Janus

That they may not correspond in the same way is not that they do not both correspond.

I don't think it is incorrect to say that truth is a property of propositions; but I do think it is wrong to say that it is merely that.

I'm not sure what you mean by "corresponds how". Don't you understand how, for example, an account of events can correspond or fail to correspond to w...

What you say is irrelevant. Language is first understood in the sense that it is learned. Children are not great at subtle interpretation: a certain l...

The commandment is a Christian one and should be interpreted as such. Sure, you can interpret it to give it any arbitrary meaning you think is intelli...

On the face of it you seem to be contradicting yourself, as I can discern no difference between the 'conventional" account and what you write here.

No, you're quite mistaken: the correct interpretation is clear in the context of the Christian faith. It's just a matter of educating yourself, and I ...

Language is understood. You need that primary understanding in order to be able to arrive at the point where you become capable of interpretation. The...

How can you understand "Love thy neighbour" without interpreting it? You could (idiotically) interpret it to mean "Fuck (in the sense of have sex with...

The sense of the commandment is to act towards your neighbour in a loving way. It doesn't matter what you feel; the commandment is telling you to act ...

I doubt it, but time will tell.

I think you're vastly overestimating Trump's negative effect. Trump is only a minor part of one of the secondary tumors resulting from the metastisiza...

I think you're dreaming, but I hope you're not. Not that I think a replacement of Trump would make any significant difference to what is transpiring, ...

Your interpretation of Tarski or someone else's? I didn't say Tarksi intended to refer to actuality; it's probably quite the opposite. But the T-sente...

Imagine a world where there are no sentient beings at all. Are there any truths in that world according to you? I'm not saying I think there are, but ...

And yet you say: Which indicates that you are not sure if "concentrating one's being" is a thing. We cannot imagine God being able to create a stone s...

So we have no way of knowing what is a thing and what isn't, since our reason is not determinative of what is a thing and what isn't. In that case how...

So what does "snow is white" refer to, according to your understanding of English and of Tarski? Could Tarski be using the phrase to refer to somethin...

So, now we have an interesting situation. The quote in your OP says that everything is a matter of interpretation. I interpret Tarski to be referring ...

So, you are saying that snow being white is not an actuality?

Well, of course it is a statement, a statement that, unlike the first statement which refers to a statement, refers to an actuality; namely snow being...

According to you an omnipotent being should be able to do anything; even if it were "not a thing" (whatever that means) it should be able to make it a...

It says "Snow is white" is true iff snow is white. Snow being white (if it is white) is an actuality.

You can say that truth is an assertion of actuality, which is what Tarski's formulation amounts to. The way I look at it is that truth just is actuali...

What I am trying to get at is that what is true can be relative or absolute; i.e. relative to some context or true independent of any and all contexts...

So, leaving aside tautologies, you believe the only truths are empirical truths then? What about moral truths, are they a thing for you?

Better dead than grateful; or perhaps better both...:joke:

Well. I know it is so for me, and I have not claimed it is necessarily, but merely possibly, so for others. From what I have read about hunter/ gather...

I don't see why not. I mean what you say may be so for yourself, but are you entitled to extrapolate that it must therefore be so for others? Besides ...

Could "He" concentrate his entire being in, and only in, a cup of coffee, or the end of your penis, for all eternity if "He" wanted to. What would tha...

I don't agree. We can draw a distinction between what is true per se, and what is true relative to some context or other. Examples of the latter would...

What else is human life if not a wandering up one garden path or another?

Are you thinking of truth in the propositional or empirical sense or truth in a "spiritual" sense? (I put the latter in brackets to indicate that I am...

Yes, the absolute is itself a human construct. If we will inevitably choose some absolute, then there would surely be better choices than the transcen...

It is if you find something to align it with. The problem is that it fails to be absolute if it is aligned with anything less than absolute; which wou...

If truth is actuality, is the prey's interpretation any less true than the predators, or vice versa? Is there another absolutely true interpretation, ...

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English version: Janusius= J'ang Fu Tze Hey I like it! Better red than dead!

My apologies. I misspoke: I should have qualified that statement with "moral outrage over trivialities or points of order". Of course being opposed to...

I don't follow this stuff, but I'm giving @"StreetlightX" the benefit of the doubt as being correct about what has been implemented. And then I'm reas...

No, I'm saying it is likely that not all, but some, of this would not have gotten through without the distraction Trump has provided. Obviously I cann...

Not saying none of this would have been implemented without the focus being on Trump, his pussy-grabbing, his constant lies, the Mueller report, the R...

Fairy Nuff

Yeah that would be great wouldn't it.

Ah, so occupational, emotional, ideological and practical. Not aesthetic, though?

I think it''s also the medications keeping people "alive" well past their "use by' dates.

Is it aesthetic or ideological hatred?

Obviously it suits their purposes very nicely. With all the focus on Trump's antics they can get away with murder. That's what's really going on in my...

You're waiting for something you have already decided you will never accept, so it will be a long wait. As you wish, I'll leave you with your delusion...