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Kitten's what?
September 21, 2018 at 10:00
Yep.
September 19, 2018 at 13:10
It's not you, it's me. I can do better. Anyway, as for my joke: What did one lesbian vampire say to the other? See you next month
September 19, 2018 at 11:54
Maybe I've misunderstood your question. Does this chip also stop me from dying from age-related issues like organ failure? So immortality but without ...
September 19, 2018 at 06:36
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roPQ_M3yJTA
September 18, 2018 at 17:35
Of course. Why wouldn't I? Also I'd like it to stop the ageing please.
September 18, 2018 at 14:49
Why what?
September 18, 2018 at 10:51
What about pre-writing? Are spoken proper names countable?
September 18, 2018 at 09:33
Your conclusion rests on a false premise and thus is to be ignored.
September 17, 2018 at 14:57
My counter proposal is to remove the shoutbox entirely.
September 17, 2018 at 11:12
Nah.
September 17, 2018 at 11:11
If I don't know the author of the book or Trump's wife then I won't know if referring to them as "Steve" or "Melanie" is a mistake or not, so the abov...
September 14, 2018 at 23:33
There's no failing to refer to someone. You are referring to someone, just using the wrong name. Trump referring to his wife as "Melanie" in a tweet w...
September 14, 2018 at 22:02
Sorry, on my phone and quoted the wrong part in the first paragraph. Fixed now.
September 14, 2018 at 20:38
I know that much. What I don’t know is who this Steve is, aside from allegedly the author. Is it someone whose legal name is Adam but who goes by a pe...
September 14, 2018 at 20:35
This causal theory of reference seems very problematic to me. Perhaps instead of telling me, the three of you write down “Steve is the author” on sepa...
September 14, 2018 at 20:21
How do your intentions fix the referents of the words I use, especially when I don’t know your intentions?
September 14, 2018 at 20:05
It is. You know it’s Adam but think wrongly that his pen name is Steve (just as “Mark Twain” was a pen name). Someone else thinks that it’s the author...
September 14, 2018 at 19:43
It’s the very thing being discussed. I just have a book and someone says to me “Steve is the author”. Somehow when I repeat the phrase I’m referring t...
September 14, 2018 at 19:32
Why him and not any other Steve? There are lots of people called Steve. And as I said before, you can refer to people using the wrong name. If I think...
September 14, 2018 at 19:26
So somehow your intention when you tell me that Steve is the author fixes the referant of the name “Steve” when I then tell someone else that Steve is...
September 14, 2018 at 19:05
Probably not at all plausible.
September 14, 2018 at 18:47
There are only 9 Republican-held Senate seats up for election. Best-case scenario the Democrats (and Independents) will have 58 seats.
September 14, 2018 at 18:40
But how have I come to refer to someone other than the author of the book? What is it about the name "Steve" that makes its referent someone other tha...
September 14, 2018 at 18:33
I wonder, is there a difference between "my friend's father authored the incompleteness theorems" and "the author of the incompleteness theorems is my...
September 14, 2018 at 14:45
I think this is an ambiguous description. By it do you mean that Sue believes that her friend's father is named "Kurt Gödel" or that her friend's fath...
September 14, 2018 at 14:42
Let's say that you know of two brothers, Adam and Steve. One of them wrote a book. You believe that Steve wrote the book when in fact Adam did. I've n...
September 14, 2018 at 14:27
I learned recently that the Queen had a homeopathy doctor. Crazy.
September 14, 2018 at 13:04
If your name is edited in after the initial post you won’t.
September 13, 2018 at 07:20
Impeachment requires 67 senators to convict which isn’t going to happen.
September 13, 2018 at 07:11
In: Hell  — view comment
If he's omniscient he should also know which of "I will create X" and "I will not create X" is true.
September 12, 2018 at 22:43
Project Gutenberg and Wikisource are probably the closest things we have to that.
September 12, 2018 at 15:36
No, the atheist just claims not to believe in the existence of one or more deities.
September 12, 2018 at 07:13
In: Hell  — view comment
How can you know that something will happen if that thing won't happen? It doesn't make sense to know that X is true and for X to be false.
September 11, 2018 at 20:36
In: Hell  — view comment
Knowledge entails truth, correct? If God knows that you will end up in hell then you will end up in hell. It doesn't make sense to suggest that God ca...
September 11, 2018 at 15:31
Regarding the de dicto/de re interpretation, suppose that my house is made of brick. As I understand your position, under a de dicto reading it is acc...
September 11, 2018 at 15:09
When an atheist claims to be an atheist he isn't claiming not to have a pursuit or interest which he follows with great devotion; he is claiming not t...
September 11, 2018 at 12:32
What are you talking about?
September 11, 2018 at 12:18
Elephants bury their dead, too. I wonder what kind of god(s) they believe in? My money's on Ganesha. :roll:
September 11, 2018 at 12:13
Respect for the dead.
September 11, 2018 at 12:06
What a bizarre non sequitur.
September 11, 2018 at 11:48
Burying your dead isn't an indicator that you believe in one or more deities.
September 11, 2018 at 11:26
We also refer to the same thing using the words "Donald Trump" and "the 45th President of the United States" but don't say that if Donald Trump wasn't...
September 11, 2018 at 11:00
It might be that it’s not a choice. We’re hardwired to want to help and not hurt each other. I might have the freedom to behave otherwise but not to w...
September 11, 2018 at 07:46
Why does the theist obey God? Is it because they want a reward or to avoid punishment? If so then I don’t think it right to say that they have morals....
September 11, 2018 at 07:17
It's not irrelevant. It's the central point. If we accept that we could be mistaken in thinking that water is H2O then we accept that "water" and "H2O...
September 10, 2018 at 21:24
No, because I'm stipulating that it's the same glass of water. It's just that in the actual world it's H2O and in a possible world it's H2O2. How is t...
September 10, 2018 at 20:05
And in my case the individual is "this glass of water" and the counterfactual property is the chemical composition. Well that's what I'm calling into ...
September 10, 2018 at 19:23
And if the Taj Mahal is made of bricks then it makes no sense to stipulate that in a possible world it's made of wood? Or if my name is Michael then i...
September 10, 2018 at 19:10
That it's a matter of stipulation is an answer I posed to my own question. But then that makes the notion of rigid designators philosophically uninter...
September 10, 2018 at 19:06