Re: All panduks are green

Newberry says...

If you want to argue that one horn is not the essence of unicorness,
and therefore "all unicorns have two horns" is not analytic, that's
fine. But it still does not make the sentence true.

Whoa, Nellie! How is it not true? It is meaningful, right? And
hence has a truth value, right?

No. Meaningless statements are a proper subset of statements that do
not have a truth value.

Look, we know perfectly well the conditions under which "all Xs are Ys"
can be assigned a truth value true or false. If there is some object
that is X but is not a Y, then the sentence "all Xs are Ys" is true.
Otherwise, it is false.

What is the *point* of calling it meaningless? What is the *point*
of saying it has no truth value, when we have a perfectly good
way to assign it a truth value?

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Daryl McCullough
Ithaca, NY

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