Michael

What do you mean by a state of affairs? If you're asking if planets exist that haven't been described, then yes. I have explicitly said this many time...

You are asking this question: Do you have to have those descriptions in hand in order for there to be true descriptions? Where no description is avail...

I'm saying that a truth is something like a correct description, that a falsehood is something like "an incorrect description", that descriptions didn...

I don't think there's anything misleading about this: 1. Truth and falsity are properties of truth-bearers 2. Truth-bearers are features of language, ...

Do they exist if language doesn't? This is the core of the issue. If sentences are features of language then even if sentences are abstract my point s...

Are they mind-independent? Do sentences exist even if language doesn't? How can an abstract object have the property of truth? How can a sound be "con...

I really don't understand the difficulty you're having with the English-language argument. You seem to understand what "if human minds do not exist th...

What I'm saying is what I've said above: 1. Truth is a property of truth-bearers, and 2. Truth-bearers are features of language, not mind-independent ...

We don't know what happened to Yoon Park. We don't know if "Yoon Park was kidnapped" is true. We don't know if "Yoon Park ran away" is true. We don't ...

No, I'm saying that it's possible to say something truthful that answers the question, even if we don't know that what we are saying is true.

We don't need to know that a sentence is true for it to be true.

I mean what the word ordinarily means. It is possible to say something truthful that answers the question. How is this not clear?

I'm saying that it is possible to say something truthful that answers the question.

No, when I say that there's an answer to the question I am saying that it is possible to answer the question with a truthful sentence.

There's an answer to the question "why did Yoon Park disappear?" and the sentence "Yoon Park disappeared because he was kidnapped" is either true or f...

That depends on what they're talking about. If they're talking about the existence of aliens then either they're saying that the truth of the sentence...

Truth is (only) a property of truth-bearers. Truth-bearers did not exist 65 million years ago. Therefore, truth was not a property of anything that ex...

Truth bearers didn't exist 65 million years ago. Do you agree or disagree?

I have the normal English language where it is true that some dinosaurs had feathers.

I was referring to this: You're just repeating the same fictionalist account. Truth-bearers didn't exist 10 million years ago, even if our everyday cl...

See my previous comment.

And it's also fine to say "I don't know nothing" when claiming ignorance, even though a literal interpretation of the sentence means the opposite. So ...

What does "it" refer to? I would instead say: 1. "10 million years ago some dinosaurs had feathers" is true. Or just: 2. 10 million years ago some din...

No, I'm looking for my sunglasses. I believe that some sentence is true, yes. You're conflating Truth in a World and Truth at a World. That's anti-rea...

You're going to have to flesh this out. From here: I suppose that maybe a case can be made for (1), but I'm not arguing for any of the others.

Are they mind-independent abstract objects? I don’t believe in any such things. Truth and falsity are properties of sentences, sentences are features ...

Then what they say is true if and only if things have gotten worse. If all you mean to say is that Tarski’s T-schema is an impoverished account of nat...

If by this you mean that the sentence “it is raining” is true if and only if the rain exists then that is exactly what I have been saying.

I don’t know what you mean. Rain exists or it doesn’t.

When we say that the sentence "it is raining" is true we are saying that the sentence is true, we're not saying that the rain is true, and when we say...

I don't know what you're talking about here. You seem to understand what it means for gold to exist or to not exist, so why is it so difficult to unde...

There is no deeper metaphysics. We say things, we write things, we sign things. There's no need to overthink this.

Well so is truth. As an example, "the painting is accurate" is true if and only if the painting is accurate. You don't understand P2? You don't know w...

Because if the woman does not have red hair then the painting is inaccurate. Why IFF when you say that "it is raining" is true iff it is raining?

Perhaps this makes it clearer: P1. The painting of the woman with red hair is accurate if and only if the woman has red hair C1. Therefore, the woman ...

https://philosophynow.org/issues/32/Donald_Davidson

What I’ve been trying to explain is that it’s not at all clear what you mean by saying “truth exists” without minds given that truth is a property of ...

I think it’s directly related to the metaphysical status of truth makers. Are the things that make a sentence true mind-independent or not? Are they v...

I’m not. There’s just nothing special going on when I say that the sentence “it is raining” is written in English, contains three words, is true, and ...

Would you prefer it if I said “truth bearers are features of language”? I didn’t mean anything special by the term “entity”.

We make sounds or draw symbols and these sounds and symbols mean something to us. I don't think there's much else to add, other than to reject any kin...

I'm not saying that truth is vacuous. 1. "it is raining" is true 2. it is raining 3. it is the case that it is raining 4. it is true that it is rainin...

4 is greater than 3. 3 is smaller than 4. The same relation is described even though "greater" does not mean the same thing as "smaller". Being greate...

Just say "it is raining". Phrases like "it is the case that" and "it is true that" don't add anything to the above; they're vacuous, not actually refe...

Yes, a true sentence is about what is the case. But note that truth is a property of the sentence, not a property of the rain.

I want nothing to do with mind-independent abstract objects à la Platonism or mathematical realism.

Well, yes. A sentence about it raining is only true if there is rain, and a painting of a landscape is only accurate if there is a landscape. But trut...

Sure, and being an integer greater than the number 3 makes no sense without reference to the number 3, but being an integer greater than the number 3 ...

It's an accurate painting of the front of your house on a rainless day.

I think so, much like accuracy is a property of paintings (that resemble their subject). I certainly don’t think that accuracy is a property of the la...