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On Friday, September 26, 1997 2:20 PM, David McFadzean [SMTP:david@lucifer.com] wrote:
> At 01:10 PM 9/26/97 -0700, Tim Rhodes wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, David McFadzean wrote:
>
> >> True statements about thoughts are not contradictory.
> >>
> >> 1. Robin once had a thought about Silly Putty(tm).
> >> 2. Robin has never thought about Silly Putty(tm).
> >
> >This tells us about the consistancy of true statements, but nothing about
> >thoughts that are not "true statements". Try again.
>
> My mistake. I didn't mean that objective reality is consistent, I meant
> that true isosemantic[1] statements about objective reality are consistent.
>
> [1] New word, meaning that the meaning of words doesn't change from one
> statement to the next. For example here is an apparent contradiction:
> 1. This man is blue.
> 2. This man is not blue.
>
> The statements are not isosemantic if they refer to different men, or if
> "blue" in the first sentence means the man is depressed while "blue"
> refers to the color blue in the second sentence.
>
>
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