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Reference fixing could be ostensive. But some sort of fixing needs to happen.

Some of that is in the cyber realm these days. Have you ever been approached by a recruiter online?

Or kidnapped and held in an ugly part of London.

Banno suggested waiting till after the third lecture to discuss A Puzzle of Belief. I hope youre still around to help clarify. :grin:

I haven't been keeping up with events in Afghanistan. At one point ISIS was there. Violence all around.

The heroin problem is a side effect of the invasion of Afghanistan. It's terrible and it's everywhere.

You're strawmanning me.

I'm not accustomed to taking anything for granted in that department, maybe just a cultural difference between us. So my question didn't seem at all r...

Sure. I just thought Kripke's own challenge to the necessary a posteriori would help me flesh out the idea.

It's Kripke's argument, not mine. :razz:

Rigid designators are graspable without any descriptive content. There's a whole story about a French guy who is kidnapped and held in London. It make...

I'm trying to grasp the challenge to Kripke's necessary a posteriori brought by Kripke himself in A Problem of Belief: If Hesperus=Phosphorus is neces...

So this question should have been left to a body of elder statesmen. What is that in the UK?

So you favor totalitarianism? (Sorry about the kids. Hope they get well soon.)

Government organized healthcare smacks of socialism. It conflicts with the conservative's small government/survival-of-the-fittest attitude. Medicare ...

I don't quite understand. Is it that the EU needs a culture change to keep its members? Do the member states not trust one another? Would greater cent...

But the people who voted to remain are ok with that lack of self determination? Or are they unhappy about it, but leaving is just worse?

Why couldn't the UK have worked from within the EU to make the changes it wanted?

I'm ready to move on.

Wow. Would that be a watershed event if they revoked Article 50?

So what has to happen to have another referendum?

LOL. I brought up the same work earlier in this thread to make the same point. I think error and ignorance are the better arguments. You don't have to...

Or less. Obviously the Nixon who lost isn't our Nixon. That's the whole point of supposing.

I'm reading it. It's cool. True we all live under some propaganda. Some are born to play the good guy (what the culture wants to be) and others are do...

They should wait and let it play out for better or worse then. If it's detrimental, the next generation can vote to rejoin with tangible evidence. Bet...

It sounds like they borrowed the term from chemistry then.

But if they had a redo, would that undermine confidence in voting?

Why do they use the word "saturate"? Is it borrowed from oil painting?

Ok. Throw some egg shells in with it.

You need to clean your kitchen a little more frequently.

The only reason we accept the death note premise for even a moment is that we think it's bad guys being killed. So the monster has our sympathy until ...

The answer to the first question is that the audience has to understand what you're saying. The answer to the second? I think that's a matter of rule ...

You're getting moralistic about it. I was trying to understand it mechanically. Clinton's point was that the pattern is repeating in multiple places.

That's kind of saddening: that we respond to the burden of taking care of our neighbors by turning into rightwing populists. Or maybe it's just that r...

But then Luther also took it upon himself to start his own religion. Maybe an on-going attack creates a Godzilla-sized protector. Erickson wrote a boo...

Yes. It's just that an individual speaker can use the name without knowing. That's only possible because there are or have been others who knew. The n...

I meant: did Luther have scrupulosity?

Erik Erickson's book. Did he have it?

Will the British manage immigration differently after Brexit?

I'm referring to Aristotle by proxy. Somebody else has to know or have known. If I'm in error, it's with regard to the way the community uses "Aristot...

It's a simple question. Can parrots use words to refer?

Are you saying there are no rules about that?

I think internalists are satisfied with the information being in the back of your mind. You can talk about Aristotle without having correct informatio...

But could we back up and ask if there are rules about what kind of speaker can use words to refer? Can a parrot do it?

So if the concern about immigration didn't exist, would the British have voted to stay?

Hilary Clinton says immigration is the problem. Is Brexit a rightwing populist thing? Is Clinton right?

Counterfactuals and cases of error or ignorance seem to suggest that you don't have to have a definite description in mind. I think just access to som...

To quote Janus, they're all related: meaning, reference, and identity.

That's a professional assessment. :razz: That the individual can speak of X without a specific definite description in mind suggests that "meaning ain...

It's externalism.