PHIL 105 Chapter 2: Philosophy Chapter 2
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Interrogative: asking questions, sometimes these aren"t intended to actually be a question, these are rhetorical questions, can be rewritten as declarative sentences. Declarative: giving commands, declaring something, these can be true or false, usually using these sentences to give arguments, used to express the premises and conclusions of an argument, truth. Only true when it corresponds to the facts. A declarative sentence is true just in case it corresponds to the facts as they actually are. A declarative sentence is false just in case it fails to correspond to the facts as they actually are. : do not say that something is true for someone just because you disagree about the actual truth, sentence tokens. Context is important: sentence types, propositions. The patterns followed by the token, they are kinds or types, of sentences: only can be true or false, not both or neither (one truth value principle, otv) Don"t necessarily know whether it is true or false.