people who are educated in certain ways have racist attitudes that are more than ...
Not really. I just think that there are tendencies on the left that favor perpetual hysteria, and perpetual hysteria isn't sustainable in trying to ma...
Just as a matter of personal phenomenology, the insult 'racist' has become so oversaturated that my first response is always not to take it seriously,...
It's worth recalling the lack of arguments against the existence of a soul. The Cartesian notion of a mental substance is not at this point explanator...
Uh, yeah, that's kind of how it works. Although I don't think you will find any, since all evidence points to the movie being bad. Influence them? Wha...
No, but I don't see what that has to do with what we're discussing. You implied that because good, interesting, etc. have connotations, that they ther...
Not true. I did specify them for specific case upon request. Why are you lying? But connotations are not what is at issue. When applied to people, 'he...
Before I go there, are you just going to keep asking 'why' questions to every answer I provide? If so, this will not get what you want, to differentia...
The stunted delivery of his lines, the lethargic and unnatural speech, the impression that he's going to keel over at any minute while trying to imper...
Sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbxmsDFVnE As you can see, Harrison Ford can't act. Movies with actors that can't act are bad. So the movie is ...
But you can show objective evidence that something is interesting, or good. A movie is something you can watch that has qualities, and based on these ...
So is a sentence like 'the rock is heavy' also an expression of personal taste? Are there any sentences that do not express matters of personal taste?...
If they are being honest, yes – but then, in virtue of uttering the first sentence, they also feel the rock is heavy (or else they would be dishonest ...
Why? You haven't made the case that it is about what they feel to begin with. Your hypothesis is not the null hypothesis: you yet have to prove your i...
So why is 'The movie was excellent' about personal tastes, rather than about the movie? The sentence is clearly about the movie. There seems to be no ...
No, if they were telling us how they felt about them, they would say something like, 'I feel that this movie is...' or 'I find this movie...' If you s...
Why go this far to defend Marvel films though? It was just an example, and why are they worth defending anyway? I guess we can just decide not to hold...
I don't really understand what I'm supposed to get out of talking to you, Sapientia. Not to be rude or anything, but I just don't see what purpose thi...
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