There are almost no just-plain-true (or false) facts in the macroscopic natural world. We’ve engineered our environment to support deductive reasoning, which doesn’t work in nature. Text from Elijah Millgram’s _Hard Truths_pic.twitter.com/e6HLMSjpb3
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The AIDS example is a good one though. AIDS is defined as “various diseases caused by HIV” and HIV is defined as “various viruses, not particularly closely related, that cause AIDS.” And “causes” is not really defined at all (which is a big problem in the philosophy of science).
The issue here is not word meanings, but things-in-the-world, i.e. the relationship between HIV and AIDS is just inherently messy—but quite certain.
I thought I understood what you were trying to say but then you said it's not just about word meanings, so I think I probably didn't get your point. Guess I'll wait for the book. Good luck with that!
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