Re: The philosophy of computation reformulates existing ideas on a new basis ---

On 2024-11-06 14:03:58 +0000, Andy Walker said:

On 05/11/2024 09:46, Mikko wrote:
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But your comment about "distiction" is clearly false. My comment was
about statments but yours was about those how make mistakes and
those who wilfully mislead. A sentence does not make mistakes and
does not wilfully do anything.

  Indeed.  So until it gains context it /cannot/ [in British English,
I claim no specific expertise in other dialects] be a lie.  It /can/ be
more-or-less unconditionally false [eg in the "usually obvious" meaning],
but that is not enough.  IOW, your initial claim [that "there is no clear
advantage in saying that the statement was not a lie until someone stated
it"] is, IMO, incorrect;  the advantage is correct use of English, and in
particular avoiding insults until the context becomes clear.  [I think I've
made my point enough;  I don't propose to continue this thread if you or
others wish to have the final say.]

I don't think it is a good use of language to regard actions of people
as attributes of a sentence. What a sentence is and what people do are
two distinct topics.
--
Mikko