exercise
pick what you take to be a complex statement of arbitrary length (since I
am unable to tell what is the complexity of a statement-
to test your intuition consider the following
"that some philosophers are idiots entails that there is something which is
an idiot and a philosopher"
suppose you take the between quotes statements to be false, can you or
can't you state
IT's false that "...."
from your answer
all one can gather is what you take to be an operator)
once you have selected the statemnet you assess to be complex,
append to it, parataxis way,
"and that is false"
would you explain what does not "work"?
Quatsch wird gelöscht, ohne gelesen zu werden
Kerem jojjenek maskor es kulonosen masho
הִשְׁתַּדֵּל הִזְדַּקֵּן
palma, a paolo shaul םֹשׁ ְרֵגּ
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:38 AM Walter Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
Hey Paul,
Questions two:
1. Is the following itself a "very simple statement"?:
"true/false as a binary only really works with very simple statements."
2. Is it that some statements are complex and not simple? What would
that mean?
Geez, I hope Trump is listening in ...
Cheers, Walter
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On 2020-04-30 06:35, Paul Stone wrote:
One can't be a little bit pregnant, but I think one might be able to------------------------------------------------------------------
speak portions of truth. I.E.: true/false as a binary only really
works with very simple statements.
pas
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 4:52 AM Walter Okshevsky, <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Cheers, Walter
P.S. In honour of Bob: My first sentence above assumes that truth is
qualitative/scalar, as if a statement can possess a higher or lower
degree of truth. (As in "truthiness.") Of course, that's very
false.
Truth is binary, like pregnancy.
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