Re: closing semantic issues (reification)

At 03:52 PM 11/7/01 +0000, Brian McBride wrote:
>It seems to me that I want to say:
>
>   I believe the sky is blue
>
>in which case I'm asserting my attitude towards the abstract sentence -the 
>sky is blue-.
>
>I also want to be able to say
>
>   the sky is green is stated in http://example on 1st April 2013.
>   the sky is green is stated in http://anotherExample on 2nd April 2013.
>
>Don't we need both concepts?

For myself, I have only felt a need for the first of the above concepts.

(But noting that
   On 1st April 2013, http://example states that the sky is green
is a variant of the first case.  I.e. an assertion about an attitude 
towards the abstract sentence -the sky is green-.)

#g


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