Editing Ontology:Q530 (section)

=== Truth value examples ===

* <i>On earth, acceleration due to gravity is always the same and equal to about 9.8 meters per second per second.</i> Truth value: <b>True.</b>
* <i>Assuming that the definition of death includes cardiac arrest, people cannot come back to life.</i> Truth value: <b>False.</b>
* <i>Fiction teaches people life lessons.</i> Truth value: <b>Sometimes true; occurrence is possible.</b>
* <i>Black people in the United States experience structural racism.</i> Truth value: <b>Occurrence is possible.</b>
* <i>W.E. DuBois experienced structural racism.</i> Truth value: <b>False.</b>
* <i>Trotskyists will never believe in mainstream Marxism-Leninism.</i> Truth value: <b>True of some individuals of a category, false of others.</b>
* <i>Hypothetical person Alice exists. Alice is a trans woman.</i> Truth value: <b>True-false superposition until speaking to individual; unknown.</b>
* <i>The United States will eventually become a workers' state.</i> Truth value: <b>Epistemically possible; unknown.</b>
* <i>The United States became a workers' state in 1947.</i> Truth values: <b>Counterfactual statement.</b> / <b>False.</b>
* <i>Alex is non-binary. Alex is male or female.</i> Truth values: <b>Category error.</b> / <b>False.</b>
* <i>Stalin's Marxism is not Leninism.</i> Truth value: <b>Depends entirely on word definitions; metaphysical statement.</b>
* <i>Colonialism is in our minds.</i> Truth value: <b>Misleading.</b> / <b>Metaphysical statement.</b> / <b>Non-Materialist or non-predictive statement.</b> / <b>False practically.</b>
* <i>Green is the color of sorrow.</i> Truth value: <b>Signifier assignment.</b> / <b>Subjective.</b>
* <i>The United States is a powder keg.</i> Truth value: <b>Analogy.</b> / <b>Observation.</b> / <b>True in some locations; occurrence is possible.</b>
* <i>Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.</i> Truth value: <b>Contains no information.</b> / <b>Metaphysical statement.</b>
* <i>Firestar left his human owners to join ThunderClan.</i> Truth value: <b>True about fictional narrative.</b> / <b>Counterfactual statement.</b> / <b>True.</b>
* <i>Sans is Ness.</i> Truth value: <b>Unsubstantiated statement about fictional narrative.</b> / <b>Unfalsifiable.</b>
* <i>I live in the real world. There is a dragon in my garage.</i> Truth value: <b>Unfalsifiable.</b> / <b>False practically.</b>
* <i>I live on planet Pern. There is a dragon in my shed.</i> Truth value: <b>Reasonable prediction about fictional narrative.</b> / <b>Epistemically possible.</b>
* <i>Twilight Sparkle is an animated kids' show protagonist. Twilight Sparkle has free will.</i> Truth value: <b>Depends on the truth value of historical materialism.</b> / <b>Depends on the truth value of free will.</b> / <b>Depends on whether stories are treated the same as real history.</b> / <b>Depends on truth value of other propositions.</b>
* <i>There exists a worldwide god.</i> Truth value: <b>Subjectively true under [[E:Sunny fallacy|Sunny fallacy]]; not objectively true.</b>
* <i>Capitalism is the best system.</i> Truth value: <b>Depends on the truth value of whether people in other countries are people.</b> / <b>[[E:Sunny fallacy|Not objectively true]].</b>


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