PHILOS 2CT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Principle Of Bivalence
4 Mar 2018
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Claim = a statement asserting a position on some matter: e. g. It"s cold out; politicians are incapable of uttering the truth; my brother is a buffoon; etc. Simple claims = one subject-predicate statement that can"t be further divided: subject = what a statement is about, predicate = something being affirmed or denied about a subject. Complex claims = composed of two or more statements logically connected: e. g. Because it is winter, it is likely cold outside; since political speech is intentionally ambiguous, politicians are incapable of uttering the truth; my brother keeps sending me ridiculous text messages, he is such a buffoon, etc. Because claims are statements asserting something (viz. the predicate) about something (viz. the subject) they have truth value. Truth conditions = the content of claims and the connections between them that construct the basis on which we judge statements to be true or false: e. g.
