It’s means: a statement which is true in our universe, but is not a tautology.
I guess we need a one syllable word for “statement which increases one’s knowledge about the universe within which one exists”. Thus “statements which are [insert word here] restrict the set of universes one is in” would be a tautology.
Yeah, there are a few candidates—“informative”, “real”, etc.
The trouble is that we are smashing through the layman’s definition again. If we define “informative” as [insert word here], then we must also say that a calculus textbook is not at all informative.
See above discussion.
It’s means: a statement which is true in our universe, but is not a tautology.
Right, I was suggesting the word ‘informative’.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah, there are a few candidates—“informative”, “real”, etc.
The trouble is that we are smashing through the layman’s definition again. If we define “informative” as [insert word here], then we must also say that a calculus textbook is not at all informative.