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I elicit a list of interpretants among which there is certainly flower. I do not understand why instead of saying "if rose then flower" you say "if it is true that x is a rose then it is true that x is a flower." Once again, I am afraid that by "true" you mean three different problems. True1 is what is recorded in the encyclopedia. Obviously, if the encyclopedia records that a rose is a flower, it is True1 that if something is a rose then it is a flower. But I do not need True1: I say that in E.15 a rose is a flower. If I receive rose, then I answer flower.
Smith: Could you explain such a connection without the notion of Truth?
CSP: I could do it in terms of conditioned reflex. If my master A hits the knee of my master B with a little hammer, master B kicks. It does happen.
Smith: It is true that if A hits B then B kicks.
CSP: It happens, but there are also cases in which B is sick and does not kick. In E.15, it is recorded that in such cases standard Antipodeans kick. But this does not happen by virtue of my instructions in E.15. If an individual kicks, this is factually True2. But the information that average Antipodeans kick in similar situations is only True1; it is recorded in E.15 as ££. Likewise, if you type in rose, then I list a series of properties, frames, and other instructions. I cannot do otherwise. You wonder why I refrain from speaking in terms of Truth. I'll tell you why. Even if my masters used Truth only in the sense of True1, I would be embarrassed, because in terms of truth it is different to say that elephants are animals and that elephants are grey. Unfortunately, my masters use True also in the sense of True2. To complicate this mishmash even further, please consider that something can also be True3, that is, textually true. Something is textually true when I take it for granted in the course of a communicational interaction. In this case, I score it as %%%not as a piece of definite information to be inserted into an encyclopedia, but only as provisional information that holds until I have finished processing a given text. I use %%% in my data files, not in my program files. Do you understand the difference?
Smith: I understand that, if you read in a text that once upon a time there was a one-legged man called Long John Silver, you take him as existent in a fictional world. . . .
CSP: Or ££, according to the encyclopedia of that possible world. You are right, but this is not sufficient. My point is different. I am also speaking of many cases in which I am not interested at all in knowing whether some individuals or things exist or not. I am speaking of cases in which I put into brackets any form of existence in any possible

 
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