Vacuously True Statements

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“Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.”
—J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)

“If we do take statements to be the primary bearers of truth, there seems to be a very simple answer to the question, what is it for them to be true: for a statement to be true is for things to be as they are stated to be.”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)