I&#x27;ve always considered true and false to be properties of models, which are (necessarily) approximations of some underlying reality. So I&#x27;d say &quot;8 is larger than 5 <i>in some sense</i>&quot; and &quot;Sydney is larger than San Francisco <i>in some sense</i>&quot;, where we might admit that the senses differ, and maybe 8 &gt; 5 is &#x27;truer&#x27; because the senses in which it are true are more general and require fewer experiences to verify.<p>But at the end of the day, you don&#x27;t want to just say &quot;everything can be true if you stretch far enough&quot;, you want to say that things are true only when we&#x27;ve demonstrated some utility in saying that they&#x27;re true. So we just defer the issue: if you want to say something is true, you always need to know what difference it makes.