PhD certainly does stand for Piled Higher and Deeper, at least in this case:
It is obvious that truth in general depends on both language and extra-linguistic fact. The statement 'Brutus killed Caesar' would be false if the world had been different in certain ways, but it would also be false if the word 'killed' happened rather to have the sense of 'begat'. Thus one is tempted to suppose in general that the truth of a statement is somehow analyzable into a linguistic component and a factual component.....
NO! It is not obvious. This is nothing more than nattering on for the sake of hearing oneself talk. There is absolutely no meaning to any of it. It is a null set!
"Brutus killed Caesar." But what if Brutus means Caesar and Caesar means Brutus? And what if Brutus means polyhedron? And what if Caesar means incomprehensibility?
This is crap piled on crap. Sometimes a word is just a goddammed word. In fact a word is ALWAYS a word. All of this junk is nothing more than pseudo-intellectualism run amok.
