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This, I think, gets at why I don't want to acknowledge "true" and "false", because it seems to me the only way to salvage those terms is to make them teleological to the purpose of likelihood of matching experiences of reality. I guess this is fine but it's not really what most people mean when they say "true" and "false" as far as I can tell, so it seems better to reject the notions of "true" and "false" to avoid confusion about what we're discussing.
This is at least very close to what I meant. Consider this situation: you are walking along, and you see a man in the distance. "That looks like a pretty tall fellow," you say. When he approaches you, you can see how tall he is. Was your statement true or false? It is obvious that "pretty tall fe... (read more)