From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:06 AM To: alt.atheism.moderated Subject: Re: finite number of sentences Jim Humphries wrote: > > [..] "This frame has the shape of a square circle." is indeed > > > falsifiable both logically and empirically. > > > "square circle" fails to refer, and hence is meaningless I was speaking in the sense in which the statement is equivalent to "this frame has the shape of a square and this frame has the shape of a circle", which is indeed falsifiable both logically and empirically. But I agree that the statement is logically contradictory and thus meaningless. -- brian@holtz.org http://humanknowledge.net