Re: Why Some Sentences Lack Truth Values
- From: "Jesse F. Hughes" <jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 06:36:23 -0400
Newberry <newberryxy@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
On May 6, 7:10 pm, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"This sentence is not true" is not a picture of any possible state
of affairs.
Yeah, yeah.
Does it bother you that some sentences "X" are meaningful, but "not X"
is meaningless (according to you)?
Which sentences are those?
According to your statement, "There are no round squares" is
meaningful and true, but its negation is meaningless. As far as I can
figger, it is not a picture of any possible state of affairs.
--
Jesse F. Hughes
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and
if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll
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