Hintikka s Theory of Truth
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Jonathan Zwi
Hintikka's rules C1-C9 are interesting in that they come with different acceptance values attached. That is none of them are intuitively acceptable, albeit some are easier to swallow than others. As a disclaimer, none of Hintikka's rules, I believe, are necessary only that some are possible.
C1
We already start with a rule that is a little bit difficult to interpret for it is difficult to pin down exactly what the notion of a belief is. If a belief is defined as an idea that an agent is fully aware of, then it would most often be the case that C1 hold. People don't go around asserting p ^ ~p. However there are instances in which this can be considered. Take for example the average physics student who has not wholeheartedly committed himself to the idea of light as a particle or as a wave. He knows that surely it has to be one or the other and he know that this disjunction is exclusive and that light cannot be both things. However, in his state of flux, in his half-commitment to both ideas, the person can be found to utter the statemtn "light is a partive and at the same time it is not" or "light is a wave and at the same time it is not...