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More important are such pretentious but meaningless utterances as: "It is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the Hobbesian war of all against all rolled into one".
Positivism then is for Anderson a commitment to what is objectively and positively the case, and not a program of instrumental or operational truth, nor a means of distinguishing meaningful from meaningless utterances.
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If not, is there, after all, any real difference between meaningful utterances and meaningless noises?
All of these questions presuppose that there are facts of the matter about what our words mean, or at least a difference between meaningful utterances and meaningless noises.
They echo what is said as if each utterance were simply a meaningless sonic event.
One might well think that the game formalist should treat mathematical utterances, on that view just strings of meaningless marks, as unsinnig, not just sinnlos.
A purely referential account of meaning, according to which the meaning of a natural kind term is nothing other than its bearer, would predict that the first of these utterances is trivial, the second and third meaningless,[18] and that the fourth attributes inconsistent beliefs to Fred.
This apparent flip-flop is a serious breach of trust, according to Tyler, who says he can only conclude that "every utterance on the campaign trail was utterly meaningless from Donald Trump".
Flew argued that theological utterances about God's nature, presence, power, or goodness are meaningless because there is no conceivable evidence that would refute them.
And in their utterances.
Meaningless twaddle?
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