From your response, I infer that you may NOT actually have been
attempting to say something about reality itself. Rather, you may
have invented a fictional cat and a fictional carpet as a rhetorical
device to make a point. You intended to make the point that people
talk about reality itself and not about models, but in fact you made
the point that people can talk about fictional entities as rhetorical
devices. (01)
Both kinds of statements can be represented in Tarski model theory. (02)
K (03)
At 8:38 PM +0200 7/17/07, Smith, Barry wrote:
>Of course. 'Tibbles' is his name. 'Carbles' is the name of the carpet.
>BS
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>At 03:52 PM 7/17/2007, you wrote:
>> > >>> When I say 'the cat is on the mat' I, for one, am not intending
>> >>>> to create a model of reality. Rather, I am attempting to say
>> > >>> something about reality itself (this very cat).
>>
>>Was there actually a cat you had in mind when you wrote that? Was it
>>really on a mat?
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