Re: Epistemology 101

From: David Longley (David_at_longley.demon.co.uk)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:18:41 +0000

In article <cqqfmv$dg6$1@usenet.cso.niu.edu>, Neil W Rickert
<rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu> writes
>"robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> writes:
>
>>Aristotle and Tarski use the same definition of truth. A statment is
>>true if and only if it asserts a fact.
>
>Perhaps Aristotle gave that definition. I don't know about Tarski.
>If you take that as the basis for truth, then please provide the
>basis for factuality.
>
>As far as I know, Tarski defined the conditions for truth in a formal
>language, assuming that there is already a concept of truth available
>in natural language.
>
>
Tarksi made it clear that truth could not be reliably established in
natural language. But truth is not pursued using natural language, it's
pursued using artificial languages, i.e. the empirical languages of
science. These are, as has been said, and demonstrated here (some would
say ad nauseam, whilst still not learning from it), ....extensional.

Arguing about this in natural language (which is largely intensional) is
therefore completely futile. You should therefore stop, and learn how to
do some science instead. But you won't..... See below. 

-- 
David Longley
http://www.longley.demon.co.uk/Frag.htm

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