[lit-ideas] Re: Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
- From: Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Paul)
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 09 Feb 2005 15:16:14 PST
From the void, JL writes:
It's interesting that Tarski (a philosopher Popper admired) thought that
'snow [was] white' was _analytic (along with 'grass is green').
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I'm not sure where Tarski says that either 'Snow is white' (or 'Snow was white')
is 'analytic.'
If he had, then 'Snow is white,' would have been an odd choice to fill the
left-hand side of the formula used to explicate the 'semantic conception of
truth.'
Of course, one never knows, as the mystic said to the sceptic.
Robert Paul
Reed College
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