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" Cambridge is ten miles away" are used differently because they are known to be true in different places; and similarly in time for "It is now 1980" and "1980 is two years ago." Truth conditions give meanings less problematically here than in mathematics... "
Language and Time - Seite 38
von Quentin Smith - 2002 - 262 Seiten
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Real Time

D. H. Mellor - 1981 - 220 Seiten
...conditions give meanings less problematically here than in mathematics and elsewhere for another reason too. For a sentence's truth conditions to give its meaning,...is green, since 'Snow is white' is true and grass 15 green. 'Snow is white' is indeed true if and only if grass is green. But that, of course, is just...
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The New Theory of Time

Professor L Nathan Oaklander, University Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Philosophy Quentin Smith - 1994 - 414 Seiten
...biconditional is true in all and only the possible worlds in which the mentioned utterance is true. Mellor makes this point in an intuitively clear manner...is green, since "Snow is white" is true and grass ir green. "Snow is white" is indeed true if and only if grass is green [if the biconditional is read...
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Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings

Michael J. Loux - 2001 - 582 Seiten
...conditions give meanings less problematically here than in mathematics and elsewhere for another reason too. For a sentence's truth conditions to give its meaning,...white" is indeed true if and only if grass is green. But that, of course, is just a coincidence. Even if grass were not green, "Snow is white" would still...
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Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings

Michael J. Loux - 2001 - 572 Seiten
...conditions give meanings less problematically here than in mathematics and elsewhere for another reason too. For a sentence's truth conditions to give its meaning,...so far as truth conditions go, the English sentence 306 "Snow is white" could just as well mean that grass is green, since "Snow is white" is true and...
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