You're putting the cart before the horse. Tarski is saying that if "snow is white" is the translation of "schnee ist weiss" then "schnee ist weiss" is...
I really don't understand what you're asking. In simple terms his argument is just that "Schnee ist weiß" is true if and only if snow is white, where ...
In the sense that words have to mean something for his theory to have any relevance, sure. But Tarski doesn't need to give a comprehensive account of ...
Why? I don't need to be certain that something is true to assert that it is true. I will have Weetabix for breakfast tomorrow. I'm not certain that I ...
Maybe not in classical logic, but perhaps classical logic doesn't really fit with ordinary language, hence the development of free logic which makes f...
From my understanding @"hypericin" isn't asking if the rock existed yesterday. He's asking which theory of time is correct: growing block, presentism,...
So my mind isn't real? My thoughts and feelings aren't real? Also a toy gun isn't a real gun, but (for the sake of argument) toy guns are mind-indepen...
Remember when Trump tweeted "I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRI...
It's also true. If it were false then it's negation would be true, irrespective of our certainty and judgements and justifications. Which would be a c...
Your argument seems to be that if we cannot be certain that it is raining then it is not actually raining and that if we cannot be certain that it isn...
Nothing from that quote supports your claim, whereas the quote saying "declassification, even by the President, must follow established procedures" su...
As the ruling says, he must still follow a procedure. An employer has the right to fire someone at will, but simply thinking "John is fired" isn't act...
"Do not try and read the classified documents—that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth." "What truth?" "There are no classified docum...
Trump claims he can declassify top secret documents just ‘by thinking about it’ Hmm, so where else did Donnie send classified documents? We already kn...
The independent property is having three edges and vertices. Properties are something that objects have. Objects don't just exist as some property-les...
No. A number is a value. It is the "propositional content" of one or more mathematical symbols. For example, 0.25, 1\over4, and 2\over8 are different ...
This part in the court's ruling is very important: Trump's (and his supporters') "defence" that he declassified them is irrelevant. None of the statut...
In the sense that the numeral refers to a number and that number is the number of coins prior to being counted. It's not magic. We agree to use the wo...
The question was "can this same something be said of the rock of yesterday or tomorrow?". Some X ("it exists") is true of the rock today. He's asking ...
On the one hand this is just an issue of grammar. Things in the past existed, things in the present exist, and things in the future will exist. On the...
What do you mean by a number being assigned? If you're saying that nobody has said that there are 66 coins in the jar then my responses are that a) so...
But as I said, the findings of science are that the position of an electron isn't like the number of coins in the jar. The former is in a superpositio...
So are you saying that the number of coins in the jar is in some sort of superposition of all possible numbers until someone counts them? Forget the w...
There is some number n where n >= 0 such that “there are n coins in the jar” is true even if nobody has counted them. Your account of truth depends on...
We're not talking about quantum states though. It's not the case that the number of coins in the jar is in a superposition of all possible numbers unt...
I can say "there are 66 coins in the jar" and that claim can be true even if I haven't counted the coins in the jar and even if nobody knows how many ...
A proposition being true and a proposition being determined to be true are two different things. There is a correct answer to "how many coins are in t...
As I said to another poster a few days ago, all this says is that we determine the meaning of a proposition. It doesn't follow from this that we deter...
There is no judgement. It just either is or isn't true. A man who lives alone, perhaps the last living man in the universe, can die even if he believe...
It doesn't even matter. It can be illegal to possess documents even if they're not classified. Tax records are not classified, but that doesn't mean a...
Maybe it's something of an idiom. "It's raining cats and dogs" can be true, but not literally true. So, "I know p" can be true even if it's not litera...
@"Srap Tasmaner" @"Andrew M" @"Metaphysician Undercover" Just to play devil's advocate: The Myth of Factive Verbs. The SEP article on knowledge summar...
What she is saying is that these positions are consistent: 1. 'Warsaw was bombed in World War II' is true iff Warsaw was bombed in World War II 2. 'Wa...
Why would you need a statue of someone to have them as your role model? This is just about not wanting to publicly glorify someone who committed an at...
I've already made my views on role models clear. But on this point, that's the question I'm trying to get answered. @"Eros1982" appears to have a prob...
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