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On 3/18/2024 5:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
> On 2021-03-27 14:54:31 +0000, olcott said:
> 
>> Most people construe the term "absolute truth" as necessarily coming 
>> from the mind of God, thus atheists reject absolute truth. Philosophy 
>> leaves religion out of it and says that analytical truth can be 
>> verified on the basis of its meaning.
>>
>> Because Quine had such a hard time understanding that bachelors are 
>> unmarried in his "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" I have adapted the 
>> definition of analytical truth so that it can be more directly divided 
>> from other forms of truth:
> 
> It is a sin to say anything untrue about other people.
> 
>> (1) Expressions of language that are defined to be true and
> 
> Truth is not a matter of definition.
> 
>> (2) Expressions of language that have been derived on the basis of 
>> applying truth preserving operations.
> 
> Only affirmative sentences and only if derived from true sentences.
> 
> Note that the word "sentence" has different meanings in comp.thery
> and sci.lang. In the former (and in sci.logic) it usually excludes
> all but affirmative sentences.
> 

I am redefining analytical truth such that it is entirely
comprised of expressions that are stipulated to be true
Facts, and expressions that are a necessary consequence of
these Facts.


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Copyright 2024 Olcott

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