[lit-ideas] Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs (Is: Sexual Perversions in Myth)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:34:23 EST
"I will say that it is true
that snow is white because
snow _is_ white"
Tarski.
R. Paul writes in reply to D. McEvoy:
"Just as Tarski's notion that 'P' is true, iff P, leaves it to the
truth-seeker to use his or her own favorite way of determining whether P, so S
leaves
it open as to how 'p' is established."
Although Polish (and Polish-writing) Alfred Tarski was the idol of the
German-speaking _Wiener Kriese_. And it is in German that his 'Semantic
Conception
of Truth' is best known.
One of his examples, and this to please Walter O. who speaks German, was:
"Schnee ist Weiss"
----
Nobody even _tried_ to refute him. I had to re-read my Sextus Empiricus
(Loeb) to find Tarski's T-predicate was _wrong_:
Sextus writes:
"Anaxagoras countered the [ultimately Tarskian] notion
that snow is white with the argument,
'Snow is frozen water,
and water is black;
therefore snow also is black"
[Anaxagoras to leuken eina ten khiona antetithei hoti he khion hudor esti
pepegos, to de hudor esti melan, kai he khion ara melaina estin.]
"Anaxagoras countered the notion"
Anaxagoras atetithei
"that snow is white"
khiona eina leuken
with the argument,
hoti
'Snow is frozen water,
khion esti pepegos hudor
and water is black;
de to hudor esti melan
therefore snow also is black"
ara he khion kai estin melaina"
[Anaxagoras to leuken eina ten khiona antetithei hoti he khion hudor esti
pepegos, to de hudor esti melan, kai he khion ara melaina estin.]
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