http://david.brax.nu/blog/philosophical-strategy/ David Brax, philosopher Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:55:06 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://david.brax.nu/blog/philosophical-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-6 David Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:24:54 +0000 http://david.brax.nu/?p=120#comment-6 Dennett makes a similar point in "consciousness explained", if I'm not mistaken. About someone who believes in Santa Claus, and thinks he plays second violin in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, hates kids and has never given away anything. While there probably is such a thing as being more or less recognisable referent of a term, it is a very vague and flexible notion. Which is not necessarily a bad thing when it comes to vague and flexible terms: we are trying to disambiguate, after all. David Lewis, of course, was the master of the genre. Dennett makes a similar point in ”consciousness explained”, if I’m not mistaken. About someone who believes in Santa Claus, and thinks he plays second violin in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, hates kids and has never given away anything. While there probably is such a thing as being more or less recognisable referent of a term, it is a very vague and flexible notion. Which is not necessarily a bad thing when it comes to vague and flexible terms: we are trying to disambiguate, after all. David Lewis, of course, was the master of the genre.

]]> http://david.brax.nu/blog/philosophical-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Jesper Östman Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:22:55 +0000 http://david.brax.nu/?p=120#comment-5 God? Yes, if you by 'god' mean my neighbors cat called "god"... God? Yes, if you by ‘god’ mean my neighbors cat called ”god”…

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