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What an odd question. The immigrants who speak English and are prepared to go to nursing school come in legally.

Link, sort of. You seemed to be suggesting that they're the same. Happy New Year, ssu.

You're just blowing smoke. ISIS and al qaeda arent the same thing. Grouping them together is either ignorant or racist.

I'm depressed, not like that's an excuse. :smile:

Al Qaeda and ISIS aren't even allied, much less the same thing. Less racism, please.

Imagine a long list of beautiful images of American Latinos that I can't post because this forum is crap.

Latinos are the largest minority in the US. We have a very long and happy tradition of absorbing Latinos. At present, Central America is disintegratin...

Quine continued to deny Kripke's contextless essentials. Kripke saw Quine as defying common sense. Surely Nixon couldn't have been a month of the year...

I thought you were confident earlier that Nixon could have been a golf ball. What persuades you otherwise?

What's known a priori is that if the table is made of wood, then it's wood necessarily. You have to look at the table to tell what it's made of.

Well, it's not meant to be a catalog of different kinds of essentials. The thesis is that some properties are essential without special bias (context)...

It's by noting context that we gather connotations.

The answer is that Kripke does not claim that we can't fix a reference by some contingent property. In such a case, just as Quine points out, this pro...

In thus snippet, Kripke isnt talking about a kind, nor a proper name whose meaning emerged from a chain of events. This is a particular lectern. Surel...

As long as it doesn't involve bloodshed. Maybe a cell at Guantanamo.

Kripke on the necessary a posteriori: "This looks like wood. It does not feel cold and it probably would if it were made of ice. Here my entire judgem...

It's Rome's legacy. Speaking of which, you have to read The History of Money by Jack Weatherford. He explains Rome from beginning to end from the pers...

The Jesus narrative took hold in a world that became Neoplatonic. Christianity as we know it emerged from that stew. You're wanting to give early Chri...

Look back in the preface. Should be on page 19. Also, look back at your Katworld example. Do you notice that it points toward internalism?

Yes, tomorrow. I have to go to sleep. Thanks for the discussion!

That we're not inside the actual world? The actual world is like a history book. Napoleon isn't really in there.

I appreciated it very much.

No. Not as Kripke uses the terminology.

The actual world is an abstract object like possible worlds.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Kripke thought of the actual world as a member of the set of all possible worlds, right? If you're wanting to say ...

Depends on what world you're in. I'm not going to pursue showing you that you agree with Searle, although I think you do. I want to get to the Puzzle ...

That cats are animals.

Yes.

Maybe. They might also conclude that an animal can have machine parts. Depends. I can imagine a world where that happens.

They might have started cutting up more cats to see if they're all full of machine parts.

:sad:

Yet it has something to do with a cat's essential properties?

Are we analyzing sentences spoken within possible worlds? Or with respect to possible worlds? Which did Kripke mean?

I explained above why he's wrong.

Is that what Kripke meant?

We analyze sentences with respect to possible worlds. A true sentence which is indexed to the actual world is true with respect to every possible worl...

Look back at the section on indexicals. We aren't analyzing sentences spoken within possible worlds. We're analyzing sentences with respect to possibl...

Indexed to actuality, it's necessarily one person. Janus is talking about a situation where it's implied that we mean actually.

As with the meter stick, it's 'as-I-am-using-the-word-right-now,' so it's not obvious why what you're saying conflicts with Kripke or that it even doe...

Some scholar whose name I cant remember said Platonic philosophy should be thought of as being like the science of the era. So it was similar to the w...

OK then. Happy New Year, S.

I can't. It burns my brain.

Is he? He has turtle DNA, so that may cause some greenish secretions.

It's not a settled issue. I'd argue Searle's view does work, don't want to derail, though.

You're right. That's Searle, not Kripke: "Any definite description at all can be treated as a rigid designator by indexing it to the actual world. I c...

Mitch McConnell is an honorable man as far as I can tell. Obama was. Trump is obviously not. But what is accomplished by becoming a perfect reflection...

The reference of a rigid designator can be fixed by a description giving a contingent property of its bearer. That's what's going on with the meter st...

Yes. I'm a liberal who realizes the President is a clown. My first thought about the OP was: "Don't you realize you're exactly the same as the Obama b...

A description can be a rigid designator, right? The man who won the election can be a rigid designator. There's a joke among biblical scholars about w...

Could you say more about "clouded other philosophical issues"?