One of the ideas I've been playing with lately is the idea that many statements that appear to be about the universe are actually statements about the speaker.
If you say, "Kurosawa's THRONE OF BLOOD is the best filmed Shakespeare in existence," that is in fact a statement with a truth value - but it's a statement about YOU, not about the film. It says something about how that film - a real, physical object (or at least a real experience) affects you, a real physical person.
More relevant to my everday experience... if I say "She's beautiful," or, "He's a jackass," or "That's wonderful," those are statements about me. (Which among other things, helps me keep my cool when someone says something unpleasant about me - it's not saying anything about me at all; it simply says how I'm affecting that person. If I don't want to affect them that way, I may be able to do something else; if I don't mind affecting them that way, then I don't have to. But I have the information.)
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If you say, "Kurosawa's THRONE OF BLOOD is the best filmed Shakespeare in existence," that is in fact a statement with a truth value - but it's a statement about YOU, not about the film. It says something about how that film - a real, physical object (or at least a real experience) affects you, a real physical person.
More relevant to my everday experience... if I say "She's beautiful," or, "He's a jackass," or "That's wonderful," those are statements about me. (Which among other things, helps me keep my cool when someone says something unpleasant about me - it's not saying anything about me at all; it simply says how I'm affecting that person. If I don't want to affect them that way, I may be able to do something else; if I don't mind affecting them that way, then I don't have to. But I have the information.)