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The blacks... The women... The Jews... The Dems... The Republicans... The left... The right... Americans... Trump voters... All those share the same p...

All thought, belief, and statements thereof presuppose truth. There's quite a bit of power there.

That's not true.

Seeing danger is not the same thing as seeing a lion. Danger is not a directly perceptible thing.

I disagree that anthropomorphism is inherently in our accounts of 'dumb' animals. We can acquire knowledge of all belief by looking at the right sorts...

Where did you learn how to substitute? Good for me? C'mon Banno...

Perfect. P's are floobie. Changing the terms in an argument/explanation is only acceptable if the truth conditions are maintained. You've changed the ...

:smile: I was in the middle of attempting to offer a more charitable reading(one that was more amenable to my own view, since you're claiming agreemen...

Something else needs mentioned here. Tarski was a logician. He attempted to take account of(define) truth using logical notation. It cannot be done wi...

Here's what I know... "True" is a word. The word does not make a statement correspond to fact/reality. Being called "true" does not make a statement c...

I used "requires" very deliberately. It means - if one cares to understand what I'm setting out here - that something is existentially dependent upon ...

Being true requires correspondence. Being called true requires language. Correspondence does not. Being true does not. Either being true does not requ...

Do we all know what true is?

Propositions did for philosophy what dark matter/energy does for physics.

See for yourself

Don't devolve Janus.

We're currently talking about truth as correspondence to fact/reality. To change the referent from correspondence to fact/reality to fact/reality(actu...

Using more than one sense of the same term constitutes a formal fallacy. Equivocation. It also inevitably leads to self-contradiction.

I thought he was referring to bivalence...

Gimme a minute. No worries. I'll set it out for you. A discussion of all senses requires a very careful progression, and can lead to quite a bit of co...

If truth is correspondence and this question aims at that then "truth functionality" needs to be re-worded. Otherwise, the substitution of "truth" wit...

Ok. Let's see where this leads... Concepts are existentially dependent upon language use. Do you agree?

You seem to be conflating different senses of the term.

We're not that far apart.

Correspondence to fact/reality is not a concept. "Truth" is a concept. I'd love to debate that in the proper forum. :wink:

There are remarkable differences between truth and actuality. If one equate the two, one is essentially defining "truth" as the way things are. Statem...

Is it? It's only dualistic if one holds that all statements are true or false(bivalence). I'm a strong advocate for correspondence, but do not think t...

Realizing where we went wrong(after the war begins) and/or adjusting our plan according to day to day activities doesn't require pragmatism or the pra...

That doesn't look like a good way to go... at least not from here. I mean, what's the sense in invoking working as a necessary condition. Whether or n...

Shake your head and walk away... Some who call themselves "atheists" are just as fundy as religious ones.

I do not understand this at all. Before battle, we need true belief to know how to plan. Battle begins. Sometimes what we predicted would happen does ...

One must first have a mind prior to being able to lose it.

Yes. That is the conventional standard I reject.

Just briefly glanced through the SEP article. There's much to be agreed with.

No need to step off into irrelevancy. That's not the sense of "true" or being true that we're concerned with. Although, it could be argued that a true...

It's Trump's responsibility as president to investigate corruption. He said so himself. That's what the phone call was about... that's it! He said so ...

What sorts of things can be true and what makes them so? That question gets somewhere.

Those are all different senses of the term "truth".

It's the nuanced account of what correspondence consists of in the conventional account that I disagree with. The explanation as it were.

If "the truth" is the set of germane true statements, then no. Absolutely not. Statements do not exert power. People should value true statements('the...

Truth requires belief. But... The world is spherical regardless of whether or not anyone believes the world is spherical.

Certainly. That's why it's humorous. I'll check my rule against it for accuracy.

Official Bollocks. What counts as an inch was established long before we even knew the speed of light.

With friends like that... :yikes: Be well Sapientia.

You can offer a temporary suspension.

You can realize that sometimes people do things that they later come to regret. The timeframe varies.

You can understand that that person is acting in a self-destructive way.

Sure. Some people choose to drive black during the day.

Bad luck for an entire race? Sure. Sickle cell. Bad luck for some people of that race? Sure. Walking black at night. The latter is the problem.