This is another example of an ill-formed statement. I'm not clear that
it's even intelligible as rendered. And since the meaning of a statement
is determined by its truth conditions, and we don't know what the truth
conditions here are, we can conclude that it doesn't have any meaning.
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Faculty of Education
cross-appointed to Department of Philosophy
Memorial University
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Email: wokshevs@xxxxxx
On 2020-04-30 11:58, Omar Kusturica wrote:
I am a good chess player in comparison to someone who just knows how------------------------------------------------------------------
the horsie movies, but bad in comparison to a grandmaster. Without
some further qualification, the statement "Omar is a good chess
player" while intelligible, is not really decidable.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 4:24 PM Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I am not sure that Robert subscribed to a binary notion of truth in
all contexts. Yes, pregnancy would be an example of binary truth,
but there are plenty of examples in every-day life where it is
non-binary - Walter is tall in comparison to whom ?
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 2:33 PM Walter Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi pas,
So, as Husserl was wont to say: Provide us with an example and
we'll
grant you all the rest. Give us a complex statement that is both
true
and false, i.e., truthy.
"Portions of truth"? "Truth" is not a count noun. You can't
dispense it
in portions as you would a cheese cake.
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 beable to
speak portions of truth. I.E.: true/false as a binary onlyreally
works with very simple statements.<wokshevs@xxxxxx>
pas
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 4:52 AM Walter Okshevsky,
wrote:truth is
Cheers, Walter
P.S. In honour of Bob: My first sentence above assumes that
lower
qualitative/scalar, as if a statement can possess a higher or
------------------------------------------------------------------degree of truth. (As in "truthiness.") Of course, that's very
false.
Truth is binary, like pregnancy.
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