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Re:Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult ... by bencollier49 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @04:13AM (#18119647)
In the original, we are not proposing separate worlds though, not in that sense.

1. I assert that it is not raining. 2. It is not raining.

This chap saying that 1 and 2 exist in the same world, and are therefore contradictory. Equivalence of statement and assertion.

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Re:Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult ... by _emacsomancer_ on Monday October 08, 2018 @01:24PM (#18169347)
It makes no sense to me to conflate logical statements and (human) speaker-anchored assertions. When semanticists work on natural language meaning, this requires use of the formal languages. It makes no sense to me to hard-wire human-speakers into a system of abstract logic (which we need when we reason about human speakers).
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