{"id":11588,"date":"2010-05-21T14:03:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T14:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/21\/the-ambiguity-of-verify\/"},"modified":"2010-05-21T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T14:03:48","slug":"the-ambiguity-of-verify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/21\/the-ambiguity-of-verify\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ambiguity of &#8216;Verify&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">There are sentences the uttering of which falsifies them, and sentences the uttering of which verifies them. An example of the former is &#39;I am not talking now.&#39; The act of uttering this sentence falsifies it. By contrast, the act of uttering &#39;I am talking now&#39; verifies it.&#0160; If to falsify is to make false, then to verify is to make true.<\/p>\n<p>But &#39;verify&#39; (from L. <em>veritas<\/em>, truth) is ambiguous, and clarity will be served if we distinguish its two senses, one epistemological, the other ontological.<\/p>\n<p>In the epistemological sense, to verify a claim is to ascertain whether or not it is true. In its ontological sense, to verify is to make true. My saying &#39;I am now talking&#39; makes true the proposition expressed by the sentence; it is not part of any ascertaining of the truth of the proposition expressed. The utterance-event is the truth-maker of the proposition in question. It is the ontic ground of the proposition&#39;s truth.&#0160; There is, therefore, a clear sense in which the truthmaker of a truthbearer is its verifier.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are sentences the uttering of which falsifies them, and sentences the uttering of which verifies them. An example of the former is &#39;I am not talking now.&#39; The act of uttering this sentence falsifies it. By contrast, the act of uttering &#39;I am talking now&#39; verifies it.&#0160; If to falsify is to make false, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/21\/the-ambiguity-of-verify\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ambiguity of &#8216;Verify&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}