From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 10:17 AM To: alt.atheism.moderated Subject: Re: Are irrational numbers supernatural? Jim Humphries wrote: > ( in the words > of the article): "an analytic statement is one which is true or false > purely in virtue of the meanings of the words used to make it and > the grammatical rules governing their combination" You quote me quoting this to you, and then you quote it back to me. LOL. > your claim [..] decidedly can *not* be said to be true on > account of the meaning of the words used to make it Yes it can, because this is part of the way that I choose to define the word 'meaningless'. > we cannot guarantee that "If a synthetic statement > is neither verifiable nor falsifiable, " that it is propositionally > meaningless". I most certainly can guarantee that for every synthetic statement that is neither verifiable nor falsifiable, I will apply to it the phrase 'propositionally meaningless'. QED. -- brian@holtz.org http://humanknowledge.net