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Article #744Re: Truth again
From: jimmy donal wales
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:41
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:41
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Svein: >>Hope you're not the Jamie that Aerosmith sing[?] about. Jamie: >I wouldn't know. Presumably, I am, relative to SOME interpretation.... This is precisely what I find so bizarre about your position. I don't want to argue about it, really, since I don't know much about this whole area. But I would like some more information. What is a proposition, as distinct from a sentence? I've always (well, not always, only for the past few years since I heard about such things!) thought of propositions as equivalence classes for sentences. But I'm not sure how this fits into your interpretational scheme. Do propositions need interpretation? Or is interpretation the scheme that transforms a sentence into a proposition? Did you say that mental states need interpretation? It seems more plausible to say that (at least some!) mental states (or processes) ARE interpretation. Anyhow, anything you can say to shed light here would be appreciated. I'm not above reading a book, if you want to suggest one. After all, Christmas vacation IS coming up and Randall hasn't come through with his promised suggested reading on QM. (Nudge, nudge.) I wish Mikhail Zeleny would attack me. --Jimbo
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Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!silver.ucs.indiana.edu!jwales From: jwales@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (jimmy donal wales) Subject: Re: Truth again Message-ID: <Bz9ILn.HJD@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: silver.ucs.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University References: <1gib6mINN76i@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:41:47 GMT Lines: 33