Waclaw Kusnierczyk wrote:
> John F. Sowa wrote:
>> Aristotle gave one of the best definitions of truth and falsity,
>> which is still much better than 99% of what people have been
>> saying in this thread:
>>
>> To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that
>> it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and
>> of what is not that it is not, is true. (Metaphysics IV, 7).
>
> Sounds good, but here reality is defined in terms of truth, and thus
> defining truth in terms of (correspondence to) reality is inevitably
> circular. (01)
Oops, I was to quick here ;) (02)
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