[lit-ideas] Re: Grice and Foot on the foundations of morality/Correction
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:54:38 +0100 (BST)
I had written:-
> Following Tarski, we
> can safely say that the statement 'The grass is green' is
> true, if (and only if) the grass is green. This
> correspondence is 'ontic' or existence-based, not
> knowledge-based. That is, it depends only on the existence
> of states-of-affairs that correspond with those asserted by
> the statement - it does depend, at all, on whether anyone
> knows or believes that the state-of-affairs exists so as to
> correspond with the statement.
As I hope might be obvious, I should have written "it does NOT depend, at all,
on whether anyone knows" etc.
Donal
Now where's the phone-number of the proof-reader for that guy who wrote "The
Corrections"?
Ldn
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