Here’s my problem. I thought we were looking for a way to categorize meaningful statements. I thought we had agreed that a meaningful statement must be interpretable as or consistent with at least one DAG. But now it seems that there are ways the world can be which can not be interpreted even one DAG because they require a directed cycle. SO have we now decided that a meaningful sentence must be interpretable as a directed, cyclic or acyclic, graph?
In general, if I say all and only statements that satisfy P are meaningful, then any statement that doesn’t satisfy P must be meaningless, and all meaningless statements should be unobservable, and therefor a statement like “all and only statements that satisfy P are meaningful” should be unfalsifiable.
Here’s my problem. I thought we were looking for a way to categorize meaningful statements. I thought we had agreed that a meaningful statement must be interpretable as or consistent with at least one DAG. But now it seems that there are ways the world can be which can not be interpreted even one DAG because they require a directed cycle. SO have we now decided that a meaningful sentence must be interpretable as a directed, cyclic or acyclic, graph?
In general, if I say all and only statements that satisfy P are meaningful, then any statement that doesn’t satisfy P must be meaningless, and all meaningless statements should be unobservable, and therefor a statement like “all and only statements that satisfy P are meaningful” should be unfalsifiable.