DuncanS comments on The Useful Idea of Truth - Less Wrong
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It's easy to overcome that simply by being a bit more precise - you are saying that such and such a proposition is true in geometry X. Meaning that the axioms of geometry X genuinely do imply the proposition. That this proposition may not be true in geometry Y has nothing to do with it.
It is a different sense of true in that it isn't necessarily related to sensory experience - only to the interrelationships of ideas.