[lit-ideas] Re: Truth relatavized
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:33:50 -0800 (PST)
--- On Sat, 2/1/10, Walter C. Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Truth is the
> > correspondence (of a proposition) to the facts [a la
> Tarski].
>
> I did hang around long enuff to hear an answer, but I doubt
> the answer is
> coherent. Isn't it the case that facts are those kinds of
> beasties that are
> *expressed* by propositions, if true? Surely true
> propositions don't and can't
> "correspond" to facts as if facts grew on trees, or were
> encased in sherry
> casks, and were able to be individuated independent of
> propositional form.
Well this is just confusion. The fact "Snow is white" is (assumimg it true a
statement) independent of the expression "Snow is white". Its truth is, in this
sense, "individuated independent of propositional form", even if _expressing_
such a truth is not.
[The reference to facts growing on trees is neither here nor there; facts
aren't encased in sherry casks either, though some thoughts and their
expression might be influenced by the contents of such casks.]
Donal
> (Just as human being does not exist independently of its
> understanding of the
> nature of human being - HIM again - the nosing and tasting
> notes of a fine
> single malt do not exist independent of their linguistic
> description in
> Jackson's bible.)
>
> A Hapy New Year to anyone whose calendar so proclaims.
>
> Walter O.
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> > May we infere that all those writing from de Saussure
> onwards are to be
> > regarded relatavist?
> >
> > T E Fjeld
> > Eidsvoll
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