Pat Hayes wrote:
>> Reality doesn't exist in the absence of perspective. Reality is
>> subjective, not objective.
>
> Absolute nonsense. Reality existed for billions
> of years before there was anything that could
> form a subjective view of it. If, as seems quite
> possible, this planet contains the only life
> capable of having a subjective view, and our sun
> goes nova and wipes us all out, the universe will
> carry on being objectively real without noticing
> our passing.
>
>> When people speak, they speak the truth if
>> they say what is real for them.
>
> No. They speak the truth when what they say is in
> fact the case, in the actual world.
>
>> The *real* worlds are the worlds that
>> are real *for persons*.
>
> No, the real world is the one that persons
> inhabit and are part of. There is only one of it. (01)
haven't you just said that logical semantics is a theory of truth? what
about the semantics of modal logics? isn't it a theory of truth which
consists of multiple, concurrent so-called 'possible worlds'? (02)
vQ (03)
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