[lit-ideas] Re: Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs (Is: Sexual Perversions in Myth)
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:52:00 -0800
One of [Tarski's] examples, and this to please Walter O. who speaks German, was:
"Schnee ist Weiss"
Nobody even _tried_ to refute him. I had to re-read my Sextus Empiricus
(Loeb) to find Tarski's T-predicate was _wrong_:
Sextus writes:
Ah, but Anaxagoras missed the point.
Tarski's initial schematization of the Semantic Conception of Truth, was
this
"Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white.
Tarski nowhere makes the absurd claim that snow is white. He'd read the
Pre-Socratics.
The SCT works equally well with
"JL is Austrian" is true iff JL is Austrian. One must be aware of the
conditional form of SCT. Conditionals were unknown to Anaxagoras,
Thales, Anaximander, etc
Robert Paul
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