Hi Stephen P. King Good point about necessary and known , but if you follow donaldson, context should be torn out of the heart of any true proposition. Context-sensitive is almost a definition of contingency.
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 12/17/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-17, 11:50:05 Subject: Re: What is truth ? Take your pick. On 12/17/2012 11:31 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > I may have to disagree with you, possibly because > no one arithmetic statement is the whole truth. > And comp needs a whole set of equations, > no one of which is the whole truth. > But I think that EVERYTHING comes from the One, > even untruth. Necessary truth is just a subset I think. > So is contingent truth. Dear Roger, I see the ONE as a superposition of Nothing and Everything... The Many is the classical case. /evil grin Necessary truths are the only kind that can be known, they are conditional to context. Absence the specifiably of context even properties vanish and truths with them. -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.