From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:10:44 GMT

In article <846296702snz@longley.demon.co.uk>,
David Longley  wrote:
>In article <54qqdj$re9@ux.cs.niu.edu> rickert@cs.niu.edu "Neil Rickert" writes:
>
>> In <846241304snz@longley.demon.co.uk> David@longley.demon.co.uk (David Longley)
>>  writes:
>> 
>> >All of these discussions are, at root, a fundamental disagreement 
>> >on  the  nature  of "meanings" and whether  one  *can*  say  that 
>> >two statements "*mean* the same thing".
>> 
>> Of course we can say that two statements "mean the same thing."
>> People often say this sort of thing.  And if people do say this,
>> clearly one can say this.  The mistake would be to confuse "mean the
>> same thing" with logical identity.
>> 
>> 
>No.....the confusion is in believing that in *saying*  something, 
>one is saying something which is true.

Saying something like, um, "This is all false"?

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