What Is Truth and Why Does it Matter?: "The thing that is either true or false is not a sentence, but a proposition."

This idea is great: a proposition, whether spoken or written, is (or at least can be) a truth-bearing proposition. If scripture is God-breathed--"what more can he say than he hath already said?" God's word (whether logos or rhema) bears truth. Very cool.

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Words connect us with the outer world. If I wish to tell someone about a chair, they must know the word by which I refer to the external object. If they do not know the word, they cannot recieve the thought--no communication has occured. Names stand between us and objects. If you move away names and words, we cannot connect to external reality, and we cannot communicate about anything. Words are the conduits of thought, and they must be 'public' as Walter proposed. Words as raw materials must start in the place of meaning-agreement before they can be assembled into propositions that express a thought from one mind to another.

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To be 'true' is to be 'real.' If there is no absolute truth, there is no absolute reality. If there is no reality, all is lost. (like this train of thought).

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At bottom of the postmodern system, 'truth' depends on man.

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To assign a meaning to a text that was not the author's is to steal their intellectual property and use it for your own good. "Thou shalt not steal." It belongs to the author. Either accept his meaning, or write your own text. There is no other option.