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Lecture V
truth-functional conception through which in our daily lives, we often in-
terpret the commercial, religious, sentimental or political discourse which
we are addressed. I have tried to make you feel that the claim made by a dis-
course to be describing things is a snare which we must perpetually be wary
of, not because it can be mistaken or dishonest but because it does not ful-
fil even the basic conditions allowing one to hope it is true. Were five lec-
tures necessary to reach that altogether banal conclusion, and even without
being able to really show it is true? The only excuse I can put forward is the
importance and the difficulty of putting it into practice.
truth-functional conception through which in our daily lives, we often in-
terpret the commercial, religious, sentimental or political discourse which
we are addressed. I have tried to make you feel that the claim made by a dis-
course to be describing things is a snare which we must perpetually be wary
of, not because it can be mistaken or dishonest but because it does not ful-
fil even the basic conditions allowing one to hope it is true. Were five lec-
tures necessary to reach that altogether banal conclusion, and even without
being able to really show it is true? The only excuse I can put forward is the
importance and the difficulty of putting it into practice.
