I knew this was going to be raised even as I wrote last time.
I was sloppy. What if I define AT as the state of OR? Hmmm...
I guess the crux of the issue is here:
> Absolute Truth (a proposition) with Objective Reality (a state of
> affairs)
If you say that Absolute Truth is a proposition, then obviously
AT does not equal OB. I'm proposing that we adopt something
along the lines of "absolute truth is what objective reality
is". I agree that there is a bit of incongruity there but at the
same time, that suggestion would require very little alteration
to how "truth" is used in everyday language. And I tried to show
in my previous message that something like "truth" is still a
useful term and that abandoning the term "truth" leads to
terribly awkward phrasing.
To use your example, I don't mean to say that an apple is
true. Rather that the truth of an apple (type T) is that it (on
average) has a concentration of fructose=C, a diameter=D,
contains N seeds, and so on.
Jason
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