Michael

I didn't realise you knew what was taken and what was missing.

No I didn't. I referenced a news article that said that the FBI was searching for classified material about nuclear weapons, a Congressional report th...

I employ facts. But nice of you to admit that I am indeed combatting propaganda.

Now compare Biden's speech with Trump's recent rally:

That much is clear. I don't respond to you to because I think I'll finally get through to you. I know you're a lost cause. I respond to you to for the...

You sure like to engage in your own rhetoric. This is what he said: So, no, he isn't treating his opponents like domestic terrorists. He's saying that...

I'm not sure about that. There is the fact that snow is white and there is the proposition that snow is white. Are these the same thing? I'm inclined ...

Why do you treat these differently? 1. Joe Biden 2. The kettle is boiling (1) is a name and (2) is a sentence. (1) isn't Joe Biden and (2) isn't the f...

1. The kettle is boiling 2. "The kettle is boiling" (1) is a sentence, (2) is a quote.

And similarly: 1. The kettle is boiling (1) is a sentence and that the kettle is boiling is a fact.

What is so hard to understand about this? 1. Joe Biden (1) is a name and Joe Biden is a man. Use-mention. It's really simple.

I don't know if Blackwell got this right. In Truth and Proof (1969) Tarski said this: So he seems quite opposed to the redundancy view.

1. Joe Biden (1) isn't the President. (1) is a name. Joe Biden is the President. Again, this is the use-mention distinction. Remember this? So: 1. The...

The fact that the kettle is boiling.

And yet you are conflating them when you say that (1) is the fact that the kettle is boiling. It isn't. (1) is a sentence.

Because (1) is a sentence and the fact that the kettle is boiling isn't a sentence. Therefore, (1) isn't the fact that the kettle is boiling. You seem...

1. The kettle is boiling (1) is an English sentence. You appear to have accepted this above. But the fact that the kettle is boiling isn't an English ...

(1) says "The kettle is boiling" and (2) says "La bouilloire est en ébullition".

I don't understand the difficulty: 1. The kettle is boiling 2. La bouilloire est en ébullition (1) is an English sentence and (2) is a French sentence...

1. Boiling the kettle is Is (1) a grammatically incorrect fact or a grammatically incorrect sentence?

1. The kettle is boiling 2. "The kettle is boiling" These are two different sentences.

https://youtu.be/KCbTgDC14uY Skip to 1:25.

Is it? 1. The kettle is boiling (1) is a sentence but a boiling kettle isn't a sentence.

For Jan. 6 rioters who believed Trump, storming the Capitol made sense In Harvard study of Jan. 6 rioters, top motivation is clear: Trump Anyone who i...

Trump compliments 'fierce' and 'smart' Putin and applauds Xi Jinping for ruling China with an 'iron fist' He sure loves his dictators. Definitely wish...

Classified folder on display at Trump Tower What's the bet that Trump Tower gets searched next?

Judge unseals the list of items FBI seized from Trump in Mar-a-Lago search Lots of empty folders with classified banners. What's he done with the cont...

Just a side note, but Convention T and the T schema are different things. So Convention T is the claim that an adequate definition of "true" will enta...

In On the Concept of Truth in Formal Languages he says: The object language is a formalized language, specifically the calculus of classes in his exam...

1. "p" is X iff p Does (1) tell us the meaning of "X"? If not then the T-schema doesn't tell us the meaning of "true". It sets out the condition under...

Trump team's filing So they accept that these documents haven't been declassified.

I think this is one of the things that Wittgenstein got right in the Philosophical Investigations. I'm not entirely convinced that meaning is as simpl...

Sure, although I don't understand the relevance of this?

What abstract object? All I see there is a sentence with no explicit referent.

I think you're making things far too complicated. We use speech and writing to talk about/describe the world. If there's nothing mysterious about this...

Is there something mysterious about correspondence? We have a sentence "the cat is on the mat", we have the cat on the mat, and we say that the former...

I'm a bit confused. I just don't quite see the connection between "if Hitler had not committed suicide then he would have been executed by the Allies"...

Prosecuting people for their crimes is tyranny?

What about counterfactuals? Are they false (or not truth-apt)?

Proper names behave differently to common nouns.

As another example, assume that you believe that Trump is the President. If you were to claim that the President lives in Mar-a-Lago then you would be...

Yes.

It refers to a particular thing, but whether or not it means something is a contested subject. See the SEP article on names: --- And in such a scenari...

That's a proper name. "Michael" doesn't really mean anything1. 1 Unless you want to address the Hebrew etymology, in which case it means "who is like ...

By this you mean that the subjects have the same psychological state? The point of Putnam's argument is to show that: a) the subjects have the same ps...

Fine, but that has nothing to do with what I was saying so I don't understand why you're bringing it up as a response to my comment.

And I don't understand how Davidson's comment has anything to do with me making a distinction between these two claims: 1. "p" is true iff p 2. "'p' i...

Check the rest of the comment. You may need to refresh your page as I made some substantial edits about half an hour ago. The main point is that, prim...

1. "the cat is on the mat" is a true sentence written in English iff the cat is on the mat 2. "'the cat is on the mat' is a true sentence written in E...

And I don't understand how your question is related to what I was saying.