Message: 5
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:28:52 -0000
From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>
Subject: RE: Re: Link on (Intensional) Masses
Nick:
--- In jboske@yahoogroups.com, "And Rosta" <a.rosta@l...> wrote:
My answer to that is that I can say {da poi -is-Nick} or {da poi
-is-gold} (is that which is Nick, is that which is gold), where
da is a bit of spacetime -- what I take to be an extensional thing
{da poi -is-xodium} would yield false
What I'm talking about is an extensional thing that is simply a
realization of a Kind. So yes, the quantification is the same,
but one claims a world-specific existence and the other doesn't
I don't get you. Sherlock Holmes also yields false in {da poi
-is-Sherlock} in this world. So, what, we've got intensions that
correspond to existences, and intensions that don't?
No. We have the Kinds, Mr Nick, Mr Sherlock, Mr Gold, Mr Xodium.
And we have the predicates "is that portion of the world that
manifests Mr Nick/Sherlock/Gold/Xodium, such that the remainder
does not manifest it". Those predicates have the same countability
properties as Kinds, but they make world-specific existential
claims. A Kind exists in every world it is manifested in, but
the manifestation exists in only its own world.