Pat Hayes schrieb:
>> KCliffer@xxxxxxx schrieb:
>>> Paola,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to restrain myself, because I think we're coming to a basic
>>> agreement in this line of thought.
>>
>> I am happy to join what I take to be your agreement on the concept of
>> truth. Let me just test my understanding.
>>
>> In one of her mails, Paola wrote: "Truth (like falseness) is a quality
>> of a statement or assertion about reality." In philosophicl ontology, it
>> is sometimes necessary to distinguish between *monadic qualities* and
>> *relational qualities*. The quality of "being a sphere" is monadic;
>> when there is an instance of sphericity it simply inheres in a thing.
>> The quality of "being more spherelike than the Earth", on the other
>> hand, is a relational quality. If we claim "Venus is more spherelike
>> than the Earth", then we claim not only that Venus has a certain shape,
>> we also claim that this shape stands in a certain *relationship* to
>> another shape. Now, what has this distinction with the truth concept
>> to do?
>>
>> In my understanding of Ken's nice exposition, truth as a "quality of a
>> statement" cannot possibly be a monadic quality, it has to be a
>> *relational quality*; it must bring in a relation of correspondence
>> between the statement and something that ought to be called a
>> *truthmaker*. To claim that a statement is completely true is to claim
>> that it has a relation of complete correspondence to a truthmaker; to
>> claim that it is truthlike is to claim that it has a relation of partial
>> correspondence to a truthmaker.
>>
>> Do you (at least Ken and Paola) agree?
>
> I agree. Although I am slightly puzzled by your use of the indefinite
> article. Do you think there can be many truthmakers? (01)
Yes, since I think that reality is structured (even processes are
structured) and that assertions can pick out and be about only a tiny
little bit of Reality as a whole. (02)
Ingvar (03)
>
> Pat Hayes
>
> (04)
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