Hi Stephen P. King That's what Peirce gave as a pragmatic definition of truth, something that we would all agree to, given time enough.
But fiction can be true (as "true fiction", a narrative woven about actual events) or not be true. Arithmetic isn't, it's either always true or always false. Roger Clough, [email protected] 9/24/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-22, 16:10:38 Subject: Re: Prime Numbers On 9/22/2012 7:32 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > How could mathematics be fiction ? > If so, then we could simply say that 2+2=5 because it's saturday. How could we have a world we many minds can, on rare occasions, come to complete agreement if that where the case? Perhaps it is true that 2+2=4 because we all agree, at some level, that it is true. (I am not just considering humans here with the word "we"!) -- Onward! Stephen http://webpages.charter.net/stephenk1/Outlaw/Outlaw.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
