In the mind is the sense that "the sunset is red", and in the world is the referent that the sunset is red. Frege argues that a proposition can have a...
Assertion vs. reference As you said, Frege wrote that his most important contribution to philosophy was disassociating the assertoric force from the p...
An Indirect Realist's challenge to Frege's disassociation of sense from reference For Frege, a proposition such as "this grass is green" or "this unic...
I don't have access to Thinking and Being, so am using reviews of the book. Khimi does seem to say that the expression "is true" in a proposition such...
:100: I think that "This statements grammar false is" can be compared to Chomsky's "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously". "Colourless green ideas s...
When I see a red box falling on my foot causing me to feel pain, it would be as sensible to say that I see the colour red because the box is red as it...
Yes. If the apple is not on the Moon, then it could be in Australia, it could be on Mars or it could be in New York, where "could" is a modal verb sho...
There are positive facts, such as this apple is in front of me, and there are negative facts, such as this apple is not on the Moon. Bertrand Russell ...
Following on from @"Leontiskos", it seems that truth and existence are meta-predicates rather than predicates. Not "the apple is on the table is true"...
Yes, there are many logical systems other than Frege's First-Order Logic, such as noted in the Wikipedia article on Non-classical logic. Some, I am su...
I agree that when we give the name "Y" to X, we can then say "Y is X" For example, when we give the name "Noorbicks" to the puppy born in Smalltown, K...
Another day has arrived. True, prepositions such as "on" are not logical connectives, but rather syncategorematic. From the Wikipedia article on Synca...
I have no problem with "this sentence has five words" being named "The Pentastring". In other words, "The Pentastring is this sentence has five words"...
Suppose there are two people in a room, A and B. A has prior knowledge about apples on tables. B doesn't have prior knowledge, but wants to know about...
Wittgenstein argues in the TLP that propositions cannot represent logical form, that logical form cannot be expressed in language. Logical form can on...
Depends what he means by "manifest". From Merriam Webster, a synonym of "manifest" is "show". As Wittgenstein said in the Tractatus, one can show logi...
As you wrote: Yes, the expression "p is true" says no more than "p". I agree that "says no more" is a figure of speech, but is intended to have the sa...
As I see it, truth is about the relation between different things, and these different things exist. The expression "p is true" says no more than "p" ...
I agree that the following doesn't help in knowing which philosophers addressed the problem, but is just a couple of random thoughts. "A hundred thale...
I am making a case that your previous statement was factually wrong, and am backing my case up with additional evidence from Yannis Stephanou's book A...
Given ""This sentence is false" is false" So which sentence is attributing falsity no longer to itself but merely to something other than itself? This...
Not wanting you to waste your time on my ludicrous arguments, I will just make the following point, which seems central to your argument that a self-r...
In the expression ""this sentence is false" is false", what does Quine mean by "outside sentence". Does he mean "this sentence is false", or does he m...
Quine said: I interpret Quine as saying that in the expression "this sentence is false" is false, the outside sentence is "this sentence is false". It...
The professor looks at a Geography student's essay and says to the student: this sentence is false. The student had written "Paris is in Germany". As ...
Picking up on just one of your 33 comments: Mary in 1975 in New York said "This sentence has five words". Rafael in 1923 in Rio de Janeiro said "This ...
Question: how do you avoid the problem of infinite recursion in a self-referential sentence? "This sentence contains five words". Non self-referential...
From Wikipedia -Meaning (Philosophy) If "this sentence contains five words" is referring to itself, then "this sentence contains five words" means tha...
Makes sense to me. I've never understood any validity in the barber paradox. The expression ‘secondary employment’, also commonly referred to as ‘doub...
Not the case. I did include the non self-referential example: I also included Frege's 1918 comment: ==================================================...
1) "this sentence contains five words" is true IFF this sentence contains five words We don't know what "this sentence" is referring to, but, for exam...
I agree that in the context of a thread on the Liar Paradox, the discussion is about can a self-referential sentence have any meaning. Truth depends o...
I agree. No one would say that "this house contains five rooms" is true without first knowing which house is being referred to. No one would say that ...
Perhaps the following: I know I see the colour red independently of any beliefs, thoughts or attitudes I may have towards sunsets. I cannot have a bel...
I wish it were. "Snow is white" is true IFF snow is white. The sentence "this house is very tall" contains five words. The sentence "this sentence con...
There is also knowing. When looking at a sunset, I know that I see the colour red, I believe my seeing the colour red was caused by the sunset, I thin...
Exactly. The sentence "this sentence contains fifty words" in order to have a truth value must be grounded in the world. "This sentence contains fifty...
I agree with you that if the sentence "this sentence contains fifty words" is grounded in the world then it can have a truth value, and it is false. F...
In the sentence "this ferry contains fifty people", we don't normally think that "this ferry" is referring to the sentence "this ferry contains fifty ...
You say that the sentence "this sentence contains fifty words" is false. But you don't know that. It all depends on which sentence "this sentence" is ...
That's why there is a SEP article on the Liar Paradox. =============================================================================== I agree that my...
The problem is, in 2) for example, what exactly is "this sentence" referring to? If "this sentence" is referring to "this sentence contains fifty word...
As regards the sentence "this sentence has fifty words" making the claim that "this sentence has fifty words" has fifty words: No, it wouldn't be fals...
The above is a key point of disagreement "Snow is white" is true IFF snow is white "Jack is tall" is true IFF Jack is tall "This sentence has five wor...
Problematic. I agree that 1) "snow is white" is true IFF snow is white 2) "New York is in France" is true IFF New York is in France 3) "This sentence ...
Tackling your points one by one. 1) "This sentence has five words" is true IFF "this sentence has five words" has five words. If this were the case, t...
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