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eternal sentence


Subject Philosophy

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405106795.2004.x


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L ogic A sentence whose truth or falsity is fixed once and for all, without regard to the passage of time, the varying of circumstances, and the speaker. If it is true, it is true forever; if it is false, it is false forever. Examples of this sort of sentence include laws of mathematics, of logic, and of nature, as well as reports of passing events. A proposition is said to be the meaning of a sentence, but, strictly speaking, it is the cognitive meaning of an eternal sentence. “By incorporating additional information into the sentence such as dates and the names of persons and places, we can obtain an eternal sentence: one that is fixedly true or false.” Quine, Ontological Relativity and Other Essays ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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