RobinZ comments on The Useful Idea of Truth - Less Wrong
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Meaningful seems like a odd word to choose, as it contains the answer itself. What rule restricts our beliefs to just propositions that can be meaningful? Why, we could ask ourselves if the proposition has meaning.
The "atoms" rule seems fine, if one takes out the word "atoms" and replaces it with "state of the universe," with the understanding that "state" includes both statics and dynamics. Thus, we could imagine a world where QM was not true, and other physics held sway- and the state of that world, including its dynamics, would be noticeably different than ours.
And, like daenerys, I think the statement that "Elaine is a post-utopian" can be meaningful, and the implied expanded version of it can be concordant with reality.
[edit] I also wrote my koan answers as I was going through the post, so here's 1:
And 2:
I very much like your response to (1) - I think the point about having access to a common universe makes it very clear.