• litewave
    801
    They can be translated from one to the other, and with enough imagination, probably to an equal degree. Which means that you have to explain why you posit subject-predicate as the structuration of the world, if it happens that non-finites clauses are just a co-extent with reality as finite ones. As of now the move seems arbitrary.Akanthinos

    As I said, non-finite clauses have a subject-predicate structure too, just not explicit.
  • Terrapin Station
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    But what are facts if not objective truths?litewave

    States of affairs. (Dynamic) ways the world is.
  • litewave
    801
    States of affairs. (Dynamic) ways the world is.Terrapin Station

    If it is a fact that the world is a certain way, then I would say that it is objectively true that the world is that way. This seems to be the usual concept of objective truth.
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