potato comments on No Logical Positivist I - Less Wrong

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Comment author: potato 23 July 2012 12:42:43AM 1 point [-]

Yes, the point I was trying to make was that for a sentence to be meaningful, there must be a physical state for which it encodes, even if that physical state is in-accessible to us. "At 8:00 pm last night a tea kettle spontaneously formed around Saturn." is meaningful, because it encodes a state located in space-time.