It's true in a totally trivial manner. Seems to be expressing an identity, except that the first one is quoted. What that has to do with actual snow b...
X is true iff x is true. Is that all we've been arguing about? Because that tells me nothing that I didn't already know. Of course a statement is true...
Perhaps I'm missing something. My understanding is that deflation is an attempt to avoid problems that crop up with other theories of truth, because t...
What is truth? Can be restated as: Wha is it that makes a statement true, such that the cat is on the mat is not false or meaningless? I'm failing to ...
Alright, but that's false, because snow is not always white, just like the cat is not always on the mat. You need something else to make the two equiv...
Yes, that was dumb. Originally, the premise was that the machines were using human brains for processing, but it got changed to something more easily ...
This is a really good point that I had forgotten about. Same applies to the Matrix scenarios. One has to wonder what a brain operation inside the Matr...
But this isn't strictly true, otherwise the bedrock would fall to the center of the Earth. It's true that most of the time one ignores geology when bu...
This is better. The problem is that Line 3 is what makes line 1 true. Explaining how that is the case is where correspondence and the other theories o...
Right, but this is merely a rule in logic and says nothing about how we apply assertions to the world or other domains. The cat is on the mat isn't me...
Okay, I mean nobody disagrees with saying that true and false are linguistic conventions we agreed to. That's not what's of importance. We could have ...
And that's a totally trivial observation that nobody ever disagreed with. Of course we have a linguistic agreement on how truth and false are to be us...
Really? Despite the T-schema and the disquotation? The cat is on the mat. By itself, this is neither true nor false. Is true adds something to the sen...
It's raining outside is true if and only if it's raining outside. Very well and good. Syntactically, everyone can agree. However, "It's raining outsid...
The cat on the mat is true if and only if the cat is on the mat. So, how in the world does a deflationist defend the second part if there are no propo...
Right, but what does that mean? And of course, on a common sense reading, it's just looking and seeing that the cat is on the mat. But that's just the...
Okay right, my fault. What I meant was something that continues to be alive, to experience the state of nirvana, not simply ceasing to exist. Because ...
Wanted to add an additional comment on this. There is a sense in which both Christianity and Buddhism are tying to find an out for this life. They're ...
Yes, but the interesting thing about truth, and the reason it became a question, was in what makes a statement true or false. Sure, we can all go look...
Of course, because you don't think there is any resurrection of the dead into a world where we don't have the incessant meaningless drive of the desir...
That means just about all of metaphysics, unless there exist irrefutable metaphysical arguments. Maybe for trivial matters, like the non-existence of ...
I'm guessing the OP means beliefs that can't be doubted, which I'm not aware of any. Just about anything can be doubted. Even Cogito, ergo sum can be ...
Because they might just be in your head, generated by having the beliefs you do in virtue of the religious culture you were raised in. When I came to ...
Alternatively, an AI might not find it's programmed goals to be meaningless regardless, and just keeps chugging along indefinitely. The whole existent...
The solipsist and I can agree that the cat is on the mat. It's true for both of us. But the solipsist means something different than I do, because I t...
Sure. As long as "The cat is on the mat" is understood to mean my perception (or experience) of a cat on a mat, and not of a cat independent of percep...
The BIV can verify their statement that a cat is on the mat, but the statement is false, provided that the BIV thinks the cat is an external object an...
Right because a BIV can verify that a cat is on the mat, while wrongly believing this means there is an external world cat on a mat. And that's essent...
But I don't believe that there is life on Mars or that Julius Caesar had that number of hairs on his head. I don't disbelieve it either, because I jus...
Right, there isn't, as long as one isn't doing philosophy and is only speaking in ordinary terms. But at least as far back as the ancient philosophy, ...
I see what you're saying, but let's take this statement: Julius Caesar had 46,873 hairs on his head when he breathed his last breath. Now I don't beli...
Right, the is true part is asserting an accurate linkage between world, belief, meaning and language. The snow is white is true if, and only if, the s...
I think so as well. Saying the cat is on the mat involves meaning about cats and mats and what it is for that statement to be true or false, and why w...
But that's a trivial observation at best. What's interesting is what makes a statement true or false. We already knew that "The cat is on the mat" was...
Right, but what does that have to do with the truth of the statement? Because part of our various language games is that various statements can be tru...
Good points, so even if ordinary language clams are empirically based, there's still a discrepancy between truth and verification. Because we acknowle...
I guess that depends on whether "the cat is on the mat" entails a realist or empiricist version of justification. Let's say I'm a BIV seeing a cat on ...
Because it entails the correspondence theory of truth, which is a metaphysical understanding of truth that deflationism is trying to avoid. Why is tha...
I don't understand #2. What makes the laws of nature "intentional"? Can you explain intentionality? I understand it as a mental attitude where proposi...
That scientific statements don't have truth as a property inside the language game of science, but ordinary language claims do. The cat on the mat is ...
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