Mathematicians who buy into this fantasy are called "Platonists," since their mathematical heaven resembles the realm of the Good and the True described in Plato's "Republic".
If McFetridge is right that all of this can be expressed without appealing to the existence of facts then we can explain why sentences are true, describe what makes them true, without mention of the truth-makers that Hochberg, Armstrong et al. demand.
By Eric Schlosser January 18 , 2014In his post "Almost Everything in 'Dr. Strangelove' Was True," Eric Schlosser describes how closely the events in Stanley Kubrick's movie mirrored what could have actually happened to America's nuclear arsenal.
_In his post "Almost Everything in 'Dr. Strangelove' Was True," Eric Schlosser describes how closely the events in Stanley Kubrick's movie mirrored what could have actually happened to America's nuclear arsenal.
Over a tight groove punctuated by horns in opener "Dreams Come True," Flowers describes being tantalized as a kid by "promises and visions of a country unseen".
In analogy, TN (true negatives) describes correctly predicted neutral pairs (no change) and FN (false negatives) are structure-changing pairs incorrectly predicted as being neutral.
This is especially true for describing the safety aspects of certain therapeutics, but can also be true for deliberations with regard to efficacy.
