Re: RE: RE: RE: RE: Philosophical Problems at home: Explaining "what the hell you're doing" to y

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Hi,

Matt's shocked, but I lived with a member of the Tory party last year so 
i'm not so sensitive. I'm also in a bit of a rush so i've limited myself to 
what I can say briefly...the numbers refer to AG's comments from the last 
email:

1) All this reply does is contradict the quoted proposition - it's not an 
argument and so not useful.

2) I don't criticise this but we have to consider the position (i can't 
reference or even name drop this but it might be Wittgenstein or Kripke or 
be denied or discussed by one of them) that statements that cannot be false 
do not count as statements.

General: I wonder whether Kripke's necessity/a priori/certain distinction 
(or is it tristinction - i'd very much like that to be a word, so I hereby 
denominate the seperating of three items as different 'tristinction' - can 
I be wrong about this!?) might come in useful here - as I said, in a rush, 
gotta shoot.

Cheers,
Daniel




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