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Re: [ontolog-forum] {Disarmed} Reality and Truth

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From: Ingvar Johansson <ingvar.johansson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 12:03:01 +0200
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Waclaw Kusnierczyk schrieb:
> And I can use the term 'truth' to name my left thumb, the concept of a 
> pizza as a concept, or whatever else -- and then we can fight over what 
> truth is.  But if, as it seemed to me, we were discussing the truth of a 
> statement or theory as its correctly describing thee facts, then it 
> seemed obvious to me that a statement may either describe the facts 
> correctly or not    (01)

But, and this is what makes me a bit emotional, I have never denied 
this. Even using the concept of truthlikeness, *every* statement is 
either 100% true or not.    (02)

>  -- possibly partially correctly in the latter case, but 
>   still incorrectly.  Hence the notion of two-valued truth, and defense 
> against degrees of it.
>       (03)

But let us end here :-)
Ingvar    (04)



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