{"id":1967,"date":"2009-12-10T23:25:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T22:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2009-12-10T23:25:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T22:25:23","slug":"interpretation-of-%e2%80%9calways%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2009\/12\/interpretation-of-%e2%80%9calways%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpretation of \u201calways\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } -->Some<em>times<\/em> it is clear that \u201calways\u201d should be interpreted as various temporal logics suggest. Other <em>times<\/em> it should not be interpreted as anything that has to do with time.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this fictive conversation:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 1.25cm;\">\u201cGenerally women prefer men with high social above men without.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 1.25cm;\">\u201cNot always.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the first utterance has nothing to do with time. When \u201cnot always\u201d is uttered in such contexts it means the same as the phrase \u201cnot in all cases [\u00ac(\u2200x)(Fx)\/(\u2203x)(\u00acFx)]\u201d. Similarly with other temporal words such as \u201coften\u201d (in many cases) and \u201cnever\u201d (\u00ac(\u2203x)(Fx)\/(\u2200x)(\u00acFx)).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it is clear that \u201calways\u201d should be interpreted as various temporal logics suggest. Other times it should not be interpreted as anything that has to do with time. Consider this fictive conversation: \u201cGenerally women prefer men with high social above men without.\u201d \u201cNot always.\u201d But the first utterance has nothing to do with time. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[84,589,1500,1502,1501],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-always","tag-interpretation","tag-interpretation-logic-philosophy-philosophy","tag-never","tag-sometimes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}