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Article #1054Re: Why Some Sentences Lack Truth Values
From: jesko
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 14:48
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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