Currently I have a laptop on my lap. When I tell you this I am not
INTENDING to refer to any model or to part of any model.
BS (01)
At 10:18 PM 7/17/2007, you wrote:
> 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.
>
>Both kinds of statements can be represented in Tarski model theory.
>
>K
>
>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
> >
> >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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