[lit-ideas] Re: Understanding Why The Compressor Shorted To Ground

  • From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:37:27 -0330

Quoting John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>:

> On Nov 26, 2007 5:52 AM,  <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -------> At best, unclear. What is the "it" that can be both true and
> false? If
> > it refers to a statement (or proposition), then "it" cannot be both T and
> F. No
> > statement can be both T and F.
> > >
> 

To which John goes:

> Could it be, however, both Not T and Not F, or is it just that we
> can't know which, e.g., Schrodinger's Cat?
> 
> John

And then Walter goes:

I don't see how a statement can be neither T nor F. Isn't it part of the meaning
of a statement (proposition) that it must be either T or F? (Like the statement
itself that a statement must be either T or F?) I would think this question
holds regardless of our (present) epistemic abilitiies to determine whether a
given statement is T or F.  (Though this may not hold with moral statements, if
Habermas is correct and moral rightness is completely exhausted by ideal
warranted assertability or reasonable agreement under idealized conditions of
symmetry and reciprocity.)

"A. Kenny's wife was 12 years younger than him and didn't much care what the
Pope thought about celibacy in the priesthood." That statement is either T or
F, even though you may not know how to establish its truth or falsity. 

I don't now recall the reference to the cat you cite above. Does the cat meow a
philosophical point?

Walter O
MUN



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