Saturday, May 26, 2012
Meaning, Ontology and Anti-Realism Handout
1)
~ ($x) x
is a colored physical object.
2)
($x) x
is a colored physical object.
3)
~ ($x) x
is a chair & x is blue.
4)
There is
a blue chair in the attic.
5)
We don’t
know what we mean when we engage in vernacular utterances like 4).
6)
There are
seven people in the room but only six chairs.
7)
There was
a severe sugar-shortage in Moscow this winter.
8)
Some
shapes (i.e., shape properties) are uninstantiated.
9)
There is
a possibility that James will come.
10) The statement that James will come is not
certainly false.
11) ($x) x
is a possibility.
12) ($x) x
is a sugar-shortage.
13) There is a brown cow in the barn.
14) There is a meaning which can be given to his
remarks.
15) His remarks can be understood in a certain
way.
16) The direction of a is the same as the
direction of b.
17) Line a is parallel to line b.
18) The number of Fs is the same as the number of
Gs.
19) There are just as many Fs as Gs.
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