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Comment by afiori

5 days ago

The requirement for a truth value is just from how math/logic uses the term.

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kragen  5 days ago

Well, and linguistics. A "statement" in the grammatical sense is a sentence that is declarative in form (as opposed to, in English, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory) and which thus ostensibly has a truth-value.

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