Statements: The Basics from a Logician’s View
Philosophers , concerned most acutely with gaining wisdom and knowledge, use logic to discern the truth or falsity of propositions in order to form justified, true beliefs. This often requires a diligent, studious approach to abstruse written or verbal statements. Since philosophical language tends to be highly compressed, just a few words in a given statement often contain a lot of information. Consequently, deciphering the exact meaning of statements within a philosophical edifice is not optional. It is instead a sine qua non to prevent misunderstanding the implications and applications of an entire body of work. To develop a robust grounding in how philosophers approach interpreting philosophical statements, it would be highly useful in the first place to, of course, begin with understanding how philosophers conceive of statements themselves. For this purpose, it is critical to know, right at the outset, that statement in logic is a technical term that carries a meaning which is, ...