| In a message dated 4/16/2001 2:47:37 PM Central Daylight Time,
jcowan@reutershealth.com writes: > How about mi na djuno la'e le jei ti drani. Whoa! If the true value (Truth) has a referent, then so has Falsehood. Now, whether either of them does or not is another question (the universe and the null set, 1 and 0, a tautology and a contradiction -- which one doesn't matter because of the {le}). The problem is that whatever the referent, if there is one, may be, it won't help knowing about whether something is true or not. If the claim is false, the referent -- assuming it is a claim at all -- will be a false one and so unknowable. If it is true, it is unlikely to be about le nu ti drani in any interesting way -- and is likely to be something that you know whatever the truth value of the original claim is. |