I have been trying to simplify it. — guptanishank
we need to be able to talk about objects that we can observe. So we need to give objects some properties, like length, breadth and height etc. But, first they must have a common property for comparison. So we try and give them the property of truth first. — guptanishank
So we need to give objects some properties, like length, breadth and height etc. — guptanishank
Exactly, statements are what true and false.
Any object that you can observe, can be described by statements completely, by making an innumerable number of them about the object, with respect to all other objects and you.
Agree?
I agree that existence is first, but an object is true if it exists, it exists if it is true. — guptanishank
It's like giving names to abstract quantities. You might say you discovered the abstract quantity, but you did name it length first. — guptanishank
1) A statement being true, could come from description of an observation (existence), or it could come from deduction. It's not that existence is the only criteria for truth.
2) False statements about observations cannot exist. You can only observe true statements, and then take their converse or complement to get false statements. (not this statement is true) — guptanishank
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