Re: Disjunction in propositional logic

From: Babylonian_Astrologer (starofbabylon_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: 12 Sep 2004 21:43:04 -0700

G. Frege <no_spam@aol.com> wrote in message news:<31t7k0dat7mjk7q10i8qatjfj2coqk8er5@4ax.com>...
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 01:33:39 +0200, Karl Weber <dudendude@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > > >
> > > > A = "In 2004, Easter falls in March"
> > > > B = "In 2004, Easter falls in April"
> > > >
> > > Absolute precision is a fool's errand.
> > >
> > Sure... however, for a 'normal' listener, the proposition "In 2004, Easter
> > falls in March" unambiguously enough designates one specific instance of
> > Easter, while "Easter falls in March" doesn't (at least not for me, that's
> > where my initial confusion came from).
> >
> Right. We might also "interpret" your
>
> In 2004, Easter falls in March
> as
> Easter (2004) falls in March.
>
> Indeed, the task is to "designate one specific instance of Easter".
>
>
> F.

designate one specific instance of Easter **for a 'normal' listener**

so, the original sentence P may or may not be a proposition, depending
on the speaker and listener?

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