Frankfurt
No Clemensy
In these dog days, when the humidity is so oppressive that even I can see how a baseball season might seem endless, at least to a catcher, I find my mind wandering, frequently to Prof. Frankfurt’s On Truth. It reassures me that true can be distinguished from false, and that it matters.
One of the following three statements cannot be true: (1) Princeton’s annual net revenue from tuition is less than $68,000,000. (2) For the last 15 years it has not been possible to eliminate tuition because the revenue derived from tuition payments is essential to the university’s mission. (3) Now, within two years, Princeton will cut $170,000,000 (far more than net tuition revenue) from its operating expenses without impairing the mission. It is of course the middle statement (#2) that is, and for 15 years has been, false.
Isn’t that right, Roger?
In these dog days, when the humidity is so oppressive that even I can see how a baseball season might seem endless, at least to a catcher, I find my mind wandering, frequently to Prof. Frankfurt’s On Truth. It reassures me that true can be distinguished from false, and that it matters.
One of the following three statements cannot be true: (1) Princeton’s annual net revenue from tuition is less than $68,000,000. (2) For the last 15 years it has not been possible to eliminate tuition because the revenue derived from tuition payments is essential to the university’s mission. (3) Now, within two years, Princeton will cut $170,000,000 (far more than net tuition revenue) from its operating expenses without impairing the mission. It is of course the middle statement (#2) that is, and for 15 years has been, false.
Isn’t that right, Roger?
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