Zefram wrote: > The time that you typed the characters is not an appropriate context > in which to judge its truth value; it must be judged in the context > of it being a public message.
Wooble wrote: > "An interesting aspect of imperatives is that although they express > the will of the speaker, their truth or falsity depends on the will of > the addressee. [...] [By how he reacts to the imperative] he makes the > imperative to be true or false." In an extreme example of timeliness of truth values, the truth value of common public announcement with legal effects, "I Do", won't be known until years later, when we see if it really was "to death do us part". Keep that extreme example in mind when thinking of when the "moment of truth" should be assigned. -Goethe
