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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: True on the basis of meaning (and not any other kind)
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 10:19:47 -0500
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On 8/9/2024 3:46 AM, Mikko wrote:
> On 2024-08-08 16:01:19 +0000, olcott said:
> 
>>
>> It does seem that he is all hung up on not understanding
>> how the synonymity of bachelor and unmarried works.
> 
> What in the synonymity, other than the synonymity itself,
> would be relevant to Quine's topic?
> 

He mentions it 98 times in his paper
https://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html
I haven't looked at it in years.

>> I don't really give a rat's ass what he said all that matters
>> to me is that I have defined expressions of language that are
>> {true on the basis of their meaning expressed in language}
>> so that I have analytic(Olcott) to make my other points.
> 
> That does not justify lying.
> 

I never lie. Sometimes I make mistakes.
It looks like you only want to dodge the actual
topic with any distraction that you can find.

Expressions of language that are {true on the basis of
their meaning expressed in this same language} defines
analytic(Olcott) that overcomes any objections that
anyone can possibly have about the analytic/synthetic
distinction.

-- 
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hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer