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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I wonder, is there a difference between "my friend's father authored the incompleteness theorems" and "the author of the incompleteness theorems is my...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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