Re: Fitch's paradox and OWA
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:15:03 -0400
Message-ID: <4b3c4f80$0$5350$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
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> No. Not surely. Since by our assumption here is nobody would know about
> his handed-ness, his nervous system to both arms might not have functioned
> at all to begin with and hence whether or not he was left-handed is moot
> and is not-truth assignable. As well, there are people are strong equally
> on both arms and therefore handed-ness is not applicable to them.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:15:03 -0400
Message-ID: <4b3c4f80$0$5350$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
> Daryl McCullough wrote:
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>> Marshall says...
>>
>>> I believe Nam is roughly of the opinion that if we can't know which
>>> one of {true, false} a sentence is, then we have no basis for saying
>>> it must be one or the other.
>>
>> But typically, for some statements such as "The Greek philosopher
>> Plato was left-handed" I don't know whether the statement is true
>> or not, and I also don't know whether anyone else knows whether it
>> is true or not, and I don't know whether it is *possible*, at this
>> late date, to find out whether it is true or not.
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>> But surely, it's either true or false, right?
>
> No. Not surely. Since by our assumption here is nobody would know about
> his handed-ness, his nervous system to both arms might not have functioned
> at all to begin with and hence whether or not he was left-handed is moot
> and is not-truth assignable. As well, there are people are strong equally
> on both arms and therefore handed-ness is not applicable to them.
-- is there something in it for them, like maybe bailouts, if they can panic us into doing something politically to cover them? November 19, 2007 - John S Bolton http://tinyurl.com/y9e4vxhReceived on Thu Dec 31 2009 - 08:15:03 CET