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Re: Why Some Sentences Lack Truth Values

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From: jesko
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 14:48
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On 4 Mag, 16:47, Newberry <newberr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We will utilize the following three definitions.
>
> Definition 1: A sentence is meaningful if and only if it is a picture
> of a possible state of affairs.
>
> Definition 2: A sentence is true if and only if it corresponds to an
> actual state of affairs.
>
> Definition 3: A sentence is false if its negation corresponds to an
> actual state of affairs.
>
> To further characterize possible we can say that it means imaginable.
> Ludwig Wittgenstein says something very similar. He alludes to
> imaginability a few times: If I can imagine objects combined in states
> of affairs, I cannot imagine them excluded from the possibility of
> such combinations. [TLP 2.0121], We picture facts to ourselves. [TLP
> 2.1] A picture is a model of reality. [TLP 2.12] Finally he says: A
> picture represents a possible situation in a logical space [TLP 2.202]
> But what does "possible" mean? What is thinkable is possible too. [TLP
> 3.02] So we have: A picture represents a thinkable situation in a
> logical space. What is thinkable? 'A state of affairs is thinkable':
> what this means is that we can picture it to ourselves. [TLP 3.001] So
> finally we have: A situation in a logical space is a state of affairs
> we that can picture to ourselves.  ...
>
> http://xnewberry.tripod.com/SentencesLackTruthValues.html


thinkable = "of a given thing thought is given"
But of a possible thing thought is also given?
No. There is some possible but not thinkable.
Yes. A thing and its relative thought are identical?
No. Thinkable is possible
Yes....
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