PHL145H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rhetorical Question, Andrew Wiles, Appalachian Music
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In language, statements are sentences which express beliefs that we hold. So the following sentence is a statement: mira is a cat, that mira is a cat (2) expresses the content of my belief, were i to believe that (1) The content expressed by mira is a cat is complete, in the sense that it depicts an entire state of affairs. It could either be the case, or not be the case. We will call the complete contents of a belief a proposition. Some important features of propositions: they are the information contents of beliefs and statements, represent states of affairs, have a truth value: they are either true or false. The content of propositions are representations of states of affairs. We will say that a proposition is true just in case it correctly represents the way the world is, and false just incase it misrepresents how the world is.
