Three of Bob's favorites:
1. A Roman walks into a bar, shows the bartender two fingers, and says:
"Five beers, please."
2. Fellow walks into an Athenian tailor shop with his torn jacket:
Fellow: Eumendies?
Tailor: Euripedies?
3. Ever notice entropy just isn't what it used to be?
Cheers, Walter
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On 2020-04-30 15:04, Omar Kusturica wrote:
Well if a statement is intelligible but not decidable then yes it------------------------------------------------------------------
compromises that concept of truth.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 4:39 PM adriano paolo shaul gershom palma
<palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
decidability got zippo to do with truth
for those with a philosophy training the easy examples are Goedelian
sentences (from the 1920's) - such sentences are true and non
decidable
_~Bew_(G(_p_)) <-> P
Quatsch wird gelöscht, ohne gelesen zu werden
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Kerem jojjenek maskor es kulonosen masho
הִשְׁתַּדֵּל הִזְדַּקֵּן
palma, a paolo shaul םֹשׁ ְרֵגּ
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 4:28 PM Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
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 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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