ill formed?
compare
philosophers are stupid
(compared to what? snail? dust? go grandmasters?, etc.)
hence if that is ill formed
bananas're yellow is illformed
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 6:07 PM Walter Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
"Walter is tall" is an ill-formed (vague/ambiguous) statement. "Walter
is tall in comparison with Louise (who is 5'2")" is a well formed
statement and its truth is binary. One can't worship truthiness on the
altar of ambiguity. (And, anyway, everyday life is very over-rated in
philosophical terms.)
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On 2020-04-30 11:54, Omar Kusturica 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 be ableto
speak portions of truth. I.E.: true/false as a binary only reallyis
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
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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