the omnipotent being can check any part of the source code of the universe.
You cannot simply check the source code. No matter how many experiments you run, there will always be room for the possibility that the source code is such that the spaceship disappears.
Yes, the point I was trying to make was that for a sentence to be meaningful, there must be a physical state for which it encodes, even if that physical state is in-accessible to us. βAt 8:00 pm last night a tea kettle spontaneously formed around Saturn.β is meaningful, because it encodes a state located in space-time.
You cannot simply check the source code. No matter how many experiments you run, there will always be room for the possibility that the source code is such that the spaceship disappears.
Yes, the point I was trying to make was that for a sentence to be meaningful, there must be a physical state for which it encodes, even if that physical state is in-accessible to us. βAt 8:00 pm last night a tea kettle spontaneously formed around Saturn.β is meaningful, because it encodes a state located in space-time.