[lit-ideas] Re: Try a Logic Problem
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 10:21:56 -0700 (PDT)
--- wokshevs@xxxxxx wrote:
Perhaps the only way
> to show that a belief or
> statement is true is through its relation(s) to
> other beliefs or statements.
> This is of course Richard Rorty's position.
Let's see: "The post office is behind the corner." How
do I verify the truth of this statement, do I go there
and look, or do I evaluate the statement in relation
to my previously held beliefs on the matter ? The
first approach would seem rather more helfpul and
reliable.
As a communicational tool, language gives us an
ability to make truth-claims that convey novel
information about states of affairs.
O.K.
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