Michael

Works great for me. And I'm not a fan of CMSs like Wordpress and Magento. Thankfully I only really work with custom-made sites.

I was questioning what grammar has to do with truth makers, not with descriptions. The important part was what I said next: If we're using the corresp...

You're deflecting. Yes. But this is identical to seeing the green grass. Yes or no? I didn't say that facts weren't discovered. I said that scientific...

Why does grammar matter? If we're using the correspondence theory of truth, a proposition is true if it corresponds to a state-of-affairs, and if we'r...

And green grass can be observed. So what's the difference between observing green grass and observing the fact that the grass is green? If nothing the...

I might say that the green grass makes the proposition "the grass is green" true. You're saying that the facts are not the physical things that they'r...

I don't know what to make of this. I certainly don't think we can talk about expected evidence until we have a clear understanding of what a fact is. ...

Then how do we show that the fact is observer-independent? We can perhaps show that the thing is observer-independent, but if we say that the fact isn...

So the fact isn't the observer-independent physical thing?

Some certainly are. The fact that I'm watching you, for example. As for Wittgenstein, he says "facts cannot strictly speaking be defined, but we can e...

I think grandpa needs Internet lessons.

Hindenburg.

Or I could just shave my head and grow a beard. Then I won't look like the person in the video.

You have early onset dementia. It wasn't your hand. Tone, lowered. I'm channeling my inner @"Hanover" .

I don't shower. Or sing. Also, if you made a recording of me then you must already know where I live. To conclude, you're a terrible conman. And that'...

Given that Jesus Christ is the Truth, you just affirmed Wosret's claim.

But you're Canadian, so don't deserve my support. Does that make me racist?

I don't know how I sound. It's been years since I've heard a recording of myself.

We should have Theresa May debate someone like Joey Essex. Aside from the hilarity, it would give Wosret a good glimpse of the variety in British acce...

Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, West Country, Estuary, Received Pronunciation, Scottish, Welsh, Irish... There's a lot of British accents (and, yes, lots of...

Like a Rampant Rabbit?

But still True.

So the term "Truth" is just a meaningless label that's meant to sound impressive?

The latest date I can see is John, which was around 110 AD. But isn't a truth a true statement? So the Truth is the True Statement. Christ is the True...

Even if I know that Donald Trump is the President of the United States, it doesn't follow that "Donald Trump is the President of the United States" is...

I don't see how this follows. If one sentence is more informative than another then they don't refer to the same thing? I would say that "Andrew" and ...

No, because if it's true under one interpretation and false under another then it isn't both true and false in the same sense. It's true in one sense ...

I didn't say it was. I said that the truth or falsity of "X" depending on interpretation doesn't lead to a contradiction, contrary to your earlier cla...

But not both true and false in the same sense, given that whether or not its true depends upon the interpretation. So it doesn't conflict with the law...

That's why you're wrong with what you said here: The different interpretations are not the same sense, and so no contradiction arises if the truth or ...

You were discussing the claim that the truth of "X" depends upon an interpretation, and claiming that this entails that "X" can be both true and false...

A better account of the law of non-contradiction is "contradictory statements cannot both be true in the same sense at the same time". The in the same...

I think my edit pre-empted this response.

I wonder if perhaps "the death of Caesar" only refers to the event of his body shutting down whereas "the murder of Caesar" refers also to the events ...

I think this is a useful example of how meaning is different to reference. Both "it is raining" and "the weather outside" can refer to the same thing ...

But what does that have to do with the meaning of the word? You might intend for me to turn left, and this might cause you to say "turn right" – but a...

I didn't say that. I said that they're not the authority – they don't dictate what words mean – and that if Merriam-Webster doesn't account for the "v...

Ah, the Simpsons rationale. How fitting that yours is also yellow.

A wise American owl provides greater juxtaposition than a wise British owl. Am I right, @"Sapientia"?

Given that using the word "meaning" in the context of talking about value, as in "my girlfriend means a lot to me", is a conventional use of the term,...

It's a selfie.

Well, if you define computation as involving symbols, and if you define symbols as things that have a particular meaning to us, then it follows by def...

Whatever it means in the context of "the meaning of a word". According to Wittgenstein, and probably other philosophers, it would be wrong to interpre...

I'm not saying that you're conflating meaning and intention. I'm saying that you're conflating different meanings of "meaning"; the one which is "inte...

Again you're conflating. There's a difference between what someone intends when they speak and what the words mean. I might intend for you to turn lef...

This is very unclear. If the meaning of a word is some physical thing that it refers to (say an apple), then if I eat that physical thing then I've ea...

So for something to count as computation, the output has to be useful? Then how about the physical processes that brought about the Sun, or DNA? I thi...

But what does that mean? If it's just a case of taking some input, doing something with it, and then outputting the result, then every physical proces...

So they're contingent facts. But are they brute, or can them having the values they have (in whichever possible world) be explained by something else?

Brute facts. Are there facts that do not have explanations? For example, why do the physical constants have the values they have? Does this question h...