It argues that before modern brewers developed methods of indirect heat to roast their malt, all beers had a smokiness, so their porter is therefore true to the original flavors of the style.
Supposed proponents of reason argue that because most scientists support the idea of global warming, global warming is therefore true, and therefore any objection to global warming is not scientific.
In linguistic terms the referent of "the teacher of Alexander the Great" is different in different possible worlds, and the sentence "Aristotle was the teacher of Alexander the Great" is therefore true in some possible worlds and false in others (i.e., it is a contingent truth).
In linguistic terms, once the referent of Aristotle is fixed in the actual world (i.e., once Aristotle is applied to Aristotle), the name Aristotle must refer to Aristotle in every possible world in which it refers at all, and the sentence "Aristotle is Aristotle" is therefore true in every possible world (i.e., it is a necessary truth).
It is therefore true with respect to, say, Russell and myself that we ought to abolish the Death Penalty, since abolishing the Death Penalty is conducive to the ends that we happen to favor.
Russell thought that his theory of definite descriptions allowed him to show that all fictional names lacked denotation in this way, and that sentences containing fictional names were therefore true or false rather than meaningless.
ℜ may be regarded as an ordered field, and the same is therefore true of its inflate ℜˆ, since the latter has precisely the same first-order properties as ℜ.
When a proposition correctly characterizes a world story w, whether or not it is included in w, Adams says that the proposition is true at w. Every proposition that is true in w is therefore true at it as well; for if [a exists] is not true in w, then [a does not exist], and everything it entails, is true at w.
Only the eternal is therefore true.
