McEvoy goes American and writes:"the concept of 'ok' is arguably not a very precise one compared with '3',
usually conveying a meaning that achieves only o.k. levels of precision" He is having in mind Tarski: "Snow is white is true" iff snow is white. "This is ok" iff this is ok.Alla Tarski, "A semantic conception of truth", originally published in Polish -- and cited by Popper, as "one of the best papers in philosophy, by a Polish logician, of all people".
"ok" is ok. Note: A: Do you like it? B: It is ok. A: Did you like it. B: It was ok. "The food of ok"Unlike "dead", "ok" allows for adverbial modification, adjectival modification:
"The food was _just_ ok" (cfr. the oddity, "He is just dead").----- In general, "ok" should not be used metalinguistically. A teacher is not expected to grade her students´s papers with "OK". It should not be used by politicians, either.
Grice proposed a formal logic for "ok" statements, but he lost that paper.
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