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minus-squarePhoenix3875@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoWell, it depends on your definition of truth and it could be the absolute truth by definition. A theorem is absolutely true in the same way that “a bachelor is an unmarried man” is categorically true.
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year ago“This line on the map is perpendicular to this other line on the map” is not a statement about the territory.
Well, it depends on your definition of truth and it could be the absolute truth by definition. A theorem is absolutely true in the same way that “a bachelor is an unmarried man” is categorically true.
“This line on the map is perpendicular to this other line on the map” is not a statement about the territory.