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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 23 September 2011 08:44:12AM 0 points [-]

So instead we restrict the ontology to syntactic systems devoid of any semantics; the statement ""Foo" is true" is meaningless.

If reality is "devoid of semantics", then all statements are meaningless.

Comment author: ec429 23 September 2011 05:26:48PM *  2 points [-]

Statements have no meaning inherent in themselves. That doesn't stop us ascribing semantics to things, we just have to stop believing that "P∧(P=>Q) ⊦ Q" has a little XML tag saying "true" stuck to it out there in Plato-space.

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