- From: Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@att.net>
- Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:04:38 -0400
- To: Story Henry <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- CC: Jon Awbrey's Inquiry Project <inquiry@stderr.org>, Semantic Web Forum <semantic-web@w3.org>, Ontolog Forum <ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net>, Arisbe <arisbe@stderr.org>
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Story Henry wrote:
>
> Calling in a Redundancy theory of truth is very misleading.
Yes, I agree.
I didn't pick the name, and don't over all buy this line.
I merely tried to give a moderately close reading of the
main points in Ramsey's argument.
> There is a big difference between "Snow is white" and the
> fact of snow being white. It just looks redundant because
> we are expressing both in language. But it is already very
> different when you look at the same sentence in French
>
> "La neige est blanche" is true in French iff Snow is white.
>
> That is saying the same thing, but is not at all redundant.
>
> This goes further, there is a big difference between
> a sentence quoted and one believed. So I might say:
>
> Joe believes "Jim kissed Jane" .
>
> Or in N:
>
> ---8<--------
> @prefix x: <http://www.gnowsis.org/ont/kissology#> .
>
> :joe cog:believes { :Jim x:kissed :Jane } .
> ---8<--------
>
> And believing it
>
> ---8<--------
> :Jim x:kissed :Jane .
> ---8<--------
>
> Perhaps the second one was reached because
> I believe a stupid rule such as:
>
> ---8<--------
> { :joe cog:believes { ?a ?r ?b . } } => { ?a ?r ?b . }
> ---8<--------
>
> ie I believe whatever I believe joe to believe.
>
> The second might trigger some serious actions, and many films
> have been made about the predisposition of jealous people to
> jump too quickly from the belief statement to the later one,
> and the situations this leads them to.
>
> This is because belief and action and so emotions are closely related.
>
> Anyway, this is far from being redundant.
>
> Henry
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