lecture 2 Flashcards
what are the three types of sentences?
- Interrogative: questions
- Imperative: commands
3 Declarative: statements
what makes the claim about the world?
Declarative sentences
which of the sentences can be true or false?
declarative sentence
Give me an example of interrogative sentence?
How was school today?
Give me an example of imperative sentence?
Go clean your room!!
Give me an example of Declarative sentences?
The sky is blue
what does it mean for a sentence to be true?
Basic Corespodence principle:
A sentence is true:
=things are really that way
= it corresponds to the world.
Example of the BCP
Snow is white because its true
Why avoid phrases like “true for me” and “true for you”
What we believe or what we assert with a claim is true when it corresponds to the way the world is.
what is a sentence?
it is a string of words
What is a proposition?
specific thoughts or idea that a sentence expresses
REMEMBER: sentences express propositions
give an example of what are the two sentences that express the same proposition?
- The sun rises in the east
- in the east, the sun rises
what are the refining correspodence princples
A proposition is true = it describes things as they actually are
A proposition is false = it does not describe things as they actually are
