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Does a proposition which is always false such as 'one plus one equals seven' have false truth conditions or no truth conditions?
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August 9, 2012

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Stephen Maitzen
August 9, 2012 (changed August 9, 2012) Permalink

I can't see how it could have no truth conditions if it's always false: if it's always false, mustn't it have truth conditions of a particular kind, namely, truth conditions that are never fulfilled? I wouldn't call those "false truth conditions," however; I'd call them unfulfilled truth conditions or, in the case of "One plus one equals seven," unfulfillable truth conditions.

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