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Re: [jboske] factivity of nu



Invent Yourself scripsit:

> In terms of the 2 cases being fictional worlds about which I might read, I
> see a difference. I can imagine the chocolate but not the 4 = 5. This is
> something that con men and fiction authors should keep in mind, so they
> can craft realistic works. But in terms of reality, both cases are
> provably false; 0 in the boolean sense.

Granted.  But President McGovern 1972-76 is a world you can reason about
usefully, whereas the world where "true" and "false" have the same referent
isn't.

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