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Single Idea 9134
[filed under theme 19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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Full Idea
The negation of any meaningful sentence must itself be meaningful.
Gist of Idea
The negation of a meaningful sentence must itself be meaningful
Source
Roy Sorensen (Vagueness and Contradiction [2001], 8.1)
Book Ref
Sorensen,Roy: 'Vagueness and Contradiction' [OUP 2004], p.125
A Reaction
Nice. Compare 'there is another prime number beyond the highest one we have found' with its negation. The first seems verifiable in principle, but the second one doesn't. So the verificationist must deny Sorensen's idea?
The
20 ideas
from Roy Sorensen
9119
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No attempt to deny bivalence has ever been accepted
[Sorensen]
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9116
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Vague words have hidden boundaries
[Sorensen]
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9118
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The colour bands of the spectrum arise from our biology; they do not exist in the physics
[Sorensen]
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9121
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Illusions are not a reason for skepticism, but a source of interesting scientific information
[Sorensen]
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9137
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Banning self-reference would outlaw 'This very sentence is in English'
[Sorensen]
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9139
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If nothing exists, no truthmakers could make 'Nothing exists' true
[Sorensen]
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9140
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Which toothbrush is the truthmaker for 'buy one, get one free'?
[Sorensen]
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9122
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God cannot experience unwanted pain, so God cannot understand human beings
[Sorensen]
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9125
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Denying problems, or being romantically defeated by them, won't make them go away
[Sorensen]
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9124
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We are unable to perceive a nose (on the back of a mask) as concave
[Sorensen]
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9126
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Bayesians build near-certainty from lots of reasonably probable beliefs
[Sorensen]
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9128
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It is propositional attitudes which can be a priori, not the propositions themselves
[Sorensen]
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9130
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Attributing apriority to a proposition is attributing a cognitive ability to someone
[Sorensen]
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9129
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I can buy any litre of water, but not every litre of water
[Sorensen]
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9131
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Two long understandable sentences can have an unintelligible conjunction
[Sorensen]
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9132
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An offer of 'free coffee or juice' could slowly shift from exclusive 'or' to inclusive 'or'
[Sorensen]
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9133
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Propositions are what settle problems of ambiguity in sentences
[Sorensen]
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9134
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The negation of a meaningful sentence must itself be meaningful
[Sorensen]
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9135
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We now see that generalizations use variables rather than abstract entities
[Sorensen]
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9136
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The paradox of analysis says that any conceptual analysis must be either trivial or false
[Sorensen]
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