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Suppose you have a list of colors {red, blue, green, ...}, and a function that maps an object to a color. For any color, you could define a predicate ...

It was Piero Sraffa, and it's almost certainly true. He was a very original thinker. (I read his book a lifetime ago.) They were friends at Cambridge.

Did you mean to quote stuff about Hitler instead of the kettle? This is more or less the standard view right? But I have to say, "We find that ..." su...

I was thinking back ages ago, Barwise and Perry, situation semantics. Indeed, the point should have been made already that the only reason to go quest...

So you're using "proposition" to mean something like, fully saturated -- I'm thinking of the way Frege calls predicates "incomplete symbols" or someth...

Sure, by way of distinguishing it from ours. "If Hitler had not committed suicide, ..." says right up front that in fact he did. You can't be a counte...

If that's what we've done, then I was way off. Wouldn't be the first time. But my thought was exactly that they go together. The sort of thing you can...

Yeah, I'm afraid so. I am thinking it all comes back to being, but I'm in no hurry to get there. I would quibble a little with the word "evidence," wh...

In addition to my reply to Tate above, counterfactuals also imply, right up front, something that is the case, and try to show how that matters, in th...

Maybe, but even if you're not stating a fact ("The volcano is erupting") you're saying something about how our world works, aren't you? That our world...

Here are some thoughts on truth I can't figure out how to use. (Possibly in the next neighborhood over from yours @"fdrake".) In thinking about how tr...

From one time? No. (It takes kids more than a couple weeks to make it from kindergarten to 6th grade.) I briefly taught math in a homeschool co-op, to...

At around the same age you learn your ABC's. That's pure sequence, no quantity. The, you know, point of math is that things like sequence and quantity...

Or we could do each other's views, but randomly selected, like a secret Santa. ;-) Anyhow, I can try to summarize where I am at the moment, still in p...

Sorry, this was goofy: It is sometimes desirable to effect such a transformation into a form with only ORs and NOTs (disjunctive normal form) or only ...

No progress there, so let's revisit "ranging", then I'll give up: So your position is that "true" is a word that can be applied to various things -- s...

So you agree that truth is a relation between a proposition and something else. There might be more that goes into that, but it's at least that. Here'...

And I must be shooting at it. I do other things as well. But yes, it stands to reason there's a target. Problem? And the arrows that are stuck in the ...

By the way, if I was quoting someone, I didn't know it. I can tell you what I was thinking; it's not complicated. In order to tell you some part of ho...

Is hitting the target a property of the arrow?

I guess I should reread the paper. I'm tempted to say pragmatics is already all over this sort of thing. If I say, "Hand me the blue one," the meaning...

But it was gibberish both times. That's not how that works. You don't need existential generalization to know that q exists; you just predicated somet...

No, I don't think I was saying anything like that, just offering motivation. (Snipping lots of musing about "It's raining or it's not", which was more...

In the back of my mind I'm thinking of the intuitionist's rejection of p v ~p as an unqualified introduction rule. To introduce p v ~p, you have to ha...

All that's fine -- I think, I didn't check all that carefully -- but again look where you end up, contrasting (1) Is P true? (2) Is P possible? Why ar...

Yeah that's it, except partial is full for a disjunction. "Or" means "or", for realsies.

Not so much because that's not an exclusive or. You're talking about something else. Here's something for you. Was thinking about 'modal' adjectives a...

As you like. R v ~R happily corresponds to the fact of it raining, just as R v X, for any X does. Likewise for corresponding to it not raining. On the...

FWIW, I liked what I saw of the prosentential theory, maybe a few years ago on IEP. It has a linguistic feel to it, and provides reasonable motivation...

Not so odd. I miss a lot. Can you fill it in a little for me?

What an odd response. After I give examples with the intent of showing the difference between being interested in someone's words, on the one hand, an...

I get that. True and False are concepts we might naturally think of as applying to linguistic artifacts, so in that sense at least they're "linguistic...

But it does mean people feel the need to address it, with, I assume, something beyond "No, that's a misreading." I tend to think this sort of thing is...

What I’m saying—what is our life? Our life is looking forward, or it’s looking back—that’s it. That’s our life. Where’s the moment?

Here's how I understand the argument. You can conceive of a moment as a boundary between the past relative to that moment, and the future relative to ...

I'm not quite sure what to say to this. (Yes, I believe the original experiment was looking for rudimentary physics-related expectations among infants...

I asked why we should watch, and you answered that I don't have to. That is not logical, Captain. But I'll take your "suggestion" to go away. Best of ...

Let me put it this way. I disagree. I've done my share of teaching some basic logic here, helping folks with homework, answering questions. We should ...

Why not just send everyone to Peter Smith's blog?

Did you mean for this to sound like a threat?

That's an interesting way to put it. I'm not sure how to debate whether concepts are linguistic, but in the meantime I'm just curious why you would ta...

I'll give an example. Infants, I understand, have a sense of object permanence before they have a sense of object identity. If a toy is moved across t...

Some of my intuitions run the other way, but it's a messy area for sure. Research into the cognitive states of pre-linguistic children and animals is ...

I don't even remember that! And I correctly retrodicted its result. And only 41 people voted. I've always assumed we have that Pareto thing here, 80% ...

I don't think that follows, especially since part of the issue is whether some members are less inclined to raise their hands. I absolutely agree ther...

My approach involved threats, so yeah there's enforcement behind it. Roughly, I would threaten to consider (further) disrespectful language a virus; w...

In my brief stint as a mod, I waded into the Ukraine thread a couple times (IIRC) and deleted a few runs of nasty exchanges, I think. But I think I on...

There's yet another issue with taking "is" as something like "is the same as" in the most general sense. "3 + 1" and "4" are obviously different expre...

I honestly should have said "contingent" where I said "arbitrary" -- but I liked how forceful "arbitrary" sounds, and it captured the peculiar way in ...

Yes, absolutely. I had Ryle in mind when I said "know" and "see" are both being used "factively". Point of interest that we might be disinclined to tr...