On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 1:48 PM, omd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> I strongly disagree with your reasoning here. The statement on a scrap of >> paper in Thailand is a different statement than the one I posted. I >> challenge this by initiating another CfJ using the following statement: >> >> Two instances of the same sentence in different contexts are different >> statements. > > Grat: They're two instances of the same statement. >
So the issue at the crux of the CFJ is that we have on belief that: Statement = sentence + context And another that: Statement = sentence I would argue that they are indeed two instances of the same statement, but due to the context of the statement it has different meaning. I don't think that the statement itself is different, but simply the meaning of the statement is.
