Thank you, Ritchie, for the information on green grass growing.
Some references below on how philosophers _need_ examples of silly things to
say when they are _teaching_ things like "conjunction" and "disjunction".
Hardly anything necessarily language-philosophical about them. Indeed
mathematical logic as taught in computer-science programs is based on
truth-functional
operators like that. Fortunately, they don't need more than _two_ such
sentences, since Aristotle never conceived of a trinary operator.
(I also disagree with roses being red (one example below -- In Latin, rosa
rosa -- which translates in Spanish as "La rosa es rosa" -- no such thing as a
_red_ rose which is like a _contradictio-in-terminis_.
I was partly ironic in making the game boring by including on the subject
line, "Collected Papers" by Tarski -- Which I'd catalogue under "LOGIC", not
"PHILOSOPHY" anyway (and foreign at that!)
Cheers,
JLS
BA, Argentina
“Snow is white and grass is green” is true-in-L iff snow is white and grass
is green. (lines 3, 4, subst.) Another language. The terms: ...
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‘snow is white’ and snow is white) or it is the case that (s = ‘grass
is green’. and grass is green)]. Which of the following would be true,
according to ...
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"Snow is white" is indeed true if and only if grass is green. But that,
of course, is just a coincidence. Even if grass were not green ...
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If snow is white and grass is green, then roses are red and violets are
blue. 2. Snow is white and grass is green. 3. Therefore, roses are red and
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zea2mXSQ) The thought that grass is green could not possibly have had
the content that snow is white. Since thoughts have their contents as part of
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by L., Otherwise, so far as truth conditions go, the English sentence
"Snow is white" could just as well mean that grass is green, since "Snow is
white" is true ...
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