"Are all bachelors married?" vs "is it raining outside?"
And then Quine points out that the definitions of "bachelor" and "married" are themselves contingent on outside factors.
"Can illegal immigrants vote?", while close to being an analytic proposition, still depends on an empirical approach that can never be mediated by text, video, etc. All propositions are by necessity experiential. Nullius in verba!
So the truth is and has always been what happens when you get off your butt and go out and test the world.
This is not to say that we don't benefit from language. It makes for a great recipe. If you follow the instructions to bake a cake and you get what you expected you know that the recipe was true. The same goes for the laws of science, search engine results, and generative AI.
And then Quine points out that the definitions of "bachelor" and "married" are themselves contingent on outside factors.
"Can illegal immigrants vote?", while close to being an analytic proposition, still depends on an empirical approach that can never be mediated by text, video, etc. All propositions are by necessity experiential. Nullius in verba!
So the truth is and has always been what happens when you get off your butt and go out and test the world.
This is not to say that we don't benefit from language. It makes for a great recipe. If you follow the instructions to bake a cake and you get what you expected you know that the recipe was true. The same goes for the laws of science, search engine results, and generative AI.